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News by Topic: Behavioral health

Sep 11, 2024 - Presents overview of a project led by the Marshfield Clinic Health System to install naloxone boxes in rural communities across Wisconsin. Notes that the project was funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Includes an interview with project leadership on how locations were selected, partnerships with schools, program impacts, navigating stigma, and additional harm reduction initiatives.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio
Sep 11, 2024 - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is seeking comments on revisions to the client-level Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), which is used to instrument to collect performance and program monitoring data of its substance use services grant programs. Comments are due by November 12, 2024.
Source: Federal Register
Sep 10, 2024 - Highlights efforts by the Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) to address high suicide rates in the remote Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region. Details the development of culturally-relevant programming which builds upon community strengths and traditions. Discusses funding barriers and efforts to implement the program model in other communities, including military settings.
Source: NPR
Sep 6, 2024 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will hold a virtual public meeting of the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) on October 16-17, 2024. The CPSTF is charged with identifying community preventive programs, services, and policies that increase healthy longevity and improve quality of life while saving money. Agenda items include deliberation on systematic reviews of the literature on substance use, injury prevention, and social determinants of health. Registration is required.
Source: Federal Register
Sep 6, 2024 - Describes a drug overdose prevention program in rural Wisconsin. NaloxBoxes offer access to naloxone and are available at schools and community institutions around Wisconsin.
Sep 5, 2024 - A new injury prevention research center funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been established at the University of Washington. The Harborview Injury & Prevention Research Center will focus on 4 key topics: overdose prevention in rural areas, adverse childhood experiences, enhancing school safety, and fall prevention for rural American Indian and Alaska Native adults.
Source: UW Medicine Newsroom
Sep 3, 2024 - Outlines a new coalition of public universities working together to develop resources to prevent substance use and support behavioral health among rural youth. Notes that rural youth display similar rates of behavioral health issues as urban youth, but may have less access to prevention and support services.
Source: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Sep 2, 2024 - Highlights mental health challenges for farmers and efforts across the Midwest to connect agricultural workers and their families with mental health resources. Discusses stigma, loneliness, and rural mental health workforce shortages.
Source: Reasons to Be Cheerful
Aug 28, 2024 - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will hold a virtual public meeting of the Tribal Technical Advisory Committee (TTAC) on September 17, 2024. SAMHSA will also hold a joint virtual public meeting with the TTAC and Indian Health Service (IHS) National Tribal Advisory Committee on Behavioral Health (NTAC) on September 18, 2024. Meeting information Meeting information will be posted on the SAMHSA Council's website. Registration is required.
Source: Federal Register
Aug 26, 2024 - Notice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announcing the reorganization of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). The NCIPC established the Behavioral Integration Branch. Among other things the Behavioral Integration Branch plans, directs, and supports epidemiological analysis, applied research, and demonstration projects to advance the integration of behavioral health (including suicide prevention) strategies with healthcare delivery and community behavioral health services; provides technical assistance to local, state, territorial, and tribal agencies to advance the integration of surveillance and suicide prevention strategies with healthcare delivery and community behavioral health services; develops guidance to reduce or mitigate risk factors and increase protective factors as appropriate; and disseminates scientific findings, evidence-based prevention strategies, and suicide prevention guidelines. This reorganization is effective August 21, 2024.
Source: Federal Register