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Rigorous Evaluation in Tribal MIECHV: A Series of Briefs
Discusses the process of developing an evaluation program for Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program grantees. Highlights evaluation challenges, methods for meeting evaluation requirements, and engaging tribal communities, among other issues, in a series of 5 briefs.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 08/2020
Sponsoring organizations: Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation
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Strategies for the Delivery of Behavioral Health Crisis Services in Rural and Frontier Areas of the U.S.
Report highlights the challenges of providing behavioral health crisis services to rural and frontier communities. Details the barriers to crisis service delivery such as lack of transportation, travel distance, and broadband access, among others. Includes a discussion on the effect of COVID-19 pandemic rural crisis service delivery.
Author(s): Kristin A. Neylon
Date: 08/2020
Sponsoring organization: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
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Policy Goals to Improve Behavioral Health Needs of Individuals, Employers and Communities in Rural New Mexico
Report examining behavioral health workforce needs and the growing older adult population in rural New Mexico. Presents data analysis, survey results, and group discussion with stakeholders in Grant, Socorro, Sierra, Valencia, and Catron counties. Offers policy recommendations related to training and certification of behavioral healthcare workers.
Author(s): Susan Wilger, Anne Hayes Egan, Alexis Brandt, Micaela Imar de la Rosa
Date: 08/2020
Sponsoring organization: Center for Health Innovation
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Arizona's American Indian Trauma Report 2020
Identifies the disproportionate impact of trauma on Native Americans in Arizona in order to target interventions to improve injury prevention programs and reduce traumatic injuries. Identifies patient demographics, trauma risk factors such as alcohol or drug use, injury characteristics, access to care, and mortality rates.
Date: 08/2020
Sponsoring organization: Arizona Department of Health Services
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Native American Youth: Agencies Incorporated Almost All Leading Practices When Assessing Grant Programs That Could Prevent or Address Delinquency
Examines federal financial assistance programs that could prevent or address juvenile delinquency in tribal communities, including 25 programs through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Highlights substance misuse and mental health issues as risk factors to juvenile delinquency and discusses federal and tribal-operated Youth Regional Treatment Centers. Explores how federal agencies incorporated best practices into the performance measurement and program evaluation of the grant programs.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 08/2020
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Rural Versus Urban Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence-Related Emergency Department Visits, 2009-2014
Examines differences in prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV)-related incidents, using a sample of 156,945 emergency department (ED) visits by people ages 15-64. Features demographics with breakdowns by urban or rural residence, and statistics on IPV-related ED visits with breakdowns by 6 categories of population density.
Author(s): Maria J. Perez-Patron, Nancy R. Downing, Nora Montalvo-Liendo, Brandie D. Taylor
Date: 08/2020
Sponsoring organization: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
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Mental Health in Rural America
Discusses mental health issues among farmers and ranchers. Highlights some of the stressors for farmers and farm families, as well as strategies and resources to help cope with farm-related stress.
Date: 08/2020
Sponsoring organization: American Farm Bureau
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Rural EMS COVID-19 Preparedness Checklist
Provides a checklist for rural response agencies to evaluate their current level of preparedness and identify areas that need additional action to better respond to COVID-19. Covers planning, strategy, personal protective equipment and supplies, workforce and recruiting, and funding.
Date: 08/2020
Sponsoring organizations: American Ambulance Association, Federal Healthcare Resilience Working Group
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Support for Transition from Adolescent to Adult Health Care Among Adolescents With and Without Mental, Behavioral, and Developmental Disorders — United States, 2016–2017
Examines whether adolescents, including adolescents with diagnosed mental, behavioral, and developmental disorders (MBDDs), receive the recommended guidance on transitioning from pediatric to adult healthcare. Includes data for adolescents living within a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and outside an MSA.
Author(s): Rebecca T. Leeb, Melissa L. Danielson, Rebecca H. Bitsko, et al.
Citation: MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report), 69(34), 1156-1160
Date: 08/2020
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Nonfatal Drug and Polydrug Overdoses Treated in Emergency Departments — 29 States, 2018–2019
Reports on changes in rates and proportions of suspected nonfatal drug and polydrug overdoses treated in the emergency department (ED) between 2018 and 2019, based on data from 29 states. Includes data for urban and rural counties on ED visits for opioids, cocaine, amphetamines, and benzodiazepines, as well as for opioids in combination with each of the other types of drugs.
Author(s): Stephen Liu, Lawrence Scholl, Brooke Hoots, Puja Seth
Citation: MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report), 69(34), 1149-1155
Date: 08/2020
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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