News Search Results for: Mental Health
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Date: Mar 19, 2024
Describes culturally relevant practices for mental healthcare for Native communities. Discusses therapy services available for students at the University of North Carolina and rural communities across North Carolina. Highlights health disparities and factors contributing to those disparities. Source: The Daily Tar Heel.
...Mental Health Disparities in Tribal Communities --- Describes culturally relevant practices for mental healthcare for Native...
Date: Apr 10, 2024
Discusses mental healthcare access for children in Michigan schools, noting that workforce shortages most impact rural areas. Discusses funding, recruitment and retention, and training. Source: The Mining Journal.
...Health workforce supply and demand · Licensure and certification of health professionals · Mental health · Recruitment and retention...
Date: Apr 9, 2024
Highlights a mental telehealth service in Nebraska that increases access to care in rural areas. Patients are able to receive a behavioral health assessment in their local hospital, which can be quicker and more convenient when services are multiple hours away. Source: KOLN.
...Mental Health Gap in Rural Communities --- Highlights a mental telehealth service in Nebraska that increases...
Date: Apr 8, 2024
Highlights a new mobile medical unit expanding mental healthcare access for veterans in Montana and Wyoming. The unit is the first offering transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy, a treatment typically given daily for multiple days. Receiving treatment through the mobile unit reduces transportation barriers for rural and frontier veterans. Source: VA News.
...Mental Health Service --- Highlights a new mobile medical unit expanding mental healthcare access for veterans...
Date: Mar 22, 2024
Discusses suicide among rural men in Michigan, noting the issues of stigma and mental healthcare access. Discusses the results of an intervention targeting men and policy measures building on those successes. Source: The 'Gander.
...Mental Health --- Discusses suicide among rural men in Michigan, noting the issues of stigma and mental...
Date: Mar 28, 2024
Highlights a helpline offered for farmers in the Texas panhandle following recent wildfires. Source: Public News Service.
...preparedness and response · Farmers and farmworkers · Mental health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Texas...
Date: Mar 27, 2024
Describes the Minnesota Bienvenido program, which provides support for rural Latino workers who are in high stress jobs with few support structures. Installments help participants connect with the community and learn skills to help manage stress and other emotions. Source: MinnPost.
...Mental Health Care for Minnesota's Migrant Workers --- Describes the Minnesota Bienvenido program, which provides...
Date: Apr 8, 2024
Describes the impact of a new federal grant on telehealth access in rural Alabama. Notes that substance use disorder and mental health disorder healthcare in particular is expected to increase. Source: Alabama Daily News.
...Tagged as Access · Funding · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth · Alabama...
Date: Apr 23, 2024
Announces the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (National Strategy) and the associated Federal Action Plan, a plan developed by 10 federal departments. The National Strategy offers recommendations for addressing needs for at-risk populations. Highlights suicide rate disparities for various race and ethnicities. Includes links to the National Strategy, the Federal Action Plan, and other resources for mental healthcare access and substance abuse services. Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
...mental healthcare access and substance abuse services. Tagged as Health disparities · Mental health · Policy · Substance...
Date: Mar 12, 2024
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is requesting information to assist in the development of a national standard of practice for VA peer specialists. Outlines the proposed national standard of practice for VA peer specialists, who are Veterans who self-identify with a lived experience of recovery from a mental health condition and have been professionally trained to help other Veterans with similar experiences. Comments are due by May 13, 2024. Source: Federal Register.
...health condition and have been professionally trained to help other Veterans with similar experiences. Comments are due by May 13, 2024. Tagged as Behavioral health workforce · Mental...