SAMHSA’s Suicide Prevention Strategies for Underserved Youth discusses barriers that hinder youth’s access to prevention and intervention services. It also offers guidance on implementing and evaluating prevention programs.
For National Rural Health Day, SAMHSA celebrates the unique strengths of rural communities. SAMHSA empowers rural resilience by providing resources and tools that address behavioral health; supporting rural communities' ability to mitigate, adapt, and recover from stressors; promoting behavioral health equity; and building and retaining a diverse, robust, and resilient behavioral health workforce.
Nutritional psychology has recently been the focal point of research about how to manage behavioral health issues and maintain overall supportive health through diet. Participants will learn how to use a grocery list to manage symptoms of anxiety, depression, post-partum depression, and a variety of other behavioral health conditions. Experts provide practical tools for pursing wellness, with the end goal of providing hope, quality of life, and a shift in mindset from disease management to the framework of pursuing wellness.
The Reaching Rural Initiative is a one-year initiative. Over the course of the year, the selected individuals and teams will receive coaching and participate in skill-building workshops as well as virtual and in-person learning experiences.
FindTreatment.gov/es offers confidential and anonymous access to a comprehensive list of certified substance use and mental health treatment facilities, certified community behavioral health clinics, opioid treatment programs, buprenorphine practitioners, and healthcare centers across the United States and its territories.
National Recovery Month is an annual observance held every September to promote awareness of the power of recovery from mental health and substance use conditions. SAMHSA's Recovery Month Toolkit Celebrates National Recovery Month with SAMHSA's official toolkit. The toolkit contains key messaging and weekly themes, social media shareables, stickers, virtual backgrounds, email signatures, and hashtag guidance.