Rural Northern Nevada cloudscape in Lander County during the month of May.

2024 National Rural Health Day: Empowering Rural Resilience

By: Jalima Caulker, Jennifer Salach, National Mental Health and Substance Use
Policy Laboratory, Krishnan Radhakrishnan, Donelle Johnson and Humberto
Carvalho, National Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Laboratory

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.