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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/14/new-emphasis-mental-health-cops-other-officers/102677982/
August
NEW
8/31 - Stepping
Up Suicide Prevention
NEW
8/31 - Smartphones,
Evening Light, and Childhood Bipolar Disorder
8/31 - International
Overdose Awareness Day
NEW
8/30 -
OPP
announces review, enhancement to mental health strategy
following member suicides
Survivors
of Suicide Loss
After
a Suicide Resource Directory
8/30 - Alert: Secretary
DeVos and President Trump could allow school districts to
divert federal funding meant for mental health services and
other school improvements and use it instead to arm
teachers.
8/29 - More
Mental-Health Services Would Make Pennsylvania Schools
Safer, Report Says
NEW
8/29 -
Youth
Mental Health Call for
Applications
NEW
8/28 -
Panel:
Doctors Should Focus on Preventing Depression in Pregnant
Women, New Moms
Draft
Recommendation Statement Perinatal Depression: Preventive
Interventions
NEW 8/28
- Chickasaw
Nation Honored for Zero Suicide Implementation
Efforts
NEW
8/28
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Preteen suicides are rare, but numbers are on the
rise
NEW
8/27 -
PENNSYLVANIA:
Making Schools Safer: Trained Security, Attention to Mental
Health among Top
Recommendations Full
report here
(66 page PDF)
NEW
8/27 -
Suicide
By Opioid: New Research Suggests Overdoses Should Be
Classified As Self-Harm
Mortality
in the United States from self-injury surpasses diabetes:
a prevention imperative
8/24 - VISN
2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention accepting
applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships
8/24 - Autism
Can Mask the Warning Signs of
Suicide
8/24 - Characteristics
of Crisis Line Users Who Died by
Suicide
8/24 - Six
Ways to Help Someone Who Lost a Loved One to
Suicide
8/24 - Trump
Signs Law Giving Suicide Lifeline a
Makeover
8/23 - Psychiatry
Rounds: Workplace Mental Health and
More
NEW
8/20 -
New
Behavioral Health Resources Available for First
Responders
Service
to Self: Behavioral Health for Fire and EMS
Personnel
Learn
more about all of SAMHSA's training courses for first
responders.
Effects
of Trauma on First Responders: Volume 14, Issue 1 —
2018 (21 page
PDF)
First
Responders: Behavioral Health Concerns, Emergency
Response, and Trauma
(15 page PDF)
NEW
8/17 -
Top
10 Must Haves for your Behaviorial Health Solutions
Provider
8/17 - Using
Electronic Health Records to Predict Suicide Attempts and
Deaths in Outpatient Care
8/16 - Why
Do We Value Achievement Over Mental Health? A High School
Senior Speaks Out
8/16 - Mini
Quiz: Poverty, Inequality, and Mental
Illness
8/16 - At
the Heart of Depression: 3 New
Studies
8/16 - What
Psychiatrists Need to Know: Patients in the Emergency
Department
NEW
8/16 -
2018
Children's Mental Health
Report Get the
report here
(2 page PDF)
Behavioral
Treatment for Kids With
Anxiety
Best
Medications for Kids With
Anxiety
Why
Childhood Anxiety Often Goes Undetected (and the
Consequences)
How
to Avoid Passing Anxiety on to Your
Kids
Panic
Attacks and How to Treat
Them
What
Is Social Anxiety?
NEW
8/16 -
Four
Tips to Finding Grants for your Behavioral Health
Group
NEW
8/15 -
CANADA:
New Suicide Prevention Project Targets High-Risk Nunavut
Residents
In
2008 the Government of Nunavut, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.,
Embrace Life Council, and the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police partnered to create the Nunavut Suicide Prevention
Strategy.
8/14 - Mental
Health Checklist: 7 Parent Tips on How to Prepare Your
Student for College-
8/14 - The President signed the National Suicide Hotline
Improvement Act (H.R. 2345) today.
NEW
8/14 - Donated
school books to focus on feelings
Preventing
suicide among youth
NEW
8/14 - SCOTLAND: Pharmacists
to receive ‘mandatory’ suicide prevention
training
Scotland's
Suicide Prevention Action Plan
(25 pag
PDF)
8/13 - Cultural
and Population Sensitivity in Disaster Behavioral Health
Programs
The
dialogue (29 page
PDF)
NEW
8/12 - New
suicide-prevention efforts target La Plata, Montezuma
counties
8/10 - MISSOURI:
Children's Mercy Hospital Now Adding Suicide Prevention
Questions to Check-Ups
- SPRC -KMBC 9 News
Children
Ages 12 and Younger
- SPRC
Adolescents
- SPRC
8/10 -
Suicide Prevention Ideas for
Action - SPRC (2
page PDF)
8/10 - Help
the Helpers: Taking Time for
Self-Care SPRC
8/10 - COLORADO:
Longmont Library Launches Well-Being Bags to Spark
Conversations about Mental Health
Supporting
Action for Mental Health
8/7 - Measuring
TIC Practices, Efforts, and Initiatives
8/3 - 8/6 - Firearms
Storage in Homes with Children at Risk for
Self-Harm SPRC
8/3 - Teen
Suicide Risk May Be Lower With Intense Team-Based
Therapy SPRC Abstract
8/3 - NORTH
DAKOTA: Law Enforcement Agencies Use New Tool to Prevent
Officer Suicide SPRC
Interactive
Screening Program
8/3 - RHODE
ISLAND: Rhode Island Law Aims to Prevent Suicides at Public
Colleges SPRC Virtual
learning lab for campus suicide
prevention. (34 page PDF)
8/3 -
Virtual Learning Lab: State Suicide
Prevention APRC
8/3 - Firearms
Storage in Homes with Children at Risk for
Self-Harm
8/2 - Two
Misleading Myths Regarding “Medical Aid in
Dying” -
Psychiatric Timese (Also, see 7/24 Millard Salter’s
Last Day)
8/1 - Kids
Need Play and Recess. Their Mental Health May Depend on
It.
8/1 - House and Senate have passed the National Suicide
Hotline Improvement Act. Awaiting the President's signature.
AFSP
8/1 - Talking
About Suicide in Schools
AFSP
8/1 - The
Most Important Conversation on
Campus AFSP
8/1 - Returning
to School After a Suicide Loss: For
Teens AFSP
8/1 - Connect
Students to Mental Health Services through AFSP’s
Interactive Screening
Program (ISP for
Institutions of Higher Education) AFSP
8/1 - Bring
‘It’s Real: College Students and Mental
Health’ to a Campus Near
You AFSP
8/1 - Back
in Session: How to Take Care of Your Mental Health in the
Classroom - AFSP
August - 3
Things Mental Health Professionals Need to Know about
Telemedicine: A Game Changer for Mental Health
Services (Free 6
page eBook)
August - Interactive
Screening Program
Happened
in August
8/30 - Webnar 3-4p ET
Using
Case Management Data To Inform Practice & Develop Campus
Trainings For Behavioral
Intervention
8/30 - Webnar 3-4p ET 2-Part
Webinar Series: Case Management & Behavioral
Intervention
NEW
8/27
-
Suicide By Opioid: New Research Suggests Overdoses Should Be
Classified As Self-Harm
Mortality
in the United States from self-injury surpasses diabetes:
a prevention imperative
Concepts
Matter: Ending the Self-injury Mortality (SIM) Epidemic
is an Early 21st Century Imperative
NEW
8/27 -
Making
schools safer: trained security, attention to mental health
among top recommendations
Full Report
(64 page PDF)
8/27 - A Parent's
Guide to Resilience, An Evening
Event by Gants Pass School DIstrict and the Why Try
Organization, 6:30-7:30p, 725 NE Dean Drive, Grants
Pass 541-474-5700 or dwerner@grantspass.k12.or.us
8/23 -
Webnar 3-4p ET Mental
Health Issues On Campus: Understanding Data, Recognizing Red
Flags & Assisting Students In
Distress
8/23 - Webnar
12M-1:30pm PDT Comprehensive
Suicide Prevention – It’s More than a Mental
Health Concern
Register
8/23 -
Webnar 4-5:30p
ET Suicide
Prevention and the Collaborative Care
Model
Register
Podcast Episode: Public Health Approaches to Suicide
Prevention
NEW
8/23
- Public
Health Approaches to
Suicide
NEW
8/14 -
Scotland:
Pharmacists
to receive ‘mandatory’ suicide prevention
training
Scotland’s
Suicide Prevention Action
Plan
(25 page PDF)
Due 8/10 - Indian
Education--Demonstration Grants for Indian
Children
8/9 - 9a-5p Youth Mental Health First Aid training - Gold
Beach High School (Oregon). $25 lunch included. Register
maggie.house@oregonstate.edu.or.
or 541-247-6672
8/8 - SAMHSA) is hosting its annual Voice Awards 6-9:30p PT,
UCLA's Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA Register
8/7 - Webnar 1-2P ET Threat
To Self & Others: Navigating Student Removal In A Manner
That Reduces Legal Risk, Maintains Due Process &
Supports Student Rights
Webnar 3-4p ET - Early
Alert Case Study: Effective, Data-informed Intervention
& Assessment Strategies
8/5-25 - Three week Rouge Youth Transitions early
intervention outdoor youth program for middle school
students. For more information: KARI.KINGSOLVER@dhsoha.state.or.us
8/2 - Webnar - 1-2p ET 2-Part
Webinar Series: Case Management & Behavioral
Intervention
8/2 - 8/9 - Webnar 12m-1p PST Using
An Online Platform For Mental Health Outreach &
Intervention
8/2 - Webnar 12m-1:30a PST 10
Essential Components Of An Evidence-Based Behavioral
Intervention & Case Management Program
Grants
(Open)
8/31 - Application Deadline
Oregon Health Authority - Public Health Division is offering
mini-grants of up to $7,000 to agencies able to solicit
feedback from people most impacted by health disparities,
including people of color, people who identify as LGBTQ,
people with low-income, and people living with disabilities.
Christy.j.hudson@state.or.us
Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation: Evidence for Action:
Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of
Health
Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation: Pioneering Ideas Brief
Proposals
SAMHSA
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion
Grants
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