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Training the Community to Recognize and Respond to Crises
If you’re a first responder, teacher or local community service provider, becoming trained in suicide prevention can make a big impact on your community. It could even save someone's life. -
Implementing Trauma-Informed Care in Correctional Treatment and Supervision
This article provides a rationale for trauma-informed care (TIC) in correctional services, and challenges readers to think about offending behavior through the lens of trauma. Based on interdisciplinary research and cross-theoretical literature, TIC can help in our quest to develop relevant and successful programs, practices, and policies, and the best methods for delivering them. Using Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)’s core principles of TIC, this article will make suggestions for the implementation of trauma-informed service delivery and practices across correctional settings. The authors translate trauma-informed concepts into practice behaviors through the acronym SHARE (safety, hope, autonomy, respect, empathy), which honors the principles of TIC recommended by SAMHSA and the principles of effective correctional rehabilitation. TIC in corrections may help improve the desired outcomes of successful re-entry and reduced recidivism. -
Associations of adverse childhood experiences and suicidal behaviors in adulthood in a U.S. nationally representative sample
The current study extends the research linking adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to suicidal behaviors by testing these associations using a nationally representative sample, assessing for suicide ideation and attempts in adulthood, controlling for established risk factors for suicidality, and measuring a broad array of ACEs. -
Managing Mental Illness in Jails: Sheriffs Are Finding Promising New Approaches
This report summarizes a PERF conference that was one of the first major projects of our Sheriffs Initiative. We examined the issue of managing mental illness in jails because many sheriffs told us it is the most complex challenge they face today. Mental illness is not an activity that sheriffs’ offices historically needed to manage. But with the crisis in America’s mental health system today, sheriffs have had little choice but to step up and address this problem head on. -
Responding to Persons Experiencing a Mental Health Crisis
These documents provide guidance to law enforcement officers when responding to or encountering persons experiencing a mental health crisis. -
Ensuring Your Child is Supported at School
Most educators would be naturally inclined to accommodate, include and support your child experiencing a mental health condition. And it’s their job to do so. Your job is to enlist their help. -
New Initiative Helps Keep People with Mental Illness Out of Jail
NAMI is pleased to announce the launch of Serving Safely, a national initiative to help police and sheriffs’ departments effectively respond to mental health crises. -
Building Bonds Behind Bars with NAMI Peer-to-Peer
"I was inside the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women to co-lead a three-day NAMI Peer-to-Peer training. Knowing that I could leave didn’t help; I still felt trapped when I heard all those doors lock behind me." -
Understanding Self-Harm
Self-harm is a challenging mental health symptom to overcome—and lack of understanding only makes it that much more difficult to work through. So, let's learn more about this serious symptom. -
What To Do if Your Workplace is Anxiety-Inducing
Workplace anxiety happens to everyone. But for those who experience it regularly, it’s not something you should push aside or ignore. Work is important, but it’s not worth your mental health.