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What Happens When Your Child’s School Reports Suicidal Ideation
If your child experiences suicidal ideation at school, you probably have questions. Here are some answers from a licensed professional school counselor. -
The Availability of Peer Support and Disparities in Outpatient Mental Health Service Use Among Minority Youth with Serious Mental Illness
Found that having a peer specialist on staff was associated with increases in outpatient service use in both counties, and with reduced disparities in service use among Black and Latinx youth in Los Angeles County. The availability of a peer specialist with racial/ethnic concordance was also associated with greater outpatient service use among Latinx youth in both counties. These results suggest that peer support services are a promising approach to reducing the documented low rate of continued engagement in mental health services among youth -
NAMICon 2020 Virtual Event Honors Mental Health Leaders
During NAMICon 2020, one of the nation’s largest gatherings of mental health advocates, NAMI presented awards honoring exemplary leadership at the national, state and local level. -
Register for SMI Adviser’s Webinar On Criminal Justice Involvement
Register for SMI Adviser’s free webinar: “Supporting Clients Who Have Been Justice-Involved” on Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET. -
Justice-Involved Youth and Trauma-Informed Interventions
Professionals working in the juvenile justice system must consider the impact of trauma on justice-involved youth when creating interventions and policies. Most youths involved with the justice system have a history of childhood adversity. Juvenile justice service systems should work to implement trauma-informed interventions that address the needs of youth with mental health and trauma related disorders. The adoption of a trauma-informed approach throughout the juvenile justice system and the implementation of interventions for juvenile offenders with a history of trauma exposure has enormous potential benefits for justice-involved youth, the staff who work with them, their families, and the community at large. -
Register For A SMI Adviser Webinar On What Happens When Your Patient with SMI is Arrested
Register for SMI Adviser’s free webinar: “What Happens When Your Patient with SMI Is Arrested?” on Thursday, Nov. 21 from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST. -
Mental Health and Foster Care
Up to 80 percent of children in foster care have significant mental health issues, compared to approximately 18-22 percent of the general population -
Beyond Suspensions: Examining School Discipline Policies and Connections to the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students of Color with Disabilities
For this report, the Commission investigated school discipline practices and policies impacting students of color with disabilities and the possible connections to the school-to-prison pipeline, examined rates of exclusionary discipline, researched whether and under what circumstances school discipline policies unfairly and/or unlawfully target students of color with disabilities, and analyzed the federal government’s responses and actions on the topic -
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. -
Talking About Mental Health Should Start Early
"Maybe if I’d learned more about mental health when I was a teenager, I could have been saved twenty years of struggling with mental illness in silence. That’s why I became a presenter for NAMI Ending the Silence."
