STATE AND FEDERAL
SAMHSA Awards $1M Healthy Transitions Grant to Oklahoma
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has awarded a $1 million grant to the State of Oklahoma to improve treatment access and support services for youths and young adults who have a serious emotional disturbance (SED) or a serious mental illness (SMI). “The nation’s young people face a number of challenges as they transition into adulthood – those challenges can be significantly more difficult when young people are also grappling with a serious mental health disorder,” said Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon, Ph.D., the U.S. Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use and former NRI Board Member. Read more.
Stanford Initiative Aims to Educate Media About Responsible Suicide Reporting
The Media and Mental Health Initiative in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University aims to promote public education about mental health and suicide through proactive, sustained engagement with content producers in the news media, entertainment media, and social media. Read more.
Pandemic Unveils Growing Suicide Crisis for Communities of Color
Overall suicide rates in the U.S. decreased in 2019 and 2020. National and local studies attribute the trend to a drop among white Americans, who make up the majority of suicide deaths. Meanwhile, rates for Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans—though lower than their white peers—continued to climb in many states. Read more.
Justice Counts Unveils a New 50-State Scan of Criminal Justice Data
The Justice Counts initiative unveiled a 50-state scan of publicly available, aggregate-level corrections and jails data. Each state’s data dashboard provides a central, practical resource for stakeholders to identify gaps and inconsistencies in data reporting across all 50 states. Read more.
CDC: Benzo-Involved Overdoses on the Rise
While absolute numbers of fatal benzodiazepine-involved overdoses remained small (less than 3,000 in 2020), according to a study published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the percentage increase from April to June 2019 to the same period in 2020 was not: 42.9%. Read more.
HRSA Providing $20 Million to Support Native Hawaiian Health Care
The Biden-Harris Administration announced today that it is providing $20 million to Native Hawaiian health care entities to aid their response to COVID-19. Read more.
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