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Mental Health Links - Rural Mental Health

Organizations

• National Association for Rural Mental Health (NARMH)

  http://www.narmh.org/
  The National Association for Rural Mental Health (NARMH) was founded in order to develop and enhance rural mental health and substance abuse services and to support mental health providers in rural areas.
  
  

• Frontier Mental Health Services Resource Network

  http://wiche.edu/mentalhealth/frontier/index.htm
  The Frontier Mental Health Services Resource Network collects, analyzes, and synthesizes knowledge regarding mental health services in rural areas. Also offers technical assistance to rural agencies and advocates on mental health/substance abuse topics.
  
  

Online Resources

• Office of Rural Mental Health Research (ORMHR), National Institute of Mental Health

  http://www.nimh.nih.gov/ormhr/
  ORMHR coordinates research within the National Institute of Mental Health related to conditions or services unique to rural areas.
  
  

• New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Subcommittee on Rural Issues

  http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/papers/Rural.pdf
  Background Paper
  
  

• Health Resources and Services Administration's Office of Rural Health Policy

  http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov
  The Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) promotes better health care service in rural America. The Office works both within government at Federal, State and local levels, and with the private sector (with associations, foundations, providers and community leaders) to seek solutions to rural health care problems.
  
  

• Community Correlates of Rural Youth Violence

  http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/violvict.html#193591
  Although decades of research have shed considerable light on the nature of the causes and correlates of juvenile delinquency, for the most part these studies have focused on youth crime in large metropolitan settings and generally overlooked delinquency in rural towns and smaller cities. This Bulletin addresses the lack of knowledge of rural youth violence by applying social disorganization theory to community correlates of youth violence in nonmetropolitan communities in Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, and South Carolina.
  
  

• Resource Center for Rural Behavioral Health

  http://www.apa.org/rural/homepage.html
  This web site, titled RuralPsych, is made available by the American Psychological Association in order to serve as a resource for providers, purchasers, and consumers of behavioral health care in frontier and rural areas.
  
  

• Southeastern Rural Mental Health Research Center

  http://minerva.acc.virginia.edu/~srmhrc/
  The overall mission of the SRMHRC is to improve the quality of mental health care for individuals with mental illnesses living in rural, impoverished areas of the South. Research is focused on the delivery of services and the improvement of patient outcomes.
  
  

• The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: Health Insurance Coverage in Rural America

  http://www.kff.org/uninsured/4093.cfm
  This chartbook presents analysis of national data on health insurance coverage based on a county's proximity to a large urban area.
  
  

• The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: The Uninsured in Rural America

  http://www.kff.org/uninsured/kcmu225202factsheet.cfm
  This fact sheet summarizes the number of uninsured individuals in rural America, who they are, and the barriers to coverage they experience.