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A Training Guide for the Early Childhood Services Community, 2005 Series,Volume 2: A Training Guide for the Early Childhood Services Community (SVP05-0151B)
Information Kit
Annotated Bibliography for Managed Behavioral Health Care (SMA00-3424)
Report
This annotated bibliography covers fifteen areas: (1) benefit and system design; (2) capitation; (3) community mental health services; (4) diagnosis-related groups (DRGs); (5) economics, forecasting, and pricing; (6) employee assistance programs (EAPs); (7) health maintenance organizations (HMOs); (8) law and ethics; (9) provider issues; (10) public sector; (11) quality assurance and outcomes; (12) special populations; (13) substance abuse; (14) training and education; and (15) utilization management. 2000. 178 pp.
Center for Mental Health Services: Overview (KEN95-0000)
Fact Sheet
This fact sheet describes the mission of the Center for Mental Health Services and provides an overview of the Center’s offices and divisions. 1998. 4 pp.
CMHS Special Programs Development Branch (KEN99-0075)
Fact Sheet
This fact sheet describes the goals, activities, achievements, and populations served by the Special Programs Development Branch. 2003. 3 pp.
Community Action Kit (Contains 5 Pamphlets relating to the Youth Violence Prevention Initiative) (SVP-0063)
Pamphlet
These 5 pamphlets address topics of interest to communities that can help them develop and implement an evidence-based youth violence prevention program. Each pamphlet blends theory with the experiences of school violence prevention grantees to provide invaluable information to communities and schools.
Cultural Competence Standards in Managed Care (SMA00-3457)
Booklet
In response to the dearth of broad-based, culturally competent care within the behavioral managed care sector, CMHS sought to develop and disseminate cultural competence standards for managed care mental health services to improve the availability of high-quality services for "four underserved/underrepresented racial/ethnic groups" - notably, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans/Alaska Natives, and Asian/Pacific Islander Americans. 2000. 80 pp.
Culture Card: American Indian and Alaska Native: A Guide to Build Cultural Awareness (SMA08-4354)
Card
The purpose of this guide was originally to provide basic information for federal disaster responders and other federal health providers who may be deployed or otherwise assigned to provide or coordinate mental health services in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. After one year of availability to only federal employees, the value of this guide to non-federal employees who work with AI/AN communities in a variety of settings was acknowledged and the Culture Card is now available to the general public. The guide is intended to serve as a general briefing to enhance cultural competence while providing services to AI/AN communities. (Cultural competence is defined as the ability to function effectively in the context of cultural differences.) It provides basic information on common AI/AN issues. Due to the diversity of tribes in the nation, the authors suggest users keep in mind that it should be supplemented by a more specific local orientation or training provided by a member of the particular community which user of the card is preparing to interact with. This is a pocket sized guide with fold out sections that cover the following topics: About This Guide, Myths and Facts, Tribal Sovereignty, Regional Cultural Differences, Cultural Customs, Spirituality, Communication Styles, Role of Veterans and Elders, Strengths in AI/AN Communities, Health and Wellness Challenges, Self-Awareness, and Etiquette Do's and Don'ts.
Developing Cultural Competence in Disaster Mental Health Programs (SMA03-3828)
Booklet
Designed to supplement information already available through CMHS, SAMHSA, and other sources, Developing Cultural Competence in Disaster Mental Health Programs highlights important common issues relating to cultural competence and to disaster mental health. Disaster mental health providers and workers can use and adapt the guidelines set forth in this document to meet the unique characteristics of individuals and communities affected directly or indirectly by a full range of natural and human-made disasters.
First National Conference: The Journey of Native American People with Serious Mental Illness (CS 00-0003)
Summary
This report describes the first national conference on Native American people with serious mental illness. Describes meeting of State, tribal, and Federal mental health officials; providers; families; and consumers to tackle mental health delivery issues for Native Americans and to overcome barriers for developing coordinated, efficient, and culturally relevant systems of care. 1993. 12 pp.
Gathering of Native Americans (GONA) (BKD-367)
Article
The Federal government through the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) has initiated a Community Partnership Training (CCPT) Project to assist Community Partnership grantees in support of community efforts to reduce and prevent alcohol and other drug abuse. The Native American component of the culturally specific institutes is called the "Gathering of Native Americans" (GONA).
HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence Health Outcomes & Cost Study - Program Summary (CMH99-5022)
Summary
The HIV/AIDS Cost Study is designed to identify the costs associated with treatment and to determine if an integrated approach improves adherence to, and costs of, treatment. This report contains a section on a project at the University of Missouri at St. Louis on the use of integrated treatment for HIV-infected persons with dual diagnoses.
Mental Health Care Provider Education in HIV/AIDS Program II (KEN98-0059)
Summary
This brochure presents a summary of a program that helps traditional mental health providers, other first line providers, and nontraditional providers–including clergy and alternative care workers–increase their understanding of how to better address the psychosocial and neuropsychiatric needs of people living with and/or affected by HIV/AIDS. 1998. 4 pp.
Mental Health HIV Services Collaborative (MHHSC) Program (KEN02-0132)
Article
Twenty-one community-based organizations received five-year grants to expand their current service capacity to reach and provide coordinated mental health and other health and support services to members of these groups experiencing HIV/AIDS, and to evaluate the effectiveness of these services.
Mental Health Providers in Rural and Isolated Areas: Final Report of the Ad Hoc Rural Mental Health Provider Work Group (SMA98-3166)
Booklet
This report of results from the Rural Mental Health Provider Work Group should be interpreted as a relatively independent confirmation of the seriousness of the problem and the types of strategies that must be implemented in order to improve the system of health, mental health, and substance care for rural Americans. 1997. 40pp.
Mental Health, United States, 1998 (SMA99-3285)
Book/Monograph
This book summarizes statistical information related to health care reform, including managed care and policy considerations, lessons learned from behavioral managed care approaches, and the status of managed behavioral health care in America. It includes information on epidemiological data, mental health in Medicare and Medicaid programs, and mental health services in rural areas. 249 pp (The full text of this document is available in hardcopy only, but the executive summary is available on-line.)
Mental Health, United States, 2000 (SMA01-3537)
Book/Monograph
The preparation of Mental Health, United States, 2000 presented interesting challenges: How could we encapsulate the current status of mental health services for present and future readers? Of equal importance, how could we describe the current development of mental health statistics? To resolve these issues, we construct Section 1 with an editorial on likely future directions and a chapter on where the field has been over the past 100 years. These pieces set the essential context for Section 2, on the current status of mental health statistics; and Section 3, on the current status of mental health services. Each of these sections is new to Mental Health, United States, 2000. Section 4, as in all previous editions, updates the National statistical picture for mental health
Mental Health, United States, 2002 (SMA04-3938)
Book/Monograph
Mental Health, United States, 2002
Mental Health: Culture, Race, Ethnicity - Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Executive Summary (SG-CRE-EXEC)
Book/Monograph
This report is a supplement to the first ever Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. This supplement covers the four most recognized racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States.
Mental Health: Culture, Race, Ethnicity - Supplement to Mental Health: Report of the Surgeon General - (with Executive Summary) (SMA01-3613)
Book/Monograph
This supplement to "Mental Health: Report of the Surgeon General" discusses the barriers to services that are encountered by persons of certain social and cultural groups.
Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders, 2005 Series, Volume 1: Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (SVP05-0151)
Book/Monograph
Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-Cultural Strengths and Challenges in Implementing A System of Care Model in American Indian Communities, 2000 Series (Vol 1) (CA-PROM00v1)
Book/Monograph
This publication examines the promising practices of five American Indian children's mental health projects that integrate traditional American Indian helping and healing methods with the systems of care model are discussed in this publication.

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