The NNED keeps you in the know on what’s happening in behavioral health in the U.S. and around the world. Our collection of articles from multiple sources cover important headlines, recent findings, proposal calls, and more.
Study Calls for Giving Youth a Voice in Juvenile Justice Reform
02/14/17
Juvenile justice reform efforts should more directly engage youth who have had first-hand experience of the juvenile justice system and whose experience could help shape more effective prevention and diversion programs, a report from the Pittsburgh Fou …
Healthy People 2020 Midcourse Review
02/13/17
Healthy People 2020 is the nation’s health promotion and disease prevention initiative, with overarching goals and specific objectives for improving the health of all Americans. Healthy People 2020 objectives cover 42 topic areas and serve as a nationa …
How Recruiting Men as Ambassadors Can Combat Stigma about Mental Health in the Asian Community
02/10/17
A national research project has recruited more than 500 Toronto men of Asian descent to help reduce the stigma of mental illness in the Asian community. The three-year project, Strength in Unity, has trained the men to act as community ambassadors to t …
Local Children Benefit from Yoga-Infused Mental-Health Counseling
02/09/17
Ten tiny shoes sat in a pile outside the room, and the laughter of children burst through the door as Brianna Schiavoni and her class of children struck a dead bug pose on a Sunday afternoon last month. Some had spent their young lives battling depress …
To Reduce Mental Health Stigma among Veterans, Higher Education Must Be the Catalyst
02/08/17
In 2014, 55 U.S. military service members died fighting in Afghanistan. Today, an average of 20 veterans lose their lives every day to suicide, according to a recent report by the Department of Veteran Affairs. We do a spectacular job of providing our …
New Report Identifies Root Causes of Health Inequity, Outlines Solutions for Communities
02/08/17
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in fac …
Trauma-Informed Care Treats Injuries That Can Be Seen, Those That Can’t
02/07/17
The pain and aftershocks of traumatic injuries — physical and psychological — can linger for a lifetime and feed chronic illnesses. Certain traumas — a broken arm or battered face — are fairly easy for healthcare providers to recognize. But sometimes n …
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Theme is — I am my Brother/Sister’s Keeper: Fight HIV/AIDS
02/02/17
February 7, 2017 marks the 17th year for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), a national HIV testing and treatment community mobilization initiative targeted at Blacks in the United States and the Diaspora. NBHAAD was founded in 1999 as a na …
Survey: Texas Reduces Homelessness by 42 Percent Since 2007
02/01/17
Advocates for Texas’ homeless population are celebrating a federal report showing a significant reduction in the number of Texans who are homeless over the past decade. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual count, homele …
Fighting Opioid Abuse in Indian Country
01/31/17
Nationwide, Native Americans are at least twice as likely as the general population to become addicted to drugs and alcohol, and three times as likely to die of a drug overdose. In Washington state, Indians die of drug overdoses at a rate of 29 in 100, …