The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration sponsors Mental Health Awareness Month in May to disseminate knowledge and understanding of key behavioral health issues.
Below is a list of SAMHSA’s Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center (EBPRC) resources that you can share with your networks:
- Practical Guide for Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach
- Advisory: Identification and Management of Mental Health Symptoms and Conditions Associated with Long COVID
- Addressing Burnout in the Behavioral Health Workforce through Organizational Strategies
- Advisory: Expanding Implementation of Mental Health Awareness Training in the Workplace
- Psychosocial Interventions for Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness
- Prevention and Treatment of Anxiety, Depression, and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among College Students
- Telehealth for the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
- Treatment Considerations for Youth and Young Adults with Serious Emotional Disturbances and Serious Mental Illnesses and Co-occurring Substance Use
- Treatment for Suicidal Ideation, Self-harm, and Suicide Attempts Among Youth
- Comparison of the Safety Planning Intervention With Follow-up vs Usual Care of Suicidal Patients Treated in the Emergency Department
- First-Episode Psychosis and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders
- Advancing Comprehensive School Mental Health Systems
- Intensive Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Complex Mental and Substance Use Disorders: State and Community Profiles
- Guidance on Strategies to Promote Best Practice in Antipsychotic Prescribing for Children and Adolescents ·
- A Practical Guide to Psychiatric Advance Directives
- Civil Commitment and the Mental Health Care Continuum: Historical Trends and Principles for Law and Practice
- After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools, Second Edition
- Understanding A First Episode Of Psychosis Young Adult: Get the Facts
- Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs and Practices
- Strategies to Improve Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents
- Strategies to De-Escalate Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients
For additional resources that focus on substance use disorder and mental illness prevention, treatment, and recovery, please visit the EBPRC website.