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What Does OCD Look Like in the Classroom?
August 16, 2016 | Emily Taylor
In this blog post, Jerry Bubrick, PhD, of Child Mind Institute provides a list of behaviors for teachers and parents to watch for as possible indicators of OCD.
New Issue Brief: Caring for Children in the Midst of a Behavioral Health Crisis
August 15, 2016 | Emily Taylor
This issue brief provides an overview of Connecticut’s successful system of mobile crisis intervention (EMPS Crisis Intervention Services), which brings mental health clinicians to the location where the crisis is occurring. This brief includes recommendations for other states and communities looking to develop their own mobile crisis service system.
Read the Issue Brief on the mobile crisis intervention system»
Families In Rural Areas Using Telemedicine For Psychiatric, Specialty Care
July 27, 2016 | Emily Taylor
Forbes article on growing use of telemedicine – video-based care – for mental health services. Article cites recent research showing that the average age of patients using these services is 16 and they are being used mostly in rural areas where support is not otherwise available nearby.
Read the article on telemedicine for mental health care in rural areas»
New Resource: Assessing Readiness to Become a Parent Peer Support Provider
July 12, 2016 | Emily Taylor
A new TA Network tip sheet produced by FREDLA is designed to help determine when a parent is ready to become a parent peer support provider (PPSP). The practical resource includes a list of qualifications and skills, as well as interview questions and links to other information.
Access the Parent Peer Support Provider Readiness Tip Sheet»
NAMI Program for Middle and High Schoolers Increases Understanding of Mental Health
July 11, 2016 | Emily Taylor
NAMI’s Ending the Silence program is designed to help middle and high schoolers understand mental illness. The free classroom presentation helps raise awareness and change perceptions around mental health conditions.
Learn more and schedule a presentation in your community for the coming school year»
Foster Care Transition Toolkit Available
June 2, 2016 | Emily Taylor
The U.S. Department of Education has created a new toolkit with tips and resources to help foster youth access and navigate social, emotional, educational and skills barriers as they transition into adulthood.
Download the toolkit here >>.
Residential Schools: A Promising Alternative to Foster and Group Homes
May 16, 2016 | Emily Taylor
Profile of Crossnore School, a nonprofit residential foster care home in North Carolina, which is one of 100 organizations certified in the Sanctuary model of “integrated, trauma-informed, whole culture approach”.
Read more about it here >>.
New Child and Adolescent Mental Health Web Portal from NIMH
May 11, 2016 | Emily Taylor
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) recently introduced a new Child and Adolescent Mental Health Web Portal designed to help youth, caregivers, and professionals in understanding mental health conditions and disorders and the varying symptoms in children and adolescents throughout the developmental stages. This resource features helpful videos from experts, hotlines, and information on clinical trials.
Visit the site here >>.
Resource: National Child Traumatic Stress Network Treatment and Intervention Fact Sheets
April 21, 2016 | Emily Taylor
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network has released a set of “Training Guidelines” for interventions to treat a variety of child traumatic stress including Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. The new guidelines describe what training is recommended or required to provide, supervise, or train others in each model as well as how to communicate information about interventions to assist agencies in making decisions about their training needs.
Access the fact sheets here >>.
Texting Intervention May Increase Parent Engagement
April 19, 2016 | Emily Taylor
Results of a six-week intervention study show promising potential for mobile technology as a tool to increase parent-child activities. Parents of children from 6 months to 5 years old enrolled at Early Head Start and Head Start centers were sent text messages encouraging them to engage with their children around a variety of topics, and to take time for themselves. At the end of the six-week intervention, parents were surveyed and parents who received the text message intervention engaged in more activities (singing, pretend play, storytelling, etc.) than parents who did not receive the text messages.
Read more about the study here >>.