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By Andrea Schneider, PsychCentral, February 7, 2020 Did you know that the second leading cause of death in people ages 15-22 is suicide (ACHA, 2020)? Those are some sobering statistics. After a recent move from S CA to N Ca, I am currently serving in a new role in which I am the Lead Counselor on a college campus for this age range. Unfortunately, those statistics don’t lie. I am deeply involved in creating new programs, strategies, and direct clinical support for the students my campus...

The Spread Positivity campaign for high schools specifically in low socioeconomic areas was created to address the negative mental health outcomes that adverse childhood experiences have the potential to cause. According to the CDC-Kaiser ACEs Study, adverse childhood experiences are especially prevalent in areas of low socioeconomic status because these communities have a higher proportion of factors such as reported abuse, neglect, incarceration, parental separation, and mental illness. It...

Systematic racism is at the core of mental health disparities and social determinants of mental health (SDoMH).Upstream factors obstruct patient access to needed and appropriate assessment, timely intervention, with treatment for these populations often reflecting poorer quality, and ending prior to completion of treatment. COVID-19 and the recent pandemic have only amplified meso and micro-level gaps in care. considered, provided, and reimbursed.

Hello everyone, as part of my graduate coursework, I've written a grant proposal that proposes a trauma-informed public health intervention for providing culturally appropriate mental health services for the Southeast Asian American community in Long Beach, California. Below, I give an overview of my grant and discuss applicable trauma-informed principles, levels of the social-ecological model, and public health framework. Overview Southeast Asian American (SEAA) communities in the United...

Mental health is a serious problem among the inmates in our country. According to the Vera Institute of Justice, a premier criminal justice research and advocacy non-profit, mental illness is one of the most significant problems facing women in prison today (Subramanian, 2016). In 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice found that 31% of incarcerated women have a serious mental illness, while only 15% of men report the same (James, 2006).

One of the most critical public health issues to date is the mental health crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated amongst people of color in the United States. Through our trauma-informed facility, RISE Creative Lab, our mission is to tend to the mental health needs of people of color in the vibrant NYC community. RISE Creative Lab stands for resilience-based, integrated social arts education. It is a trauma-informed educational arts lab that aims to bridge boundaries between...

The dose-response relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and mental illness is a public health concern. Findings from literature have illustrated the importance of early interventions in order to alleviate the effects of ACEs and improve children’s development (Felitti et al., 1998). The proposed grant seeks to explore ACEs in children aged 12-17 years old in Leon County, Florida. The provision of mental and physical resources at various levels of the social ecological...