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Resources
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- Bridging Refugee Youth & Children's Services -- BRYCS is a national technical assistance project working to broaden
the scope of information and collaboration among service providers
- in order to strengthen services to refugee youth, children
and their families. Visit their website to access their clearinghouse of online resources related to refugee youth and child well-being.
- Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives -- CFBCI welcomes the participation of faith-based and community
organizations (FBCOs) as essential partners in assisting the country's
neediest citizens. CFBCI empowers FBCOs to compete more effectively
for Federal funds so that they may provide better human services to
more people.
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Multilingual Publications -- This website provides downloadable CMS documents in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese.
- Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys -- The National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Psychiatric
Epidemiology Surveys (CPES) provides data on the distributions,
correlates, and risk factors of mental disorders among the general
population, with special emphasis on minority groups. This project
joins together three nationally representative surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), the National Survey of American Life (NSAL), and the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). Visit their website to view their studies that collectively provide the first national data with
sufficient power to investigate cultural and ethnic influences on
mental disorders.
- Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI) -- The DEBI project was designed to bring science-based, community, group,
and individual-level HIV prevention interventions to community-based
service providers and state and local health departments. The goal is
to enhance the capacity to implement effective interventions at the
state and local levels, to reduce the spread of HIV and STDs, and to
promote healthy behaviors. Visit their website to get information on implementing various behavioral interventions.
- DiversityRx -- DiversityRx is a clearinghouse of information on how to meet the language
and cultural needs of minorities, immigrants, refugees and other diverse
populations seeking health care.
- Eliminating Mental Health Disparities -- EMHD is funded by the Center for Mental Health Resources as a vehicle to develop and implement strategies to eliminate disparities at the federal, state and local levels. Visit their website to get resources and news, as well as information on current governmental initiatives to eliminate mental health disparities.
- EthnoMed -- EthnoMed is a website containing medical
and cultural information on immigrant and refugee groups. The objective is to make
information about culture, language, health, illness and community resources
directly accessible to health care providers who see patients from
different ethnic groups. Visit the website to learn about the health issues facing specific populations and get translated material for patient education.
- Georgetown University Maternal and Child Health Library -- The MCH Library is a virtual guide to MCH information. It offers a
combination of MCH information compiled by library staff and pathways
to the best MCH information available on other websites, from
organizations, and in libraries. Visit their website to gain access to
databases, knowledge pathways, bibliographies and other information
resources.
- Healthy People 2010 -- Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the nation. The first goal of Healthy People 2010 is to help individuals of
all ages increase life expectancy and improve their quality
of life, the second goal is to eliminate health
disparities among different segments of the population. Visit their website to utilize healthfinder.gov, a knowledge pathway that outlines resources according to the 28 focus areas of Health People 2010.
- Healthy Roads Media -- With funding from the National Library of Medicine, this website contains free health education materials in a number of languages and a variety of formats. Visit the website to gain access to informational materials in several languages and in different formats such as video and audio.
- Kaiser Family Foundation -- KFF serves as a non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis
for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public. Visit their website to get current information on health policy. They have a specific section dedicated to Minority Health which includes information on Racial Disparities.
- National Alliance on Mental Illness -- NAMI is a national grassroots mental health advocacy organization that focuses on raising awareness about mental illness. Visit their website to locate local NAMI offices and obtain resources on mental health promotion. Be sure to check out their Multicultural Action Center.
- National Center for Cultural Competence -- NCC's mission is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care
programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and
linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing
diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental
health equity. Visit their Resources & Tools section to access their searchable Resource Database with hundredes of articles on cultural and linguistic competence.
- National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities -- NCMHD's mission is to promote
minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH
effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. In this
effort NCMHD will conduct and support basic, clinical, social, and
behavioral research, promote research infrastructure and training,
foster emerging programs, disseminate information, and reach out to
minority and other health disparity communities. Visit their website for federal funding opportunities.
- NIMH Prevention of Mental Disorders -- The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has a webpage devoted to Prevention, including NIMH meeting summaries, Resources for Researchers (such as Funding Opportunities), Science Highlights, and information about currently NIMH-funded prevention trials.
- National Library of Medicine: Consumer Health Information in Many Language Resources -- This NLM website serves as a clearinghouse of health resources in
many languages. Visit this website to gain access to all other
websites that provide health resources in multiple languages, or for
specific populations.
- National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities -- NPA is a multilevel effot to mobilize and connect individuals and organizations to create a nation free of health disparities, with quality health outcomes for all people. NPA seeks to illuminate the compelling issues that affect health outcomes, identify action steps that partners can adopt and adapt, highlight promising practices, and promote tools, programs, and information sources for stakeholders. Visit their website for resources on elminating health disparities and to learn more about their Regional Blueprints that are forming the basis for improved coordination of regional actions related to reducing health disparities.
- National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices -- NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and
treatment of mental and substance use disorders. SAMHSA has developed
this resource to help people, agencies, and organizations implement
programs and practices in their communities.
- Office of Minority Health -- Established by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the
OMH works to improve and protect the health of racial
and ethnic minority populations through the development of health
policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities. Visit
their website for funding opportunities, data on health disparities,
information on cultural competency and news related to reducing health
disparities.
- Portland State University Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health -- Through collaborative research partnerships with family members,
service providers, policy makers, and other concerned persons the Center promotes
effective community-based, culturally competent, family-centered
services for families and their children who are affected by emotional or behavioral disorders. Visit their website to obtain publications on family support and children's mental health and to participate in discussions on various topic areas related to children's mental health.
- Refugee Health Information Network -- This website provides multilingual information for health professionals, refugees, and asylees in video, audio and print format.
- SAMHSA Office of Appliced Studies Spanish Language Materials -- Visit this website to gain access to substance abuse materials in Spanish, and links to materials in Spanish from
SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information (NCADI).
- Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health -- The TA Partnership operates under contract with the federal Center for
Mental Health Services to provide technical assistance to system of
care communities funded by the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program . Visit their website to learn more about Systems of Care, gain access to resources specific to certain fields such as child welfare and juvenile justice, and become a member of one of their Communities of Practice.
- Think Cultural Health -- This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health (OMH),
offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural competency in
health care. Visit this site to access free online courses accredited for
continuing education credit as well as supplementary tools to help you
and your organization promote respectful, understandable, and effective
care to your increasingly diverse patients.
- Trauma-Informed Interventions: Clinical & Research Evidence & Culture-Specific Information (NCTSN Report) -- These fact sheets from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) describe some of the clinical
treatment and trauma-informed service approaches implemented by
National Child Traumatic Stress Network centers, with the common goal
of reducing the impact of exposure to traumatic events on children and
adolescents.
- University of South Florida Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health -- The Research and Training Center for
Children’s Mental Health works to strengthen the empirical foundation
for effective systems of care, and improve services for children with serious
emotional or behavioral disorders and their families. Visit their website to obtain publications on children's mental health, gain access to key presentations, and learn more about their research iniatives.
- White Bison, Inc. -- White Bison, Inc. offers sobriety, recovery, addictions prevention, and
wellness/Wellbriety learning resources to the Native American community
nationwide. Visit their website to learn more about the Wellbriety Movement and participate in their Discussion Board.
- Click below to download the NNED Blueprint that outlines the goals, mission, and vision of the NNED click below:
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