Resource Types: Fact Sheet/Issue Brief

Positive Mental Health: Resilience

This brief presents research findings on the characteristics of adolescents who demonstrate resilience, along with strategies that promote resilience in adolescents and other useful resources. One of three Adolescent Health Highlights, a series on adolescent mental health, this brief discusses six factors that are associated with resilience and promote positive mental health.  

Risk and Protective Factors in Racial/Ethnic Populations in the U.S.

This series of fact sheets presents information on risk and protective factors in different racial/ethnic populations.

Follow these links for each fact sheet in the series:

• Risk and Protective Factors: American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
• Risk and Protective Factors: Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander Populations
• Risk and Protective Factors: Black Populations
• Risk and Protective Factors: Hispanic Populations
• Risk and Protective Factors: White Populations

The role of law enforcement officers in preventing suicide

This sheet provides basic information to help law enforcement officers recognize and respond to people who may be suicidal or at high risk. It also contains a list of relevant resource materials and organizations. Extensive input and review from law enforcement officers at the national and local levels were obtained in developing the sheet.

Nurturing change: State strategies for improving infant and early childhood mental health

This brief summarizes recommendations for policy improvements in a report generated through an examination of the scientific evidence behind early childhood mental health (I-ECMH) policies and interviews with key informants at the state and national levels to learn about barriers, successful strategies. Also includes profiles of six states where strategies they used to address some of the barriers to providing I ECMH.   

The role of co-workers in preventing suicide

This brief sheet provides basic information to help employees recognize and respond to their coworkers who may be suicidal or at high risk. It also contains a list of relevant resource materials and organizations.