This issue brief examines the relationship between suicide and bullying among children and adolescents, with special attention to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. It also explores strategies for preventing these problems.
Resource Types: Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Helping children and youth who have experienced traumatic events: Mental Health Awareness Day, May 3, 2011
This fact sheet explains how traumatic events can affect children’s well-being and behavior and how two programs the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network address the needs of those children. Results of these trauma-informed care programs included fewer suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.
Urban Indian Health Centers resource guide 2: Formalizing partnerships through MOAs
This document provides guidance in writing MOAs (Memorandum of Agreement) as a statement of cooperation or understanding between two (or more) parties.
Using practice-based evidence to complement evidence-based practice in children’s behavioral health
This issue brief discusses practice-based evidence, including its emergence and how it is similar to and distinct from evidence-based practice as well as how it may be used to complement evidence-based practice.
Rhode Island Child Death Review Team Youth Suicide Issue Brief (2005-2010)
This issue brief includes data on deaths in Rhode Island for young people up to age 25, information on current prevention efforts, recommendations for youth suicide prevention, and a resource list.
Helping families support their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) children
This practice brief was developed for families, caretakers, advocates, and providers to provide basic information on how families can support their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children; and share some of the critical new research from the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) at San Francisco State University showing that families have a major impact on their LGBT children’s health, mental health, and well-being.
When a student seems dangerous to self or others
This one-page information sheet provides specific guidance to schools on how to respond when a student appears at imminent risk of violence or suicidal acts.
Understanding when your child may be suicidal & how to help
Lists warning signs for suicide in children for parents and how they should respond.
Views from the home front: The experience of children from military families
Summarizes research showing that children from military families experience above-average levels of emotional and behavioral difficulties and that longer parental deployments are associated with greater difficulties. based on the journal article, Children on the Homefront (Pediatrics 2010;125(1):16-25).
Evidence-based practices and multicultural mental health
The mental health field is increasingly requiring evidence based practices (EBPs) in an effort to boost quality, effectiveness, and accountability in mental health care services. This resource was created to provide information to NAMI stakeholders—individuals with mental illness, families, providers, and partners—on the literature discussing EBPs, with special consideration of multicultural issues. Discusses: the basics of EBPs; history of the EBP movement; EBP challenges; cultural adaptations of EBPs; utilization of culturally specific interventions (i.e., practice-based evidence models); and policy considerations.