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    September 29, 2023

    Better Together: Changing Public Health Outcomes in Virginia with the Co-Responder Model

    • Public awareness, Serious mental illness, Suicide and self-harm

    The co-responder model is a recent innovation in behavioral health services that employs a mental health professional and a law enforcement official as dual first responders when an individual experiences a mental health crisis. The Marcus-David Peters Act (“Marcus Alert” or “MA”), signed into law in Virginia in late 2020, commemorates Marcus-David Peters, a young Black biology teacher in Richmond, VA, who was killed by police while undergoing a mental health crisis.

    August 25, 2023

    Elevating Bebe Moore Campbell's Legacy in 2023: APA's Dynamic Approach to National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

    • Diverse populations, Patients and Families, Suicide and self-harm, Teens and young adults

    In July American Psychiatric Association (APA) embarked on its annual effort to honor of the late renowned author and mental health advocate, Bebe Moore Campbell. Established by Congress in 2008, Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month is a call to action and reminder of the mental health inequities affecting communities, and in particular, young people of color. This month-long recognition is especially important considering the prevalent mental health inequities facing youth of color, particularly Black youth.

    March 23, 2023

    How to Talk About Suicide on Social Media

    • Patients and Families, Public awareness, Suicide and self-harm

    Social media has tremendous reach and influence. When people post on social media about suicide, that influence can be helpful or hurtful. Conversations about suicide on social media can promote misperceptions and stigma and potentially influence others to attempt suicide

    January 06, 2023

    New Report Calls for Research on 988 Crisis Line Effectiveness, Caller Demographics, and More

    • New research, Public awareness, Suicide and self-harm, Trauma

    It has been nearly six months since the launch of 988—the nationwide suicide prevention and mental health crisis line. While available evidence suggests that crisis lines may help to reduce immediate crisis, substantial gaps remain in understanding how crisis lines work, according to a report in the December issue of JAMA Psychiatry.

    November 08, 2022

    Intersectionality and Crisis Intervention

    • Suicide and self-harm, Teens and young adults, Trauma

    Officer for Crisis Text Line. “We are losing children of color at rates that are epidemic,” says Shairi Turner, M.D., M.P.H., an internist and pediatrician with a background in trauma.  She is Chief Health Officer for Crisis Text Line, a national non-profit providing 24/7 crisis counseling via text in both English and Spanish. 

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