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    Warm Lines: Providing Help Before a Crisis Develops

    • Patients and Families

    A warm line is a confidential, free phone service offering mental health support. Unlike a crisis line or hotline, they are not intended for emergency situations. Warm lines are typically staffed by volunteer or paid peers—people with personal experience with mental health disorders.  They use their experience to better understand and support callers, offering conversation, emotional support and information on local mental health services and other community services when needed.

    Personal Perspectives on Family Engagement and Support

    Ken Duckworth, M.D., chief medical officer, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) leads a deep discussion with individuals who reflect on their years of lived experience with serious mental illness (SMI) and the critical role family members played in their journeys.

    Autism, Anxiety and Sensory Challenges

    • Anxiety, Autism, Patients and Families

    Anxiety disorders are common in children and adolescents, and sensory reactivity is also common among young children. Both conditions are more common in children with autism than children without autism. Researchers are exploring the connections and relationships between these conditions.

    Lessons from Rapid Expansion of Telemedicine During the Pandemic

    • Patients and Families

    Widespread lockdowns earlier this year in response to COVID-19  pandemic led to the rapid use of telehealth. A recent study in the Journal of Adolescent Health focused on  one health clinic in California serving adolescents and young adults as they rapidly transitioned to telehealth. As was the situation across the country,  the clinic went from 0 to almost all (97%) of patient visits occurring via telehealth within a month.

    Nature’s Benefits for Mental Health May Not Work So Well When Pressured

    • Anxiety, Depression, Patients and Families

    During the more than a year of pandemic restrictions, access to parks and other green spaces have been very important escapes for many, offering a place to go for exercise and social interaction when other options weren’t available. Fifteen national parks set new recreation visitation records in 2020, despite temporary park closures and restrictions in response to the pandemic.

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