Mental Health Awareness Month Resources

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration sponsors Mental Health Awareness Month in May to disseminate knowledge and understanding of key behavioral health issues.

Below is a list of SAMHSA’s Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center (EBPRC) resources that you can share with your networks:

• Practical Guide for Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach
• Advisory: Identification and Management of Mental Health Symptoms and Conditions Associated with Long COVID
• Addressing Burnout in the Behavioral Health Workforce through Organizational Strategies
• Advisory: Expanding Implementation of Mental Health Awareness Training in the Workplace
• Psychosocial Interventions for Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness
• Prevention and Treatment of Anxiety, Depression, and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among College Students
• Telehealth for the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
• Treatment Considerations for Youth and Young Adults with Serious Emotional Disturbances and Serious Mental Illnesses and Co-occurring Substance Use
• Treatment for Suicidal Ideation, Self-harm, and Suicide Attempts Among Youth
• Comparison of the Safety Planning Intervention With Follow-up vs Usual Care of Suicidal Patients Treated in the Emergency Department
• First-Episode Psychosis and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders
• Advancing Comprehensive School Mental Health Systems
• Intensive Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Complex Mental and Substance Use Disorders: State and Community Profiles
• Guidance on Strategies to Promote Best Practice in Antipsychotic Prescribing for Children and Adolescents ·
• A Practical Guide to Psychiatric Advance Directives
• Civil Commitment and the Mental Health Care Continuum: Historical Trends and Principles for Law and Practice
• After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools, Second Edition
• Understanding A First Episode Of Psychosis Young Adult: Get the Facts
• Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs and Practices
• Strategies to Improve Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents
• Strategies to De-Escalate Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients

For additional resources that focus on substance use disorder and mental illness prevention, treatment, and recovery, please visit the EBPRC website.