Topic Collection: COVID-19 Behavioral Health Compendium

Each entry in this Compendium includes: an overview of the data source; data ownership and funding source; basic content (topical areas covered); major publications, websites, and documentation; available datasets (public and restricted); data quality; statutory and regulatory restrictions on access and use; capacity to link with other data sources; and examples of prior research using linked data. To be included, a dataset had to: 1) include person or case-level data; 2) relate directly to an ACF program; 3) have the potential to be used for analytical or evaluation purposes to improve program operations; and 4) be an administrative database with national scope or a nationally representative survey.

The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) is an inventory of datasets obtained from researchers and data collection efforts in the field of child abuse an neglect. The inventory is housed at Cornell University and datasets may be requested by researchers.

Examination Components: Surveys, databases, discharges from acute care community hospitals from 47 states. Data are from billing data collected through a public or private data entity within each state. Databases include discharges from all hospitals in each of the states. HCUP standardizes the databases so that the data elements are standard across the various databases. Discharges from all acute care hospitals; data are collected yearly beginning in 1988. HCUP has the following components: HCUP NIS (National Inpatient Sample); HCUP KID (KID’s Inpatient Database); HCUP NEDS (Nationwide Emergency Department Sample); HCUP SID (State Inpatient Database); HCUP SASD (State Ambulatory Surgery Database), and HCUP SEDD (State Emergency Department Database).

This FAQ sheet provides general information about the Overdose Mapping and Application Program (ODMAP). ODMAP provides near real-time suspected overdose surveillance data across jurisdictions to support public safety and public health efforts.

CDC/DASH has a current contract with NORC at the University of Chicago to conduct an adolescent health survey in summer 2021. The survey will address a range of adolescent health issues including protective factors, mental health, risk behaviors, and service use. Through a cooperative agreement, they are funding the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to conduct interviews with eight local education agencies who had comprehensive mental health systems asking questions related to the services, systems, and partnerships they had in place to deliver mental health services as well as barriers and facilitators to this work. there will be an internal report submitted to CDC synthesizing information from the interviews.

Public health syndromic surveillance using inpatient and ambulatory clinical care electronic health record (EHR) data is a relatively new practice. As eligible health professionals and hospitals adopt, implement, and upgrade their EHR systems through the CMS EHR Incentive programs (Meaningful Use programs), there is an opportunity for public health agencies (PHAs) to routinely receive health data from settings other than emergency departments and urgent care centers.

The primary purpose of the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) system is to monitor the HIV epidemic through an ongoing HIV behavioral surveillance system. This system ascertains the prevalence of and trends in HIV risk behaviors and HIV infection among groups at high risk for HIV infection. Information from the system is used to develop and direct the evaluation of national and local HIV prevention services and programs. The system focuses on the three populations at highest risk: men who have sex with men; injectable drug users; and heterosexuals at increased risk of HIV. The project collects information from these three populations in rotating 12-month cycles.

This project reports surveillance data and geographical distribution of health-related outcomes. PLACES provides city and census tract estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes and clinical prevention services use for the 500 largest U.S. cities.

Funded recipients of the National Harm Reduction Technical Assistance and Syringe Services Program are conducting surveillance among people who inject drugs, and monitoring and evaluation of syringe services program. Both surveys (one in development and one currently at OMB) ask questions about onsite provision and uptake of patient navigation services, medications for opioid use disorder, and access to other BH recovery programs

The Title V Information System (TVIS) electronically captures data from annual Title V Block Grant applications and reports submitted by all 59 U.S. states, territories, and jurisdictions, and provides information on measures and indicators of maternal and child health (MCH) in the United States. The information collected from the Application for Block Grant funds includes data on each state’s needs, priorities, program activities, performance measures and outcomes to be compiled and compared with information from other states. The data collected are used to generate reports to Congress.

AHRQ has produced the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) annually since 2003. These reports measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness and efficiency of care. Chapter topics include care coordination of health system infrastructure. The reports present, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care.

N-MHSS is the only source of national- and state-level data on the mental health services delivery system reported by both publicly and privately operated specialty mental health treatment facilities. They include: public and private psychiatric hospitals, nonfederal general hospitals with separate psychiatric units, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers, residential treatment centers for children and adults, Community mental health centers, outpatient, day treatment, or partial hospitalization mental health facilities, Multi-setting (non-hospital) mental health facilities.

The data provide estimates of substance use and mental illness at the national, state, and substate levels. NSDUH data also help to identify the extent of substance use and mental illness among different subgroups, estimate trends over time, and determine the need for treatment services.

VA's Office of Mental Health and Suiicde Prevention continued to track, compile and evaluate administrative and qualitative data sources for specific mental health and suicide prevention programs, including inpatient, residential and outpatient services, as well as calls to the Veterans Crisis Line, throughout the pandemic. In May 2020, VHA provided over 1.1 million mental health telephone and televideo visits (over 82% of total mental health visits); more than 259,000 of these were televideo visits. This represents a complete shift compared to February data, where 85% of care was in-person care, leading the way for other VA healthcare services to make the change.

Provides grants to states, territories and tribes to support the child welfare needs of families during this crisis, and to help keep families together.

Grants to states, territories and tribes for immediate assistance to child care providers to prevent them from going out of business and to otherwise support child care for families, including for healthcare workers, first responders, and others playing critical roles during this crisis.

The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) provides funds to alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty in communities.

CDC-RFA-PS18-1807 NOFO, Promoting Adolescent Health Through School-based Funding

Part of PS18-1807 includes strategies to ensure safe and supportive environments for students to ensure that they grow into healthy, successful adults.

CDC’s Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program funds 15 states and 2 universities to implement and evaluate a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention, with a special focus on populations that are disproportionately affected by suicide.

The COVID-19 Telehealth Program provides $200 million in funding, appropriated by Congress as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, to help health care providers provide connected care services to patients at their homes or mobile locations in response to the novel Coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The Program will provide immediate support to eligible health care providers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by fully funding their telecommunications services, information services, and devices necessary to provide critical connected care services until the program’s funds have been expended or the COVID-19 pandemic has ended.

The fiscal year (FY) 2019 Integrated Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) funding opportunity is a non-competitive supplement for organizations currently receiving Health Center Program operational grant (H80) funding. IBHS funding will help health centers increase access to high quality, integrated mental health and substance use disorders (SUD) services, including opioid use disorder.

Key areas of research encouraged by these NOSIs include various aspects of the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19 including risk communication, adherence to and transmission risks from various public health mitigation efforts, economic and social impacts from these mitigation efforts, downstream health and healthcare access effects as a result of these economic and social impacts, and interventions to ameliorate these downstream health impacts.

The CCP is a short-term disaster relief grant for states, U.S. territories, and federally recognized tribes. CCP grants are awarded after a presidential disaster declaration. CCP funding supports community-based outreach, counseling, and other mental health services to survivors of natural and human-caused disasters. The CCP provides supplemental funding to state, territory, or tribal mental health authorities through two grant programs: The Immediate Services Program (ISP) grant provides funding for up to 60 days after a presidential disaster declaration. The Regular Services Program (RSP) grant provides funding for up to nine months after a presidential disaster declaration.

The Community Mental Health Services Block Grant (MHBG) program makes funds available to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 6 Pacific jurisdictions to provide community mental health services.

Mandated by Congress, SAMHSA's block grants are noncompetitive grants that provide funding for substance abuse and mental health services.

The Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (SABG) program provides funds to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, 6 Pacific jurisdictions, and 1 tribal entity to prevent and treat substance abuse.

The Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program School provides competitive grants to support and demonstrate innovative partnerships to train school-based mental health service providers for employment in schools and local educational agencies (LEAs).

The Trauma Recovery Demonstration Grant Program provides competitive grants to SEAs to support model programs that enable a student from a low-income family (as defined) who has experienced trauma that negatively affects the student’s educational experience to access the trauma-specific mental-health services from the provider that best meet the student’s needs. The parent (as defined) of such a student from a low-income family may request services on behalf of the student.

This program provides grants to local educational agencies LEAs to increase their capacity to help schools in communities with pervasive violence to better address the needs of affected students and break the cycle of violence.

FVPS offers residential and non-residential shelter, transitional housing and counseling for adults, children, families and legal services.

Head Start and Early Head Start programs support the mental health of children, families, and staff everyday. They have mental health resources to support response and recovery and areas connected to trauma substance use disorders, domestic violence, etc.

This page illustrates the various funding streams provided through the CARES Act.

Approximately $7 million has been provided to PS18-1807 recipients to 1) provide mental health staff to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among school students and staff; and 2) develop and/or adapt and disseminate tools, policies, and practices to support school systems in recovery from long-term school closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

CDC COVID-19 response funds will be added to the NORC contract in order to conduct up to 4 additional surveys. Surveys will be conducted in late summer/early fall of adolescents and parents of school-aged children regarding a range of COVID-related questions. These surveys will be repeated 6 months later.

This webpage illustrates how CDC is supporting states, tribes, territories, non-governmental organizations, and university research programs to address four priority areas in suicide prevention.

As authorized by the CARES Act, SAMHSA is seeking to award $40 million for follow up with adults who have attempted suicide or experienced a suicidal crisis following discharge from psychiatric facilities or emergency rooms. These funds also are intended to facilitate patient follow up and train clinicians and community members, facilitate community planning and conduct screening. Up to 50 grants may be made to eligible entities including states, territories, tribes and tribal organizations and behavioral health organizations.

The CARES Act provided SAMHSA with $15 million to address tribal needs related to COVID-19. To quickly provide funding in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, SAMHSA is providing supplemental funding to 154 current Tribal Behavioral Health (TBH) grant recipients in the amount of $97,402 each to meet the increased mental and substance use disorders needs among tribes.

A 24/7 hotline that serves as the national communication system for runaway and homeless youth (RHY) providing crisis intervention, information and referrals, and other resources. The RHY hotline can be reached: by phone: 1‐800‐RUNAWAY / 1‐800‐786‐2929, by email: https://www.1800runaway.org/crisis‐online‐services/, online chat: https://www.1800runaway.org/ and select “Chat Now,” and forum: https://bulletinboards.1800runaway.org/forum

The COVID-19 pandemic is putting stress on the entire community – family and friends, caregivers, co-workers, neighbors, and others. Our focused community resilience virtual training programs, conducted by mental health professionals, can help community groups and professional caregivers cope with added stress, foster resiliency, and encourage peer support. These no-cost courses are approximately 2-3 hours in length and can be adapted for local community needs

The American Red Cross is offering a Psychological First Aid: Supporting Yourself and Others During COVID-19 Online course during the pandemic. The course content is based on guidance from the American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). This online course is designed for anyone interested in learning techniques for supporting mental health during the COVID-19 crisis.

ASPR TRACIE has worked closely with ASPR At-Risk Individuals, Behavioral Health & Community Resilience (ABC) interagency/ external partner working groups in every disaster recovery operation for the last four years. One continuous knowledge gap identified during this time has been the need for information for front-line healthcare and social services workers to use prior to a disaster to recognize and reduce their stress levels and maintain resilience during recovery. These modules are designed for healthcare workers in all settings, but primarily hospital-based providers.

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created this activity book to offer parents and educators an interactive way to talk to kids about how to cope after a disaster. We hope you will encourage its use in your schools, communities, and families to help children talk about their feelings after a disaster, and learn positive ways to express their emotions in uncertain times."

This fact sheet discusses some reasons people feel stress about environmental contamination, what you can do to support your health if you feel stress, and who to contact if you need help dealing with stress.

This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help prevent child abuse and neglect. These strategies include strengthening economic supports to families; changing social norms to support parents and positive parenting; providing quality care and education early in life; enhancing parenting skills to promote healthy child development; and intervening to lessen harms and prevent future risk. The strategies represented in this package include those with a focus on preventing child abuse and neglect from happening in the first place as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of child abuse and neglect. These strategies range from a focus on individuals, families, and relationships to broader community and societal change. This range of strategies is needed to better address the interplay between individual-family behavior and broader neighborhood, community, and cultural contexts

STRYVE (Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere) is a CDC initiative to help communities prevent youth violence. Information, experiences, and lessons learned from STRYVE grantees informed the development of this interactive resource that can help other communities across the country take a public health approach to preventing youth violence – stopping it before it even starts. Learn more about STRYVE

"This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent suicide. These strategies include: strengthening economic supports; strengthening access and delivery of suicide care; creating protective environments; promoting connectedness; teaching coping and problem-solving skills; identifying and supporting people at risk; and lessening harms and preventing future risk. The strategies represented in this package include those with a focus on preventing the risk of suicide in the first place as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of suicidal behavior for individuals, families, communities, and society. The strategies in the technical package support the goals and objectives of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s priority to strengthen community-based prevention. Commitment, cooperation, and leadership from numerous sectors, including public health, education, justice, health care, social services, business, labor, and government can bring about the successful implementation of this package."

Natural disasters can cause a lot of stress on individuals, families, and communities. Stress can increase the risk for violence in the home, neighborhood, or community. Efforts to prevent violence after a natural disaster should focus on supporting the physical and emotional needs of individuals and families as well as restoring community-based services.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood. ACEs can include violence, abuse, and growing up in a family with mental health or substance use problems. Toxic stress from ACEs can change brain development and affect how the body responds to stress. ACEs are linked to chronic health problems, mental illness, and substance misuse in adulthood. However, ACEs can be prevented. This resource further explains more about ACEs and how raising awareness can help to prevent them.

Technical packages help communities and states prioritize prevention activities with the greatest potential for impact. A technical package has three parts. The first component is the strategy or the preventive direction or actions to achieve the goal of preventing ACEs. The second component is the approach. The approach includes the specific ways to advance the strategy. This can be accomplished through programs, practices, and policies. The third component is the evidence for each of the approaches in preventing ACEs or its associated risk factors.

VetoViolence exists to empower you and your community to prevent violence and implement evidence-based prevention strategies in your community. Tools, trainings, and resources are designed to empower you and your partners to help reduce risks for violence and to increase what protects people and communities from it.

The CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is one of the largest investigations of childhood abuse and neglect and household challenges and later-life health and well-being

How Right Now is a tool that allows individuals to click on emotions and feelings (e.g., grief, loss, and worry) during COVID-19. Related information and links to resources are provided under each option. Support for the initiative is provided by the CDC Foundation.

This webpage contains information about CDC’s Rx Awareness campaign against prescription opioid addiction, personal accounts of individuals affected by prescription opioid addiction, and resources that can be used to raise awareness prescription opioid addiction awareness.

Know the facts about coronavirus disease 2019.

This resource page includes guidance for individuals, healthcare providers, and others on COVID-19.

This webpage can help users (including parents, responders, and people who have been released from quarantine) understand and manage their reactions to stressful situations (e.g., pandemics, natural and human-caused disasters).

The HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) has developed the following resources and trainings under the Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Technical Assistance COE BHTA COVID-19 TA. Health Center Program TA Webinars include “Cost Accounting for Behavioral Health Integration for Health Professionals” - Experts share strategies that health centers can use to assess their organization's level of behavioral health integration and identify strategies and resources they can use to guide telehealth billing during COVID-19.

This webpage highlights HRSA programs focused on behavioral health services delivery and/or training and education.

This page highlights HRSA programs focused on behavioral health services delivery and/or training and education specific to maternal and child health.

This page highlights HRSA programs focused on the opioid crisis.

The HRSA Office of Women’s Health (OWH) and Office of Regional Operations (Region 9), in partnership with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Family Violence Prevention and Services (FVPSA) Program hosted the Sheltering in Place, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Healthcare Response webinar on May 20, 2020. The webinar featured best practices and resources for health care providers and community partners as they respond to domestic violence, support victims experiencing abuse, and promote resiliency in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar included a focus on behavioral health throughout including approaches to address the dynamics of increased disconnection from social support systems, and had 2,298 registrations and 1,007 unique live participants.

The HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) funded Regional Public Health Training Centers (PHTC) have developed trainings about mental health, substance use disorder and COVID-19. Subjects include: (1) Responding to Disasters: Mental Health Crisis Management; (2) COVID-19 Pandemic: Mental Health Consequences and Implications; (3) Coronavirus Seminar Series: Mental Health in a Time of Crisis; (4) Self-Care and promoting post-traumatic growth during active crisis management; (5) Addressing the Needs of Consumers and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) in the Age of COVID-19; and (6) COVID-19: Pediatric Mental Health.

The HRSA Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) is a multi-year initiative aimed at reducing the morbidity and mortality of substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD), in rural communities at the highest risk for SUD. The Technical Assistance provider manages a Technical Assistance Portal which houses resources for RCORP grantees, including webinars. A number of resources and webinars over the past few months have focused on the impact of COVID-19 on service delivery for opioid use disorder in rural areas.

The HRSA Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center supports a Telebehavioral Health Center of Excellence. The Center of Excellence is dedicated to providing the most current, vetted, practical information for starting or enhancing Telebehavioral or Telemental health-related services. Providing technical assistance to clinical practices developing tele modalities for behavioral health service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This webpage describes and provides links to HRSA's telehealth resources.

This web page includes a categorized list of trauma-related resources provided by the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress Network.

Coping in hard times, a fact sheet for community organizations and leaders.

This course utilizes skills-building components from mental health treatment that have been found helpful in a variety of post-trauma situations to help survivor gain skills and manage distress.

Provides trauma-informed school strategies in response to COVID-19. This fact sheet offers information on the physical and emotional well-being of staff, creating a trauma-informed learning environment, identifying and assessing traumatic stress, addressing and treating traumatic stress, trauma education and awareness, partnerships with students and families, cultural responsiveness, emergency management and crisis response, and school discipline policies and practices.

Offers information on how to talk with chlidren about traumatic separation or traumatic grief as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 has resulted in thousands of children being separated from loved ones who require isolation and/or hospitalization due to a loved one testing positive for COVID-19 or because of potential exposure for essential workers. This tip sheet is for caregivers or other adults supporting children with traumatic separation or traumatic grief related to COVID-19. Especially in stressful times, in addition to the suggestions here, all children benefit from caregivers listening to and validating their different feelings.

This website provides resources and contact information for Native people experiencing domestic or dating violence. Individuals with concerns can use the website or call the helpline at 1−844-762-8483.

This resource includes guidelines and papers on best behavioral health practices and approaches during crisis care. This book also highlights key factors that impact crisis care.

This document provides links to COVID-19 related webinars and resources, with a particular focus on telehealth resources.

This network is comprised of community-based organizations focused on issues that impact diverse populations. This network provides information, training, and technical assistance to increase equity in behavioral health service distribution.

Self-care strategies for educators during the coronavirus crisis: supporting personal social and emotional well-being.

The Disaster Distress Helpline is a free, confidential 24/7 hotline service that provides support for disaster survivors, responders, or anyone experiencing the stress of an event. Users can call or text 1-800-985-5990 and connect with trained and caring professionals from a network of crisis centers across the country. Helpline staff provide supportive counseling, including information on common stress reactions and healthy coping, as well as referrals to local disaster-related resources for follow-up care and support.

This webinar provides updated Lethal Means training and resources for VHA facility Suicide Prevention Coordinators and other MH/SP clinicians.

Suicide prevention is a commonly used and understood term. However not everyone recognizes suicide postvention. Suicide postvention builds upon prevention efforts by providing immediate and ongoing support to those impacted by a suicide loss. Postvention is critical for healing after suicide. Uniting for Suicide Postvention (USPV) provides resources and support for everyone touched by suicide loss. Check out our USPV sections to learn more.

Free consultation, support, and resources that promote therapeutic best practices for providers working with Veterans at risk of suicide.

This resource allows you to hear stories of recovery from veterans on transitioning from service, maintaining healthy relationships, managing PTSD and more.

As the world's leading research and educational center of excellence on PTSD and traumatic stress, the VA provides resources on helping to understand PTSD and available treatment options for veterans.

This webpage provides links to monthly recording on topics relevant to treating PTSD.

This webpage provides links to information and resources (e.g., apps and videos) on suicide prevention and postvention.

The primary purpose of this program is to provide temporary shelter and counseling services to youth who have left home without permission, forced to leave or other homeless youth. Services are provided from 21 days.

This program provides support services with an ultimate goal of preventing sexual abuse and exploitation of young people living on the streets or in unstable housing.

The purpose is to provide a safety net and strong emotional support systems for youth. Services are provided for up to 540 days. This can be extended by 635 days in some circumstances.

The purpose is to promote long-term economic independence to ensure well-being of youth and their children. Services are provided up to 21 months or until the person turns 18.

Focused on funding emergency sheltering for survivors and children, funding for training and support to hotlines.

Integrated Condolence Care Program serves families of those who have died from COVID-19 as well as frontline workers. The program provides emotional and spiritual support, community resilience trainings, individual and group support sessions and a website with links and resource information.

DASH oversees CDC-RFA-PS18-1807 (PS18-1807): Promoting Adolescent Health Through School-Based HIV Prevention. PS18-1807 provides funding to state health/education/tribal/territorial agencies and local education agencies.

The National Harm Reduction Technical Assistance and Syringe Services Program provides technical assistance to ensure the provision of high-quality, comprehensive harm reduction services; implementing a national SSP monitoring and evaluation program; and supporting the development and implementation of best practices for patient navigation from SSPs to community-based health and social services.

The goal of DASH is to “improve the health of our nation’s youth” with a focus on preventing HIV, STDs, and unintended pregnancy. This webpage includes links to the strategic plan, the strategic framework, 2020 accomplishments, and a presentation.

The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories of health-related behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults. YRBSS includes a national school-based survey conducted by CDC and state, territorial, tribal, and local surveys conducted by state, territorial, and local education and health agencies and tribal governments. In addition to gathering data about risk behaviors, YRBS surveys collect information about youth experiences, including mental health and well-being. These data can support long-term behavior health recovery with increased understanding of youth behaviors before and after COVID-19.

Under the DASH program, CDC collects and analyzes data and develops guidance to support HIV, STD, and unintended pregnancy prevention efforts in the nation’s schools.

A comprehensive program that assists Commisioned Corps Care officers with improving readiness and preparedness, building resiliency, and cultivating healthier lives. The program was created to help assist officers by increasing awareness of available resources to address physical, behavioral, and spiritual needs of officers.

The Bullying Prevention Training Module Presentation is a research-based resource that can help users develop and lead bullying prevention efforts in local communities.

Health centers deliver care to the nation’s most vulnerable individuals and families, including people experiencing homelessness, agricultural workers, residents of public housing, and the nation’s veterans. More than 28 million people rely on a HRSA-funded health center for affordable, accessible, coordinated, comprehensive, and patient-centered care, with a wide range of medical, dental, behavioral, and patient services. There are nearly 1,400 HRSA-funded health centers operating approximately 12,000 service delivery sites nationwide. Approximately 93% of our health centers provide mental health counseling and treatment. 67% of health centers provide substance abuse services.

As one of the largest federal block grant programs, Title V is a key source of support for promoting and improving the health and well-being of the nation’s mothers, children, including children with special needs, and their families.

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program provides a comprehensive system of HIV primary medical care, essential support services, and medications for low-income people living with HIV who are uninsured and underserved. The Program funds grants to states, cities/counties, and local community-based organizations to provide care and treatment services to people living with HIV to improve health outcomes and reduce HIV transmission among hard-to-reach populations.

The objective of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) is to reduce the incidence and prevalence of alcohol and substance abuse among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) to a level at or below the general U.S. population. ASAP strives to meet this goal through the implementation of alcohol and substance abuse programs within Tribal communities, including emergency treatment, inpatient and outpatient treatment, and rehabilitation services, in rural and urban settings.

The Domestic Violence Prevention (DVP) Program, formerly known as the Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative (DVPI), is a congressionally mandated, nationally coordinated grant and federal award program for tribes, tribal organizations, Urban Indian organizations (UIO), and federal facilities, providing violence prevention and treatment services. The DVP promotes the development of evidence-based and practice-based models that represent culturally appropriate prevention and treatment approaches to domestic and sexual violence from a community-driven context. The DVP expands outreach and increases awareness by funding projects that provide victim advocacy, intervention, case coordination, policy development, community response teams, sexual assault examiner programs, and community and school education programs.

The IHS Mental Health Program is a community-based clinical and preventive service program that provides access to vital outpatient mental health counseling, dual diagnosis services, mental health crisis response and triage teams, case management services, community-based prevention programming, outreach, and health education activities.

The Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention (SASP) program, formerly known as the Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative (MSPI), is a nationally-coordinated program focused on providing much-needed methamphetamine and suicide prevention and intervention resources for Indian Country. This initiative promotes the use and development of evidence-based and practice-based models that represent culturally-appropriate prevention and treatment approaches to methamphetamine abuse and suicide prevention from a community-driven context.

The Zero Suicide model is a comprehensive approach to suicide care which aims to reduce the risk of suicide for all individuals seen in health care systems. Zero Suicide represents a commitment to patient safety – the most fundamental responsibility of health care – and to the safety and support of clinical staff who treat and support suicidal patients.

The CCP is a short-term disaster relief grant for states, U.S. territories, and federally recognized tribes. CCP grants are awarded after a presidential disaster declaration. CCP funding supports community-based outreach, counseling, and other mental health services to survivors of natural and human-caused disasters. The CCP provides supplemental funding to state, territory, or tribal mental health authorities through two grant programs: The Immediate Services Program (ISP) grant provides funding for up to 60 days after a presidential disaster declaration. The Regular Services Program (RSP) grant provides funding for up to nine months after a presidential disaster declaration.

This behavioral health technical assistance center provides pre-and post-disaster planning and support for states, tribes, and territories. The website includes links to trainings, toolkits and other post-disaster behavioral health resources for individuals and communities.

This behavioral health technical assistance center is geared towards members of the military, veterans, and their loved ones and provides links to trainings, toolkits, and other helpful resources.

These centers bolster the specialized behavioral healthcare and primary healthcare workforce that provides support services for people with substance use disorder and mental illnesses.

The purpose of this program is to award grants to eligible State educational agencies (SEAs) to enable them to provide financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) that serve homeless children and youth displaced by a covered disaster or emergency. The program helps to address the educational and related needs of these students in a manner consistent with section 723 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento Act) and with section 106 of Title IV of Division B of Public Law 109-148.

The purpose of the SBMH grant program is to provide competitive grants to State educational agencies (SEAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), and consortia of LEAs to increase the number of credentialed mental health services providers providing school-based mental health services to students in LEAs with demonstrated need.

The REMS TA Center presents this infographic, which contains information based on independent research, to guide users as they search for state-level information related to school and higher ed safety and emergency management. The REMS TA Center does not guarantee that all necessary state mandates are represented in this map, nor that this infographic contains the most up-to-date information. Users should verify this information independently. Furthermore, this map may include hyperlinks to third-party content, advertising, or Websites. When viewing this infographic, you acknowledge and agree that the REMS TA Center is not responsible for nor endorses any advertising, products, or resource available from such sources or Websites.

OEM provides a full range of support to VHA facilities and Headquarters Program Offices--across all 5 phases of emergency response--to ensure resiliency, continuity and rapid recovery of VHA healthcare services to our nation's veterans during disasters and other potential disruptions to healthcare service delivery.

OMHSP improves the quality and availability of a full continuum of behavioral and mental health services, including prevention strategies, outpatient, residential, and inpatient treatments, and recovery and rehabilitation services to promote optimal mental health and quality of life, and reduce illness, death, disability and cost resulting from mental disorders including and substance use disorders (SUD) among Veterans. Through the Suicide Prevention Program, VA is taking a comprehensive public health, multi-faceted approach to address suicide for all Veterans. This approach uses bundled strategies for prevention that cut across various sectors — faith communities, employers, schools, and health care organizations, for example — to reach Veterans where they live and thrive. Learn ways to connect with VA providers using telehealth options and schedule or reschedule your appointment online. If you are requesting a new mental health appointment, please call your local VA and they will work to arrange an appointment for you. If you need same day access for mental health services, call your local VA to request this and you will be connected to care.

Extension of current mandatory authorizations and appropriations for the entire FY 2020 and for the first two months of FY 2021.

Flexibilities include: 1. SAMHSA has worked with the Drug Enforcement Administration to facilitate use of telemedicine in providing medication-assisted treatment. 2. SAMHSA has provided blanket exceptions for all stable pateints in an opioid treatment program to receive 28 days of Take-Home doses of the patient's medication for opioid use disorder.

This fact sheet explains how, grantees and subgrantees may temporarily repurpose federally purchased equipment and supplies that are not currently in use to carry out a Department grant program to meet the general education needs of students, including students with disabilities and English learners, and the instructional needs of teachers, related services providers, and other educational personnel during school closures, including those caused by COVID-19.

This fact sheets describes how grantees can transfer Federal formula grant funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), from one ESEA program to another in order to meet pressing educational needs (e.g., support distance learning, both through making necessary technology more readily available and by preparing educators to use technology to effectively facilitate distance and online learning).

This fact sheet explains how to protect students' civil rights while addressing the possible risk of an outbreak of coronavirus in school districts and postsecondary schools.

This fact sheet discusses the potential implications of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on State assessment and accountability systems.

This template is an example that may be used for the submission of a request for waivers of various regulations.

Waivers in the hiring process have expedited hiring of healthcare providers. Flexible scheduling and telework have allowed staff to continue to work from home and have kept transmission rates low, keeping employees healthy while also providing essential services. Shifting appointments to virtual means, as well as the accompanying flexibilities in IT to make that happen quickly, have allowed VA to continue to meet the mental health and suicide prevention needs of Veterans.