Science News About Diversity and Ethnic Groups
- New Toolkit Offers Ways to Evaluate Suicide Prevention Efforts in Arctic Communities
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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), in collaboration with the Mental Health Innovation Network and other federal partners, has released the RISING SUN toolkit to help clinicians, communities, policymakers, and researchers measure the impact and effectiveness of suicide prevention efforts in rural and tribal communities.
- Hubs Help Native American Communities Address Youth Suicide
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Three NIMH-funded collaborative research hubs are exploring the factors behind the high suicide rates among American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) youth and designing and testing approaches to preventing suicide.
- Coping With Familial Mental Illness in Stressful Times
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“An NIH/NIMH lifer” reveals how his Asian American family successfully coped with severe mental illness compounded by discrimination.
- A New Look at Racial/Ethnic Differences in Mental Health Service Use Among Adults
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New report on mental health service use among racial/ethnic groups
- The 22nd NIMH Conference on Mental Health Services Research
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The 22nd National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Conference on Mental Health Services Research (MHSR): Research in Pursuit of a Learning Mental Health Care System, will be convened on April 23–25, 2014, at the Natcher Conference Center on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Campus, Bethesda, MD.
