Family Guide is a public education Web site developed to support the efforts of parents and other caring adults to promote mental health and prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs among 7- to 18-year-olds.
ATR is a presidential initiative which provides vouchers to clients for purchase of substance abuse clinical treatment and recovery support services. The goals of the program are to expand capacity, support client choice, and increase the array of faith-based and community based providers for clinical treatment and recovery support services.
Building Blocks is an early prevention program for parents and caregivers of 3 to 6 year-olds. It is designed to educate about the basics of prevention in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in partnership with the Ad Council has launched a national awareness public service advertising (PSA) campaign designed to decrease the negative attitudes that surround mental illness and encourage young adults to support their friends who are living with mental health problems.
We are an interactive community of providers, consumers, policymakers, researchers, and public agencies at federal, state, and local levels. We share state-of-the art knowledge and promising practices to prevent and end homelessness through:
• Training and technical assistance.
• Publications and materials.
• On-line learning opportunities.
• Networking and collaboration.
Assists publicly-funded agencies, programs, and services in making the important cultural shift to a more trauma-informed environment that benefits both systems and consumers—an environment that is more supportive, comprehensively integrated, and empowering for trauma survivors.
The mission of the Older Americans Substance Abuse and Mental Health Technical Assistance Center is to enhance the quality of life and promote the physical and mental well-being of older Americans through the provision of technical assistance.
Peer-to-peer recovery support services help people initiate and sustain recovery from alcohol and drug use disorders. Some RCSP grant projects also offer support to family members of people needing, seeking, or in recovery.
Recovery Month aims to promote the societal benefits of substance abuse treatment, laud the contributions of treatment providers and promote the message that recovery from substance abuse in all its forms is possible.
The SS/HS Initiative is a unique Federal grant-making program designed to prevent violence and substance abuse among our Nation`s youth,
schools, and communities.
SAMHSA's Co-Occurring Center for Excellence (COCE) provides technical, informational, and training resources to States, communities, and providers that offer services to persons with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
SBIRT is a comprehensive, integrated, public health approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment services for persons with or at risk for substance use disorders.
StopAlcoholAbuse.Gov is a comprehensive portal of Federal resources for information on underage drinking and ideas for combating this issue. People interested in underage drinking prevention—including parents, educators, community-based organizations, and youth—will find a wealth of valuable information here.
SAMHDA provides free access to the most up-to-date, comprehensive data on drug abuse and mental health, including SAMHSA’s annual data collections, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), and National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS). Features include a variable-level search, online data analysis, easy-to-produce tables and graphs (Quick Tables), bibliographies, user support, and data downloadable in SAS, SPSS, and Stata.
This searchable directory of drug and alcohol treatment programs shows the location of facilities around the country that treat alcoholism, alcohol abuse and drug abuse problems.
SPRC provides prevention support, training, and informational materials to strengthen suicide prevention networks and to advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention.
Systems of Care is an approach to mental health services that recognizes the importance of family, school and community. It seeks to promote the full potential of every child and youth by addressing their physical, emotional, intellectual, cultural and social needs.
The Knowledge Application Program (KAP)
The Knowledge Application Program (KAP) is an initiative to coordinate all of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's (CSAT's) knowledge application activities. KAP puts knowledge about best treatment practices into the hands of providers helping individuals who seek substance abuse treatment.
CSAT’s Treatment Improvement Exchange (TIE) provides a forum for information exchange between CSAT staff and State and local alcohol and substance abuse agencies.
