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SAMHSA News Bulletin

Date: 11/16/2009
Media Contact: SAMHSA News
Telephone: 240-276-2130

New SAMHSA Web site Provides Tools to Help Address Co-Occurring Disorders and Homelessness

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announces the availability of a new Web site to help SAMHSA grantees, health professionals and the public address problems of homelessness and co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders. The site, http://chab.samhsa.gov/ features an on-line library of tools that are designed to advance the field and improve the effectiveness of prevention, treatment and recovery programs operated by SAMHSA’s Co-Occurring and Homeless Activities Branch (CHAB) and other service providers.

 

The new CHAB Web site provides a platform for creating an interactive community of providers, consumers, policymakers, researchers, and public agencies at federal, state, and local levels working to prevent and treat homelessness and co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders.

 

“Persons who are homeless often have to contend with a wide range of issues including medical, pharmacological, and psychiatric issues, substance use, and other disabling conditions,” said SAMHSA Acting Administrator Eric Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H. “The CHAB Web site provides valuable new tools to develop more comprehensive and effective means for serving this population.”

 

The Web site also provides users with the opportunity to read interviews with experts, engage in social networking, interface with others to exchange information about effective approaches to common problems, and learn about upcoming events.  The CHAB site integrates Web 2.0 functions for facilitating information sharing and other activities.   

 

The new Web site -- a component of SAMHSA’s Homelessness Resource Center (HRC) (http://www.homeless.samhsa.gov/) -- also incorporates SAMHSA’s own expertise and experience to help users find recovery models that may best suit their needs -- empowering people to achieve recovery and live productive lives in their communities.

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SAMHSA is a public health agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. The agency is responsible for improving the accountability, capacity and effectiveness of the nation's substance abuse prevention, addictions treatment, and mental health services delivery system.


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