This toolkit features helpful resources, event ideas, suggestions, and samples on how to reach local media, fact sheets for key constituency groups and special audiences, and more. All of the materials can help you convey the 2008 observance theme: Join the Voices for Recovery: Real People, Real Recovery. The materials focus on treatment providers, families, faith-based organizations, employers and civil service workers.

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Date Added: 06/15/08
Inventory #: RMKIT-08

Under the leadership of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), the substance use disorders treatment field is shifting from an acute care model of treatment to a chronic care approach, known as recovery-oriented systems of care. Recovery support services - services provided to people and families during the initiation, ongoing, and post-acute stages of their recovery - are an integral component of recovery-oriented systems of care. The purpose of this White Paper is twofold: (1) to describe our understanding of the present state of recovery support services; and (2) to lay a framework for future activities and products that will support the continuing development of recovery support services.

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Date Added: 06/15/08
Inventory #: SMA08-4315

This TIP, Treatment of Adolescents With Substance Use Disorders, presents information on substance abuse treatment for adolescent clients. Adolescents differ from adults both physiologically and emotionally as they make the transition from child to adult and, thus, require treatment adapted to their needs. This TIP focuses on ways to specialize treatment for adolescents, as well as on common and effective program components and approaches being used today.

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Date Added: 06/15/08
Inventory #: SMA08-4080

This TIP, Combining Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Treatment With Diversion for Juveniles in the Justice System, provides a strategy for diverting youth with substance abuse problems from further involvement with the juvenile justice system. It presents a process for communities to use in building new linkages and partnerships among treatment programs, community health and social services, and the juvenile court to plan juvenile diversion programs.

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Date Added: 06/15/08
Inventory #: SMA08-4073

The purpose of the Drug-Free Workplace Kit is to provide public and private workplaces, from small to large and from local to global, with credible, authoritative, evidence-based information, resources, and tools for producing and maintaining drug-free workplace policies and programs. The Kit was assembled by the Division of Workplace Programs (DWP), in the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. DWP has unique and nationally important regulatory, knowledge development, and technical assistance roles and responsibilities for Federal and non-Federal workplaces, with respect to their drug-free workplace policies and programs.

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Date Added: 05/15/08
Inventory #: SMA07-4230

Youth substance use in the past year was generally higher within one-parent households than within two-parent households for both mother-child and father-child pairs and were generally highest among youth in father-child pairs within one-parent households. Parent awareness of youth use of cigarettes and alcohol in the past year increased with the youth’s increasing age among both. Rates of parent awareness of youth substance use in the past year were generally higher among mothers in mother-child pairs than among fathers in father-child pairs and were generally highest among mothers in mother-child pairs within one-parent households.

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Date Added: 05/15/08
Inventory #: NSDUH08-0424

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Aging (HHS AOA), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) are among the many sponsors supporting Older Americans Month, a great time to bring attention to the issues that affect older adults. This year’s theme is “Working Together for Strong, Healthy, and Supportive Communities,” which speaks to the opportunities we have to create better care and reinforce healthier societies for all ages.

Date Added: 05/15/08

The Division of Workplace Programs (DWP) in the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) recently updated the Drug-Free Workplace Kit! A print version and new website designed for employers are available to the public, allowing you to make additions to your kit by downloading and printing parts of the online version.

Date Added: 05/12/08

Data from the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) indicate that 17.0 percent of youth aged 12 to 17 used cigarettes in the past year, 32.9 percent used alcohol, and 13.2 percent used marijuana. Parents are encouraged to communicate with their children about drugs and alcohol, and some research has examined the extent to which parents are aware of their children’s drug and alcohol use. Studies focusing on the general population have found high levels of parent awareness of adolescent cigarette use, but awareness of alcohol use is low; findings on parent awareness of adolescent marijuana use are mixed.

Date Added: 05/06/08

Impaired driving continues to be a severe and persistent threat to public safety, and the number of deaths from traffic crashes involving impaired drivers is higher than the number of deaths from all other causes among persons aged 3 to 33. In 2006, an estimated 30.5 million persons aged 12 or older drove under the influence of alcohol at least once in the past 12 months (“past year”), and 10.2 million persons aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs during the past year.

Date Added: 04/29/08

The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's Knowledge Application Program (CSAT KAP) is pleased to offer its first online e-learning course, Acamprosate: A New Medication for Alcohol Use Disorders. The course provides information about the use, side effects, and contraindications of acamprosate; information to discuss with clients; and a comparison of medications used to treat alcohol use disorders.

Date Added: 04/24/08

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has several resources and materials available to the public that relate to Alcohol Awareness Month, taking place this April.

Date Added: 04/22/08

There are no new observances for June.

There are no upcoming observances for July.

National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month (May 1 - 31, 2008)
National Alcohol- and Other Drug-Related Birth Defects Week (May 11 - 17, 2008)

• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and the Criminal Justice System
  
• My Sibling Has a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Can I Catch It?
  
• The Physical Effects of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
  
• What Do I Do? Helping Your Kids Understand their Sibling's Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
  
• What You Need to Know: How Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Co-Occur with Mental Illness
  
• What You Need to Know: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders among Native Americans
  
• What You Need to Know: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders by the Numbers
  
• What You Need to Know: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: When Your Child Faces the Juvenile Justice System
  

Mental Health Month (May 1 - 31, 2008)

• Campaign for Mental Health Recovery: What a Difference a Friend Makes Brochure (PDF)
  
• Campaign for Mental Health Recovery: Un Amigo Marca Una Gran Diferencia (Spanish Version, PDF)
  
• National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery
  
• Building Bridges Mental Health Consumers and Primary Health Care Representatives in Dialogue
  
• Recovering Your Mental Health: Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery - A Self-Help Guide
  
• Recovering Your Mental Health: Developing A Recovery and Wellness Lifestyle - A Self-Help Guide
  

Children’s Mental Health Week (May 4 - 10, 2008)

• Helping Children and Youth with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Systems of Care
  
• Sistemas de cuidado: Ayudando a ninos y jovenes con trastorno bipolar (Spanish Version)
  
• Family Guide to Systems of Care for Children with Mental Health Needs
  
• Helping Children and Youth with Bipolar Disorder: Systems of Care
  
• Helping Children and Youth with Conduct Disorder & Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  
• Helping Children and Youth with Major Depression: Systems of Care
  
• Helping Children and Youth with Serious Mental Health Needs: Systems of Care
  
• Tips for Talking to Children after a Disaster: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
  

National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day (May 7, 2008)

• Anxiety Disorders
  
• Tips for Managing and Preventing Stress: A Guide for Emergency Response and Public Safety Workers (PDF)
  
• Tips for Survivors of a Traumatic Event: Managing Your Stress During a Disaster (PDF)