EvidenceBased Practices.
The Behavioral Health Continuum of Care Model recognizes multiple opportunities for addressing behavioral health problems and disorders.
Based on the Mental Health Intervention Spectrum, first introduced in a 1994 Medicine Institute report, the model includes the following components. Oftentimes individual level’ protective factors might include a positive ‘selfimage’, self control, or social competence. People have biological and psychological characteristics that can make them vulnerable or resilient to potential behavioral health problems.
Risk and Protective Factors.
Many prevention approaches, such as selective prevention strategies, focus on helping anybody develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need to make good choices or change harmful behaviors. Learn more from the SAMHSA Center for Prevention Application Technologies’ comprehensive review of ‘classroombased’ programs. The Community Mental Health Services Block Grant directs states to set aside 5percentage of their MHBG allocation, which is administered by SAMHSA, to support evidencebased programs that address anybody needs with early serious mental illness, including psychotic disorders. Also, lots of these strategies can be ‘classroom based’. Anyway, early intervention also is critical to treating mental illness before it can cause tragic results like serious impairment, unemployment, homelessness, poverty, and suicide. The Guidance for FY2014 Revision 2015 MHBG Behavioral Health Assessment and Plan provides additional information.
Community coalitions are increasingly used as a vehicle to foster improvements in community health. Additionally, given their ability to leverage existing resources in the community and convene diverse organizations, community coalitions connote a collaboration type that is considered to be sustainable over time. Community coalitions differ from other types of coalitions types in that they include professional and grassroots members committed to work gether to influence ‘long term’ health and welfare practices in their community.
Since they are among the most difficult social problems to prevent or reduce, experts attest that an optimal mix of prevention interventions is required to address substance use issues in communities.
The DFC Support Program has two goals. So, National Office Drug Control Policy and the SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Prevention support Drug Free Communities Support Program grants, which were created by the DrugFree Communities Act of 1997. Notice that while others may document their effectiveness based on other sources of information and empirical data, some interventions should be evidencebased. SAMHSA’s program grantees should consider comprehensive solutions that fit their particular needs communities and population, within cultural context, and take into consideration unique local circumstances, including community readiness.
Continuum of Care.
Longterm’ analyses suggest a consistent record of positive accomplishment for substance use outcomes in communities with a DFC grantee from 2002 to past prevalence ’30day’ use of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana declined significantly among both middle school and high school students.
Learn more from the DrugFree Communities Support Program. Though significant, the declines in past prevalence 30 day marijuana use were less pronounced, declining by 3 percentage points among middle school students and by 7 percentage points among high school students. Then, while declining by 8 percentage points among middle school students and declining by 8 percentage points among high school students, past prevalence 30 day alcohol use dropped the most in absolute percentage point terms. Considering the above said. Past prevalence 30 day bacco use declined by 9 percentage points among middle school students, and by 2 percentage points among high school students from DFC grantees’ first report to their most recent report. National Evaluation Report.
Ain’t limited to, an individual ability or organization to interact effectively with people of different cultures, cultural and linguistic competence includes. Data have shown that early intervention following a serious first episode mental illness can make an impact. Prevention practitioners must understand the cultural and linguistic community context, and they must have the willingness and skills to work within this context, to produce positive change. For instance, coordinated, specialized services offered during or shortly after psychosis first episode are effective for improving clinical and functional outcomes.
SAMHSA is a leader in prevention promotion and early intervention, most notably through its Strategic Prevention Framework and participation in the President’s Now Is The Time initiative.
Given the large investment in community coalitions, researchers are beginning to systematically explore the factors that affect community sustainability coalitions once their initial funding ends. The federal government has increasingly used community coalitions as a programmatic approach to address emerging community health issues. Community coalitions are composed of diverse organizations that form an alliance with an eye to pursue a similar goal. Community activities coalitions include outreach, education, prevention, service delivery, capacity building, empowerment, community action, and systems change. Basically, the presumption is that successful community coalitions are able to identify new resources to continue their activities and sustain their impact in the community over time.
Improving cultural and linguistic competence is an important strategy for addressing persistent behavioral health disparities experienced by diverse communities, including the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender population and racial and ethnic minority groups. These diverse populations tend to have less access to prevention services and poorer behavioral health outcomes. SAMHSA has demonstrated that behavioral health is essential to health, prevention works, treatment is effective, and people recover from mental and/or substance use disorders.
Environmental change strategies have specific advantages over strategies that focus exclusively on the individual.
Visit the SAMHSA Center for Prevention Application Technologies’ Evaluating Environmental Change Strategies webpage for more prevention information and resources. When implemented effectively, further they can create shifts in both individual attitudes and community norms that can have longterm, substantial effects. With all that said. Strategies that target the environment include. They have the potential to produce widespread changes in behavior at the population level, because they target a much broader audience.
Preventing mental and/or substance use disorders and related problems in children, adolescents, and young adults is critical to Americans’ behavioral and physical health.
Behaviors and symptoms that signal a behavioral development disorder often manifest two to four years before a disorder is present. Normally, results from the 2014 NSDUH report showed that of those adults with any mental illness, 182percent had a substance use disorder while those adults without mental illness only had a 3percent rate of substance use disorder in the past year. People with a mental health issue are more likely to use alcohol or drugs than those not affected by a mental illness. So, behavioral health disorders might be prevented, or symptoms can be mitigated, if communities and families can intervene early.
Cultural Awareness and Competency.
Universal prevention approaches include environmental use prevention strategies, which are tailored to local community characteristics and address the root causes of risky behaviors by creating environments that make it easier to act in healthy ways.
These successful execution strategies often involves lawmakers, local officials, and community leaders, as well as the acceptance and active involvement of members from various community sectors. Basically, consuming alcohol becomes less convenient. This use strategy type may offer fewer places for young people to purchase alcohol.
