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A NEW Scottish foreign exchange business is planning to build a significant high street presence before the end of the year.
Scot FX is a venture between Direct Sharedeal founder Gordon Perry and former Ernst & Young partner David Tunstall.
The pair have also recently brought in David Hale, who has worked in foreign exchange for decades including spells in Russia and the US, as a partner.
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The business, which has offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, has its website live and plans to launch an online trading business soon.
Its first high street store will be opening in Musselburgh in the next few weeks and the plan is to have up to a dozen shops and employ around 30 by the end of 2012.
The founders are actively courting the small and medium-sized business market in Scotland, believing they can offer better deals on transactions in foreign currencies than anything currently available through major banks.
Mr Perry said: "We believe we are the only independent Scottish firm covering every aspect of currency, from shops to high net worth individuals to business.
"The first shop is opening within the next four weeks and the plan is to have between eight and 12 by the year-end.
"The first one is in Musselburgh which will be followed by Coatbridge. Musselburgh is basically the test site to make sure there are no problems, then we can hit the main high streets in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen."
Mr Tunstall was previously an adviser to Mr Perry and the pair have been working on the plans for Scot FX for around a year after deciding to come out of semi-retirement.
They are confident of being able to compete against major financial providers and have set ambitious growth targets.
Mr Tunstall: "There really is only so much golf you can play, so we got our heads together and looked at what we could do.
"It is the nature of the Scottish economy that there are a lot of small companies either buying goods from abroad or selling them abroad which need funds in euros or dollars or whatever else.
"We will provide payment ser-vices for individuals or small businesses who are moving money internationally.
"That could be buying a property abroad or purchasing goods but we'll do it at a rate which is more competitive than they would get at a high street bank."
Mr Perry added: "We have both been in financial services for a long time so have a lot of contacts and have been getting in touch with a lot of people.
"I'm confident we can compete against the banks. That is why we have set this up and are going for it."
The business has secured its regulatory approval from the Financial Services Authority and wants its brand to become quickly known across Scotland.
Mr Perry was one of four former Aitken Campbell directors who set up stockbroker Direct Sharedeal in Glasgow in 1999.
He stepped back from the firm towards the end of 2007 and it was acquired in 2008 by secretive former non-executive director Roland Witton who was based in Singapore.
In 2010, Direct Sharedeal was fined more than £100,000 by the FSA after a company acting on its behalf used misleading sales pitches.
The business was placed in administration last year.
Mr Tunstall worked in audit and corporate finance at Ernst & Young in Edinburgh, latterly in charge of around 70 staff, before becoming a consultant in 2009.


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New York Knicks 2010-11 season
Worse Case: 34-48
Best Case: 40-42
Average Case: 37-45
The Knicks will go through growing pains to learn how to maximize from their players and team as a whole. I think they will make a run at the playoffs towards the end of the season. I also think Felton is a big plus and his addition gives the Knicks another 5-7 wins. Without Felton, the Knicks are probably no better than last year.
I do think that Amare's lack of defense is of major concern. The man cannot play man-on-man defense especially on the perimeter. So, if he has to guard a player that can play the high post, he is screwed. I would switch someone else on him. His post D is much better at least, but still not great. I would even say average to slight below average.
Amare is still an upgrade from Lee overall, disregarding rebounding ability. He is better offensively and defensively. Felton is an upgrade from Duhon and the other players are definitely an upgrade from last year. So, logically, the Knicks should win another 8-10 wins. But I cannot emphasize the chemistry enough. I can't but thing the Knicks will be 10 below at some point.
There are many teams better than the Knicks. Heat, Bulls, Bucks, Magic, Celtics, Hawks (especially if they resign Crawford) are all better. We will compete for the final 2 spots of the playoffs.
I hear all this hype, and it's great that Knicks fans are hopeful, as I am. How could you not be? We have cap flexibility. When was the last time the Knicks had any cap flexibility. Walsh has been known as a fiscally savvy GM, and the proof is in the pudding. I also like the enthusiasm with all these trade scenarios, which shows the creativity of NYK fans. But, in foresight, if you will, getting future (potential) free agents, namely Melo, CP3, DWill should be our goal.

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text: Okay, I feel stupid here. But I can't get this top closed for anything!! It is a hinged top of sorts. The hinge should slide down the back of the table in a long groove. But there is no sliding, there isn't a release of any sort on the table back or underside - can't figure it out. Tried spraying some WD40 on it, didn't help. I have posted a couple of pictures below so if anyone out there has a table that closes in this way - maybe you can let me know the trick to getting the top closed? The 3rd picture is the wood thing that comes out and supports the table when it is opened - it should slide all the way back in. But - this is as closed as I can get it!


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A boy held in prison of his home, desperately looking to play outside - Chefchouen medina.
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quillo (11856) 2010-09-21 9:53
Hola Marek :
Interesting capture .... natural and spontaneous,
with good details of color and light ........... and,
the delight of the look of the child.
Congratulations for the good work.
bhargab_c (72) 2010-09-21 11:59
The wall at the left is a bit distracting. A more bold and frontal shot of the kid would have been better, perhaps!
baclama (18952) 2010-09-21 12:26
heureusement qu'il a une visage sympatique et n'a pas l'air tres malheureux....
c'est juste des barreaux pour ne pas tomber?
une belle idée, joliement colorée!
leo61 (0) 2010-09-25 10:55
Hi Marek!
You had a good eye to see this and managed a good shot.
I like a lot how this kid is framed by this wonderful blue.
In November I`ll be in Morrocco ,hope I bring back some good shots.
Regards and welcome to trekearth.
cornejo (51046) 2010-10-24 4:41
Greeting Marek, very pretty photo and good shot, very good work, congratulation.
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- Date Taken: 2010-08-24
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A couple of years ago, in a small Dominican town near the Haitian border, I met and became friend with Georgette Michelen and her family.
Georgette lives in a beautiful, enormous wooden house her father built at the beginning of last century: "The House of the Sun".
The house has thirty-three external doors and it shines in a decayed, almost surreal beauty, replete of a long, fascinating oral history, virtually embedded in its walls.
With Georgette's blessing, I embarked in a completely self-financed project: an extensive photographic exploration of the house, for nearly two months.
During my daily visits, I audio-recorded many hours of Georgette's recollections and photographed the entire house both with traditional techniques and also using VR panoramic photography equipment.
My work was primarily motivated by a sense of impermanence I shared with Georgette; a feeling, perhaps a certainty, that this house and the marvelous mnemonic capsule it embodied wasn't to last much longer due to Georgette's age as well as to a brutal agenda of urban "modernization", quite rampant in many Dominican cities nowadays.
While brainstorming with Georgette on how to save and protect the house in a likely bleak –looking future, I promised her that I would try to edit the best shots as well as some of her thoughts and recollections, derived from the many audio recordings, into a book.
Hopefully, though the book and some web presence, such as an interactive VR panoramic tour of the building, we would find someone interested and able to help preserve the incredible house her father built.
Two years and many working hours later, on my own and with the help of several friends of mine, both a self-published book and a website now exist: my own, humble contribution to preserve at least some of the images, sounds and memories associated with this wonderful building, if not the building itself.
Although a powerful architecture-loving magnate has not contacted Georgette, to help her save The House of the Sun, yet, I recently had the immense pleasure of traveling to see her in the Dominican Republic and present her with a copy of the book.
As she turned the pages, almost in disbelief, her face glowing, she would only stop smiling to thank me over and over again for all my hard work and commitment.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to raise any real money or find anyone to finance the restoration of the building yet, but as I left Georgette inside her mastodon, crumbling home, delightedly immersed in admiring and enjoying what she already called "her" book, I felt this probably was to be remembered as one of my biggest achievements of 2012.
And indeed, this felt a damn good reason to keep doing what I had done for the past thirty years: tell stories worth telling, through my images.
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There's a fond belief still current in some circles that the art world is ruled by the principal of merit: If art is good, it will be successful, and if it's not successful, it must not be any good. If you believe that, I have a bridge you might be interested in buying.
It's one thing to say that the world isn't fair (alert the media!), however, and quite another to look at exactly how that unfairness plays out in some specific corner of the world. The former, though it may make the speaker feel better, is easily dismissed by anyone not already in agreement, while the latter actually provides useful information that may be useful in bringing about change.
Lynn Hershman Leeson's documentary !Women Art Revolution belongs to the second camp. She traces the struggles of women artists fighting to be recognized by the mainstream art world, illustrated with archival footage (some of it shot in her own living room) and interviews with those who were there and know the real story firsthand. Judy Chicago is probably the best-known of the female artists interviewed (others include Martha Rosler, Carolee Schneemann, Faith Ringgold, and Howardena Pindell), but all of them are articulate and many are funny, as well. Leeson ties the women's art movement into the general social upheavals of the 1960s, as well as the petering out of minimalism within the art world at about the same time.
!Women Art Revolution is a real trip down memory lane for people involved in the early feminist movement in the United States (the soundtrack alone will push your nostalgia button), and a great resource for teaching, particularly in art, U.S. history, and women's studies programs. It has to be said that some of the art, particular that of the performance variety, seems kind of silly today, but that's probably true of art from any period, especially art that challenges prevailing conventions. On the other hand, much of the art (and Leeson includes many photos of work by women artists from the 1960s to today) is strong stuff, and at least as good as a lot of what you see in galleries now. If this documentary does nothing more than make you question, the next time you're in a museum or gallery, why the particular artists represented are there, and whose work might be missing, it's done its job.
Extras on the DVD include interviews with comic artist Spain Rodriguez, philanthropist Elizabeth A. Sackler, and Hershman Leeson; a feature on the associated website rawwar.org; and two theatrical trailers. | Sarah Boslaugh


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In the past three weeks, we have been examining recent data on computing and engineering degrees. We have already reported encouraging news about the overall growth in those degrees and mixed news about the extent to which African Americans and Latinos are sharing in that growth. Today's blog examines how women are faring in these critical fields. Our verdict: there is not much to celebrate yet, but there may be some glimmers of hope.
Let's start with the glass half empty. The following chart looks far too familiar, even though it contains some new data on the gender disparity in computing degrees:
While men have surged past their 2004 peak by a healthy 27 percent, women just barely cleared their 2003 peak last year.
And the above chart conveys the good news, relatively speaking: it represents trends in bachelor's and higher degrees, where women fared the best. Women have lost far more ground in degrees and certificates below the bachelor's level:
Women's share of bachelor's and higher degrees tumbled by more than six percentage points since 2001, but their share of sub-bachelor's credentials plunged by more than 20 percentage points over the same period.
Why is this a concern? Economists expect computing jobs to surge in the coming decade, and computing jobs that require less than a bachelor's degree are no exception. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that, between 2014 and 2024, jobs for computer support specialists and web developers will grow by 11.6 and 26.6 percent, respectively. Over that decade, these two occupations will generate 265,000 job openings whose average pay well exceeds the $36,200 average salary for all occupations. The past decade and a half have seen women's prospects for such good jobs plummet.
And now for the glass half full: While some of these data seem discouraging on their face, the charts do suggest that we have finally stanched the bleeding. The decline in computing degrees and certificates going to women has leveled off.
There may be much better news to come. The last five years have seen an unprecedented national focus on girls in computer science. It will take a few years yet for that focus to affect college graduation data.
At first blush, there seems to be more to celebrate in engineering than in computer science. Women made small gains in engineering degrees at the bachelor's level and above, even as they earned a declining share of credentials below the bachelor's level:
The share of engineering degrees that went to women climbed 2.4 percentage points between 2009 and 2015. The decline in sub-bachelor's degrees is less concerning in engineering than in computing, because the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects little or no growth in engineering technology jobs, which generally require less than a bachelor's degree.
Things are moving in the right direction for women in engineering, but too slowly. At this rate, women will have to wait roughly three quarters of a century to reach parity with men.
A closer look at the data reveals stronger trends in master's and doctoral degrees since 2001:
Women's share of master's degrees rose by almost four percentage points between 2001 and 2015, and their share of doctoral degrees advanced by more than six and a half percentage points. Women's percentage of bachelor's degrees experiences a slow and steady slump before 2009 but women have regained all of their lost ground since then. Initiatives to diversify graduate degrees may be bearing fruit.
These data suggest that initiatives to diversify graduate degrees may be paying off, which in turn can promote more female role models among U.S. engineering professors[i] That said, we still have far to go before women receive a proportionate share of doctoral degrees.
[i] Data are scarce on how many women serve on engineering faculty. Researchers should study whether women's progress in doctoral degrees is affecting the gender balance of engineering departments.
Say Happy Birthday to Sir Frederick Grant Banting, a Canadian scientist who became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine and the subject of today's Google Doodle. Hats off to Banting whose interest in solving a world problem—diabetes—resulted in the mass production of insulin for medical treatment.
Banting's extraordinary work in insulin built on the ideas and experiments of other scientists. English physiologist Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer created the term "insuline" after predicting its absence from the pancreas caused diabetes. The published works of Sharpey-Schafer and a few others led Banting to believe he could isolate and extract the insulin from the pancreas. Banting shared his 1923 Nobel prize with John James Rickard Macleod, a physiology professor at the University of Toronto. Macleod provided the lab space as well as an assistant, Dr. Charles Best, for Banting to begin experimenting with the isolation. In 1921, the talented team successfully extracted insulin from animal pancreases. And by 1922, insulin trials began with injections for humans. Banting and team allowed the patents for their methods to stay with the University of Toronto. So later that year in 1922, the University issued licenses for developing manufactured insulin.
Banting's contribution goes beyond just STEM and reaches the millions of people who could live with diabetes long after his passing. But it all began with an inquisitive mind and a plan to pursue a solution. It's exciting to think what other world problems real STEM heroes will work together to vanquish.
On October 26, we shared some good news about degrees in computer science and engineering: Since the recession, they grew much faster than degrees and certificates overall. Today, we take a closer look at students of color in those fields, and we have at least some good news to share--mixed with much that should concern us.
For every race, the number of bachelor's and advanced degrees in computer science and engineering has grown faster than the overall population between 18 and 24. In other words, your typical black, Latino, or white person of college age was more likely to earn one of these degrees in 2015 than in 2001. On balance, that's good news for everyone.
Of course, it's far too soon to declare victory, because a small number degrees can grow by a large percentage and still be a small number of degrees.
The more important question is whether people of color are earning degrees in proportion to their share of the population. In the best of all possible worlds, for example, Latinos would earn 21 percent of degrees, because they comprise 21 percent of the college-age population.
The reality falls far short of that ideal, but there are glimmers of hope.
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For African Americans, the picture in computer science is mixed. The share of bachelor's degrees they receive has fallen off since the high point of 2007, but new data suggest that their share of master's degrees surged for almost a decade before retreating somewhat after 2013. African Americans are actually overrepresented among Americans who receive master's degrees.[i]
Why? A report in Science Magazine cited this trend in Master's degrees as early as 2011 and speculated that efforts to attract more African Americans into computer science graduate degrees were bearing fruit. That may well be true, but disappointing trends in bachelor's degrees will surely thwart further progress in advanced degrees.
Alas, it is hard to find much good news about African Americans in engineering. Their share of bachelor's degrees has declined slightly since 2005, and their share of master's degrees has barely kept pace with population growth.
This problem may arise from the fact that African American students have limited access to advanced high school classes—like calculus—that can be gateways to engineering in college.
Latinos earn a smaller share of computer science degrees than African Americans do, but they are making steady, albeit slow, gains, mostly at the bachelor's level.
If you look hard, you can see the gap between Latinos' share of bachelor's degrees (the dark blue line) and their share of the population (the red line) narrowing, especially after 2009. Since that year, Latinos' share of bachelor's degrees has risen roughly 2 ½ percentage points while their share of the population rose by less than a percentage point. In the previous six years, their share of bachelor's degrees had risen more slowly--roughly 1 ½ percentage points.
Latinos are also making gains in engineering:
Their share of bachelor's degrees has risen almost four percentage points since 2007, roughly twice as fast as their share of the population over the same period. Master's degrees have seen nearly parallel gains since 2009.
Why have Latinos gained in some areas where African Americans have been treading water? It's hard to say without more evidence. More research could help us learn from our successes and replicate them.
Despite some encouraging signs, it's hardly time to pop the champagne corks. If the pace of change doesn't pick up, it would take more than a decade for Latinos to close engineering gaps, and even longer for them to close computer science gaps. African Americans would never close the gaps in bachelor's-level engineering and computer science.
Yes, we have made some progress, but minority students' current K-12 experience will impose a low ceiling on that progress. As CTEq's state-by-state Vital Signs website demonstrates, students of color still have the least access to the resources, facilities, and classes that best prepare students for college-level STEM.
There are carefully-vetted strategies and programs that can help students overcome hurdles like these. For dozens of programs that can prove they're making a difference, take a look at CTEq's STEMworks honor roll of effective STEM education programs. For all their accomplishments, programs like these are not going to close the gaps unless the nation rallies around them with the public and private commitment and resources they need to reach many more young people.
Incremental progress just won't do as long as STEM literacy remains a gatekeeper to individual and national prosperity.
Stay tuned next week for the most recent data on women in computer science and engineering.
In 1816, Timothy Pitkin, U.S. Representative from Connecticut, wrote that "Political Arithmetick is an art daily growing more important in the United States." He urged that data "…ought to be studied by all who aspire to regulate, or improve the state of the nation; and even by all who would judge rightly of their duties as citizens, and who are conscientiously scrupulous, even in private life, of so casting their influence into the scale of parties, as best to promote the general happiness and prosperity."
Fast forward two hundred years and ask yourself how many of us understand statistical data well enough to be able to "improve the state of the nation." Far too few is probably a good guess. This lack of knowledge empowers too many people to make outlandish assertions with apparent impunity—and that includes pitchmen, political candidates, pundits, and media figures.
Where is the outcry, for example, when the media report polls showing one candidate winning over the other when the difference is within the margin of error? It would be a welcome change if Americans en masse (politely, one hopes) called out reporters who mistakenly attribute the natural variability of a sample for the outcome of a horse race.
Why don't more editors chastise reporters and TV commentators who give solemn credence to the results of a single poll in the same way they demand three corroborating pieces of evidence for other pronouncements? Why don't more reporters acknowledge that some polls are widely seen as less reputable than others, due perhaps to inadequate sample size or a persistent demonstrated bias?
We don't stand for any candidate or political point of view here—but we're passionate about campaigning for quantitative literacy for all high school graduates.
In 1997, Lynn Steen warned that "an innumerate citizen today is as vulnerable as the illiterate peasant of Gutenberg's time." Surely that says it all.
Some of the best known (and coolest!) scientists, mathematicians, and engineers come from the big screen. And whether you realize it or not, these fictional characters shape ideas about who should pursue STEM and who shouldn't. Marvel, the popular superhero comic book and box office hit creator, takes that mind-shaping responsibility quite seriously. This month, expect to see some super smart and diverse superheroes on the comic book stands. With these new takes on classic heroes, Marvel cleverly sends a message that celebrates the breadth of STEM fields while encouraging an untapped market's interest in those fields through relatable characters. Marvel is helping to save the STEM universe, one comic book cover at a time!
"Our characters have been exciting fans for ages," says the senior vice president of print, sales, and marketing, David Gabriel. "With our new STEAM [Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics] Variants, we plan to continue to motivate our fans to explore their passions in the fields of science, technology, engineering, art, and math and present these disciplines through some of our favorite young heroes who are doing just that--following their dreams and preparing for the challenges that await them ahead."
The STEM-themed covers feature some of your old favorites with an inclusive twist—like bi-racial Spider Man Miles Morales, Korean American Amadeus Cho as Hulk, and Tony Stark's Iron Man successor 15-year-old African-American science genius Riri
"[Riri's character and story are] inspired by the world around me and not seeing that represented enough in popular culture," says Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis.Williams. Also, expect introductions to new characters like GwenPool and Moon Girl. Marvel has evolved both the look and the stories of their comic book characters to better reflect today's world. The creators seek to spark the academic genius in the leaders of tomorrow—no matter what those geniuses look like and where they come from.
As the next generation prepares to tackle the world's toughest challenges, Marvel's efforts to engage everyone through fiction bring us one step closer to STEMspiring many more young minds.
Photos provided courtesy of Marvel.com


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The Indian Health Service (IHS) released Dear Tribal Leader letter on May 2, 2017, outlining their new efforts to combat the opioid epidemic in Tribal communities. The letter outlines initiatives taken by the Federal agency to improve coordination and responsiveness to the growing epidemic, while highlighting recent advancements such as the establishment of the IHS National Committee on Heroin, Opioid, and Pain Efforts (HOPE) Committee through official charter. To learn more, access the announcement HERE.
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National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan 2017 - 2020
on Wednesday, March 8, 2017
This Action Plan is the nation's road map for addressing viral hepatitis in the United States. Everyone has a role to play in the battle against viral hepatitis. Register now for the webinar on March 8th and learn more about the critical role(s) of various partners and how you can become a part of our national response to hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
The National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan 2017-2020 (Action Plan) is posted and ready to share HERE. The webinar will include an overview of the Action Plan, what's new/changed, and perspectives from federal, national, and state partners.
This is the second webinar, in a three-part series, that aims to enhance services for Trans populations and promote the National Transgender HIV Testing Day. This interactive and engaging webinar will cover strategies to help agencies and health departments improve services for Trans populations.This initiative encourages community-based organizations (CBOs), health jurisdictions and HIV prevention programs to respond by hosting local trans HIV testing community events (HIV testing, visibility campaign, community forums) and/or develop trans specific HIV testing.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
2:00pm - 3:00pm Eastern
(1pm Central, 12pm Mountain, 11am Pacific)
For more information and to register, visit the link provided HERE.
Released in December, 2016, the Tribal Behavioral Health Agenda (TBHA) is the first-ever Tribally-informed and Tribally-directed behavioral health blueprint for improving behavioral health outcomes in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. The TBHA provides an in-depth analysis of the current state of behavioral health in Indian Country and outlines best practices, recommendations and priorities that can help inform program and policy development at the Tribal, Federal and State levels. Access the TBHA HERE.
Join us for the next Zero Suicide webinar on Thursday, December 8 2016 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM ET entitled After a Suicide: The Zero Suicide Approach to Postvention in Health and Behavioral Healthcare Settings
A patient's death by suicide in health and behavioral healthcare organizations can have a significant impact on family members, other patients, and staff. It may be even more destabilizing or demoralizing in systems where significant changes to improve suicide care have been implemented.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications from now through December 12, 2016 to expand and/or enhance substance abuse disorder treatment services in existing programs. SAMHSA is also providing a pre-application webinar for interested parties on Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 2PM Eastern.
Do you want more information or have questions regarding the previously announced Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) grants to expand substance use treatment capacity in adult drug courts and adult tribal healing to wellness courts? If so, please participate in the pre-application informational webinar on Thursday, October 27!
Click here for webinar information.
As a reminder, grant applications are due by Monday, December 12, 2016.
Deadline: December 12, 2016
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2017 Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity in Adult Drug Courts and Adult Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts.
The purpose of this program is to expand and/or enhance substance use disorder treatment services in existing programs. Grantees will be expected to provide a coordinated, multi-system approach designed to combine the sanctioning power of drug courts with effective substance use disorder treatment services to break the cycle of criminal behavior, alcohol and/or drug use, and incarceration or other penalties.
Priority for use of grant funds should be given to addressing gaps in the continuum of treatment for individuals in these courts who have substance use disorders or co-occurring substance use and mental disorder (COD) treatment needs. Grant funds must be used to serve people diagnosed with a substance use disorder as their primary condition.
SAMHSA will use discretion in allocating funding for these awards, taking into consideration the specific drug court model (Adult Treatment Drug Courts and Adult Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts), as appropriate, and the number of applications received per model type. Current Closing Date for Applications: December 12, 2016.
For the second year in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support (OSTLTS), the National Council for Behavioral Health (National Council) is pleased to announce the 2016-2017 Behavioral Health Training and Technical Assistance for State, Tribal, Territorial, and Local Health Officials Program.
Through a Request for Application (RFA) process, up to forty (40) health officials will be selected to participate in the second cohort of this 8-month initiative. Selected health officials will gain direct access to behavioral health (mental health and substance use disorders) training and technical assistance to enhance and/or initiate behavioral health efforts within their jurisdictions.
Additionally, participants will have access to the following:
Program Overview
From November 2016 through June 2017, the program participants will participate in one (1) introductory webinar, one (1) two-day in-person training, the National Council's Annual Conference, and gain access to additional ongoing trainings and resources. The two-day in-person training (April 1-2, 2017) will precede the National Council's 2017 Conference from April 3-5, 2017 in Seattle, WA. Program participants will also be granted the opportunity to attend the National Council Conference for FREE. *Thanks to support from the CDC, the National Council will cover travel, lodging expenses, and conference registration fees for selected program participants. In order to inform the technical assistance and resources offered throughout the program, applicants will be asked to complete a behavioral health assessment as part of the application process.
Applicant Eligibility
Any state, tribal, territorial, and local health official who has not previously participated is eligible to apply.
(According to the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the state health official is the "highest level at a state public health agency," and sometimes referred to as a state health secretary or commissioner of health. The National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) defines local health officials (LHOs) as "the top executives at a local health department (LHD)" who are responsible for the overall administration of the LHD. Local health department top executives have many different titles across the United States: Director, Health Officer, Nurse Manager, Health Commissioner, and others. The top agency executive is defined as the highest ranking employee with administrative and managerial authority at the level of the LHD.)
Application Submissions
Applications are due by 3:00pm EDT on Thursday, November 10th, 2016. For more information about this program, please review the Request for Applications & Application Questionnaire.
To access the online application, please go to https://nationalcouncil.nonprofitcms.org/a/solicitations/home/1051. Note: The application should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete.
WASHINGTON – This afternoon, the White House will hold the fourth in its "Making Health Care Better" series. Today's discussion focuses on the progress made in preventing suicide and the policy challenges that remain.
The program in South Court Auditorium will feature Administration, nonprofit and foundation leaders, and advocates working to address suicide prevention and improve access to mental health care.
The White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC) had previously released a progress report on actions taken by the Administration since 2009 to improve mental health research, access to care, and treatment; today, DPC published an addendum specifically about suicide prevention, which can be accessed here: http://go.wh.gov/D7hYj9.
The event will be streamed live at www.whitehouse.gov/live on Thursday, September 29 at 1 p.m. ET.
A new report highlights several examples of trauma-informed interventions that aim to improve behavioral health for Native youth, families, and communities. The report, "Addressing Trauma in American Indian and Alaska Native Youth," is now available online at
The report also includes recommendations from the literature concerning promoting traditional healing, community-based practices, and integrated behavioral health services to improve overall wellbeing for AI/AN youth.
Not able to attend the conference in person? The following sessions will be live streamed via Adobe Connect:
More Information/How to Connect
In February 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell tasked the Intradepartmental Council on Native American Affairs (ICNAA) with developing a comprehensive, integrated Departmental policy to address complex trauma in Native American communities. Improving the health and well-being of tribal communities is an important priority for HHS and HHS is committed to developing effective strategies to address not only the consequences of complex trauma but also to foster culturally responsive models for prevention.
HHS seeks input and recommendations to inform its work establishing and implementing this comprehensive policy. The Chair of the ICNAA invites tribal leadership to a listening session on Addressing Complex Trauma in Indian Country. The listening session will be held at the IHS National AI/AN Behavioral Health Conference in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, August 9, from 8:00 - 12:00 PM PST. This will be the first of a series of opportunities to provide recommendations.
To see a copy of the Dear Tribal Leader letter, please visit the conference website at: www.ihs.gov/dbh/2016conference/listeningsession
Registration is not required to attend the listening session but is required for conference attendance.
New Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative (MSPI) funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) were posted to the Federal Register today. MSPI federal program award opportunities were also posted to the MSPI webpage for IHS Federal Facilities...
Native teens and young adults can apply to become a We R Native Youth Ambassador. We R Native is a multimedia health resource for Native youth designed to empower them to take an active role in their own health and well-being. The program is asking American Indian and Alaska Native youth 15 - 24 years old to join their team. Learn More.
SAMHSA is pleased to announce the release of a new pocket guide for health professionals, Medication-Assisted Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder.
This pocket guide offers:
Click here to download or order your copy today.
Few estimates are available to describe the prevalence of violence experienced by American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) women and men. In addition, these estimates are often based on local rather than national samples. The few available national estimates are often based on very small samples. These small samples do not always accurately represent the AI/AN population in the United States. This study provides the first set of estimates from a national large-scale survey of victimization among self-identified AI/AN men and women on psychological aggression, coercive control and entrapment, physical violence, stalking, and sexual violence, using detailed behaviorally specific questions. These results are expected to raise awareness and understanding of violence experienced by AI/AN people. The webinar also will highlight the need for additional services that are needed for AI/AN victims of crime—a need that has been persistently noted but lacked the research to support efforts to increase resources or allocate them appropriately.
Click here to register for the webinar.
This updated publication now features nine state profiles; eight stories of typical violent deaths, including suicides; and over 25 innovative ways states turn data into action. With 32 states currently receiving NVDRS funding from the CDC, this report brings increased attention to the importance of investing resources in injury and violence prevention initiatives, and the need for continued support and expansion of this innovative system for preventing violent deaths.
An online guide about interventions in early childhood that can help prevent drug use and other unhealthy behaviors was launched today by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The guide offers research-based principles that affect a child's self-control and overall mental health, starting during pregnancy through the eighth year of life. It recognizes that while substance use generally begins during the teen years, it has known biological, psychological, social, and environmental roots that begin even before birth.
Click here for more information.
HHS issued guidance regarding the use of Federal funds to implement or expand syringe services programs for people who inject drugs. An overview of the guidance and a link to the complete document can be found here.
The release of the HHS guidance was part of a broader set of public and private sector actions to escalate the fight against the prescription opioid abuse and heroin epidemic, which is claiming the lives of tens of thousands of Americans each year. Here's a link to the full White House announcement.
Additional information and guidance for HHS grantees will be coming out over the next two weeks from the relevant HHS agencies.
The National AI/AN Behavioral Health Conference will be held on August 9 - 11, 2016, at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel in Portland, Oregon. The theme is "Creating Trauma Informed Systems in AI/AN Communities."
The National AI/AN Behavioral Health Conference is the nation's premier opportunity to assemble and hear from nationally recognized speakers, behavioral health care providers, Tribal leaders, and health care officials committed to addressing emergent behavioral health topics in Indian Country. The conference attracts presenters and participants from across the country who want to share their research and promising practices, while providing opportunities for professional development, collaboration and networking. Conference registration and hotel reservations will open May 1, 2016.
Deadline: April 15, 2016
The Indian Health Service National Council on Behavioral Health invites proposals for presenters addressing trauma informed behavioral health topics in the following five tracks:
Click here to submit your proposal
Deadline: May 1, 2016
The Indian Health Service welcomes and encourages interested individuals and programs to showcase their programs or art as an exhibitor or vendor. For additional information on booth space, please click here. Accepted exhibitors and vendors will be contacted by May 15, 2016.
For more information please visit our conference website here or contact the conference helpdesk at [email protected]
The National Rx Drug Abuse Summit is the largest national collaboration of professionals from local, state, and federal agencies; businesses; academia; clinicians; treatment providers; counselors; educators; state and national leaders; and advocates impacted by prescription drug misuse and heroin use.
Participate in a collaborative environment and up-to-date, data-driven discussions for professionals in the public health and public safety fields. Sessions are organized into 10 educational tracks tailed to provide stakeholders timely and relevant information for their particular field: advocacy, clinical, federal, heroin, law enforcement, pharmacy, prescription drug monitoring programs, prevention, third-party payer, and treatment.
Join SAMHSA's Acting Administrator, Kana Enomoto, a keynote speaker during the Opening General Session, on Tuesday, March 29, 9:00-11:00 am ET, as she discusses the importance of addressing the existing gaps in substance use treatment. Last year alone, approximately 20 million people in need of treatment did not receive it. Further, an estimated 10.6 million people reported an unmet need for mental health care.
Click here to register for the National Rx Drug Abuse Summit.
The 25th National/International Native American Indian Alcoholics Anonymous Convention will take place October 27-30, 2016. All AA members are welcome. The Convention will include a raffle, speaker meetings, old timers meeting, banquet, talking circles, social powwow, and 24 hour marathon meetings.
The conference will be held at:
Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino
20 Buffalo Thunder Trail
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87506
For more information, please click here.
This webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of Responding to Grief, Trauma, and Distress After a Suicide: U.S. National Guidelines, released last year by the Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force. The webinar is designed primarily for national, state, and organizational leaders who are advancing the cause of suicide prevention in keeping with the 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. It will cover how exposure to suicide affects a wide array of people, beyond immediate family members, often in profound ways, including deleterious mental health outcomes, prolonged and even debilitating grief, and isolation and stigmatization. It will also explain how the guidelines' goals and objectives are designed to guide system change at all levels using a public health approach and calls for reinventing postvention to ensure that everyone exposed to suicide receives effective care beyond the initial crisis surrounding a fatality.
If you are interested in participating in the webinar, please send an email to [email protected].
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This webinar will cover a new report from the Crisis Services Task Force, entitled Crisis Now: Transforming Services is Within Our Reach. The task force surveyed the status of mental health crisis care and found that the mental health crisis services system in our country is fractured and is contributing to criminalization of people with mental illness, the increasing suicide rate, and rising health care costs. The webinar will review these findings, present consensus recommendations to improve and expand crisis care, and discuss current policy opportunities. It is primarily intended for providers, advocates, hospital and health systems, legislators and legislative staff, and media.
Following presentation, participants will be able to describe: 1) At least 2 current deficiencies in crisis care and their consequences; 2) The 3 Core Elements of effective crisis care systems, 3) Where proposals to improve crisis care fit in current reform proposals.
If you are interested in participating in the webinar, please send an email to [email protected].
Art Martinez, PhD (Chumash)
Dr. Martinez will discuss historical trauma, its effect on culture/tradition and the impact across generations in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities. Additionally, he will discuss how to incorporate cultural traditions/ beliefs into the healthcare response to Sexual Assault/Abuse and Domestic Violence
The Tribal Forensic Healthcare Training Project is funded by the Indian Health Service
Continuing Education:
Jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and International Association of Forensic Nurses.
This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits(s)TM.
This activity has been approved for 1.0 Nursing Contact Hours.
As part of President Obama's Generation Indigenous ("Gen-I") initiative to remove barriers to success for Native Youth, Acting Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Lawrence S. Roberts today announced the launch of the 2016 Indian Affairs Student Leadership Summer Institute, a paid 10-week summer internship program with the agency that begins in early June. The Institute will provide American Indian and Alaska Native post-secondary students with a unique opportunity to learn about federal policymaking and develop management and leadership skills within high-profile offices throughout the Indian Affairs organization. Roberts made the announcement at the National Congress of American Indians' "Tribal Nations Legislative Summit 114th Congress Executive Council" meeting.
The Indian Affairs Student Leadership Summer Institute's mission is to engage and support the next generation of Native students interested in rising to leadership levels within federal government. The program will provide participants with:
For more information click here.
The First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) is now accepting proposals for its Native Youth and Culture Fund (NYCF) program that focuses on youth, and incorporating culture and tradition to address social issues in Native communities. First Nations will award approximately 20 grants to Native organizations and tribes seeking ways to preserve, strengthen and/or renew Native culture and tradition among Native youth.
First Nations is seeking projects that focus on one or more of these four priority areas:
First Nations prefers to fund projects no longer than one year in length, and with budgets between $5,000 and $20,000. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Mountain Time on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. All applicants must fully complete the First Nations online grant application.
For more information, click here.
The 2016 NNHAAD poster is out. The poster and those who want to order copies of materials can visit the website at www.nnhaad.org. The poster will be available as will a download of the new PSAs and other materials. We're excited about 2016 NNHAAD. We're asking that, if people post on social media that they use #NNHAAD so that we can track our reach. Our theme this year is "Hear Indigenous Voices: Uniting bold voices of American Indians, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiians"
At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently released an information bulletin focused on the Best Practices involving Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). The bulletin contains information about emerging Medicaid strategies for addressing the issue. Click here to view the bulletin.
SAMHSA's Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center is sponsoring this Generational Resilience Learning Community. The discussion will focus on the American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum, a course for Native high school and middle school students designed to reduce suicidal thinking and behavior. Participants will increase their knowledge about this culturally appropriate curriculum and how it can fit with youth suicide prevention and cultural intervention strategies in their schools and communities.
Click here to register.
This presentation will focus on syringe exchange program examples from Indian Country. It will demonstrate how each program was built to specifically address community needs, and what each program hopes for the future.
Duration: 1 hr total – 40 minute didactic with 20 minutes for Q/A
To connect click here. If you have questions, please email Jessica Leston, [email protected] or [email protected].
SAMHSA is pleased to announce the release of Strengthening Our Future: Key Elements To Developing a Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice Diversion Program for Youth With Behavioral Health Conditions. Developed by SAMHSA's partners as part of the 2014–2015 Policy Academy Action Network Initiative, this report builds off of SAMHSA's concept of trauma and framework for a trauma-informed approach to:
Click here to download the report.
SAMHSA will hold a webinar to provide an overview of the 42 CFR Part 2 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
HHS published proposed revisions to the Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records regulations, 42 CFR Part 2. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, titled Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records, was published in the Federal Register on February 9, 2016. This proposal was prompted by the need to update and modernize the regulations.
The goal of the proposed changes is to facilitate information exchange within new health care models while addressing the legitimate privacy concerns of patients seeking treatment for a substance use disorder. The regulatory changes will ensure that patients with substance use disorders have the choice to participate in and benefit from new integrated health care models without fear of the risk of adverse consequences. Due to its targeted population, the Part 2 rules provide more stringent federal protections than most other health privacy laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
HHS welcomes public comment on this proposed rule. To be assured consideration, comments must be received no later than 5 p.m. on April 11, 2016. HHS will consider all comments received by the date and time specified, and will respond to the comments in the preamble of the final rule. People may comment on the proposed changes by using one of the methods outlined in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
The Office of Minority Health (OMH) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services announces the availability of funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 for grant awards for the Communities Addressing Childhood Trauma (ACT) Program. ACT is intended to test the effectiveness of innovative approaches in promoting healthy behaviors among minority and/or disadvantaged youth at-risk for poor health/life outcomes due to childhood trauma. These innovative approaches (including curricula) should be designed for minority and/or disadvantaged youth ages 5 to 15 years who have been exposed to childhood trauma, as well as support services to their families. ACT seeks to address unhealthy behaviors in minority youth and provide them with opportunities to learn coping skills and gain experiences that contribute to more positive lifestyles and enhance their capacity to make healthier life choices. ACT funded grantees should serve minority and/or disadvantaged youth and their families who live in communities where they are exposed to chronic traumatic situations repeatedly over long periods of time such as violence (e.g., homicides, nonfatal assaults, school violence, and suicide), domestic violence, some forms of physical abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect, or recovery from disasters or other emotionally harmful experiences. The ACT initiative also promotes the goals of My Brother's Keeper, an initiative launched by President Obama to ensure that all young people can reach their full potential, including boys and young men of color.
Visit Grants.gov for more information and to submit an application, click here.
Application Submission Deadline: January 26, 2016
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is accepting applications for fiscal year 2016 Cooperative Agreements for Adolescent and Transitional Aged Youth Treatment Implementation [Youth Treatment - Implementation (Short Title – YT-I)] grants.
The purpose of this program is to provide funding to states/territories/tribes (hereafter known as states) to improve treatment for adolescents and/or transitional aged youth with substance use disorders and/or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders (hereafter known as "the population of focus") by assuring youth state-wide access to evidence-based assessments, treatment models, and recovery services supported by the strengthening of the existing infrastructure system. Based on need, applicants may choose to provide services to adolescents (ages 12-18) and their families/primary caregivers, transitional aged youth (ages 16-25) and their families/primary caregivers, or both these populations and their families/primary caregivers. Applicants that select transitional aged youth may chose a subset of this population of focus (e.g., ages 16-18, ages 18-21, ages 21-25).
For additional information about this grant opportunity, click here.
A downloadable recording of an informational webinar will be available here in the coming days.
Technical assistance on programmatic issues can be provided on an individual basis by contacting:
Immaculata Ukoh at (240) 276- 1108 or [email protected]
Melissa Rael at (240) 276-2903 or [email protected]
Technical assistance on grants management and budget issues can be provided on an individual basis by contacting:
Odessa Crocker at (240) 276-1078 or [email protected]
We are recruiting professionals in both the public and private sectors for the 2016 Behavioral Health Leadership Development Program, a part of Project LIFT (Leadership Initiatives for Tomorrow), who wish to enhance their leadership skills by:
There is no cost to you, but we do ask for your commitment of time and interest.
Look for the Call for Applications in late December-early January.CLICK HERE for more information.
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This series of one hour webinars brings together clinicians, researchers, and tribal members around the growing problem of illicit drug use in the perinatal period. Doctors, nurses, and tribal members will present evidence-based strategies for managing this complex issue in pregnant and breastfeeding women, newborns, and in the community setting. The series will be relevant to Indian Health Service clinicians, and to tribal communities.
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A myriad of keynote and break out sessions will inform and inspire your work.
Ohio has one of the most dynamic Safe Routes to School programs in the country. At this conference you'll see and hear about its many nationally-recognized innovations.
Plus, you will have plenty of time to network and share with colleagues from across the country in Ohio's vibrant capital city Columbus, named the 2015 Intelligent Community of the Year.
As tribal and urban American Indian and Alaska Native communities strive to address the issue of youth suicide, it is critical to seek a better understanding of youth perspectives and to focus on healing and strength-based approaches to wellness.
The SAMHSA Tribal Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Center invites you to join the webinar "Reconnecting Youth to the Circle: The Importance of Traditional Practices for Prevention," presented in conjunction with Native American Heritage month. The webinar is Part 1 of the Generational Resilience Learning Community series.
This interactive web-based learning community will offer opportunities for participants to hear youth stories about their connection to their language and cultural traditions as well as strategies for engaging youth and connecting them to the circle.
CLICK HERE to register.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) utilizes a pool of grant reviewers to reviews applications for their funding opportunity announcements. What is unique about their pool, is that it is based upon reviewers who voluntarily submit their own application to serve in that capacity, rather than a pool that is recruited just when a review panel is needed. So SAMHSA has a large and diverse pool of subject matter experts from which they can select a qualified panel of grant reviewers any time. However, there is always a need to grow that pool and ensure that all communities are represented. So please, visit their site, and complete an application and submit your paperwork to become a SAMHSA grant reviewer, and help to ensure that there is a strong Native presence within their pool of reviewers.
25th Annual National/International Native American Indian Alcoholics Anonymous Convention will be held at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino (4000 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV). The convention will feature 24-hour marathon meetings, AA speaker meetings, talking circles, an old timers meeting, a social powwow, and other events. For more information, click here.
IHS announced it awarded approximately $7.4 million to 56 IHS, Tribal, and Urban Indian organizations to provide prevention, intervention, and treatment services to American Indians and Alaska Natives who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. These IHS grants and federal program awards are a new phase in the Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative (DVPI), which previously funded 65 health programs in a five-year demonstration project to expand outreach and increase awareness of domestic and sexual violence, and expand services to victims and communities. In the first four years of the demonstration project, DVPI projects provided over 50,000 crisis interventions, victim advocacy, and counseling encounters and made more than 38,000 referrals for domestic violence services.
These new awards dramatically expand our efforts to provide community based, culturally appropriate services for domestic and sexual violence," said IHS Principal Deputy Director Robert G. McSwain. "American Indian and Alaska Native communities have called on IHS for more support to prevent domestic and sexual violence and the IHS Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative funding represents a commitment to these critical health needs."
Please visit the IHS Newsroom to view the entire press release.
The Indian Health Service, through its Office of Clinical and Preventive Services, Division of Behavioral Health, today made 117 Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative funding awards totaling $13,237,000 to prevent methamphetamine use and suicide in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Funding will go to Tribes, Tribal organizations, Urban Indian organizations, and IHS federal government programs. These awards will help increase access to health services and also build the capacity of American Indian and Alaska Native communities to provide prevention, intervention, and treatment services to American Indians and Alaska Natives who are at risk of suicide or methamphetamine use.
View the press release for more information, a list of awardees by IHS Area, and a link to the updated IHS MSPI website.
In a new 3-part webinar series designed for community-based organizations, the Office of Minority Health Resource Center will share the basics of successful federal grant applications. Three key topics will be covered on the following dates:
Foundations of Grant Writing
Tuesday, October 6 at 3:30 pm ET
Why All the Excitement about Logic Models?
Tuesday, October 20 at 3:30 pm ET
Getting to Know the Federal Government and Funding Opportunities
Thursday, November 5 at 3:30 pm ET
September is National Suicide Awareness Month. The first ever National American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Suicide Prevention Hope for Life Day will occur on September 10, in conjunction with the World Suicide Prevention Day. The goals for the day include changing the conversation about suicide and to promote hope, life, cultural resiliency, and community transformation.
The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention's American Indian/Alaska Native Task Force put together a toolkit to assist health professionals and grassroots organizers with community engagement, speaking with Tribal leaders, promotional materials, and cultural activity suggestions.
Practical experiences associated with the implementation of alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) into routine health care are often understudied and under disseminated in the research literature. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed an implementation guide outlining useful steps to integrate alcohol SBI into clinical practice settings. Three Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Regional Training Centers (FASD RTCs) across the U.S. were funded by CDC to pilot implementation of alcohol SBI into multi-site primary healthcare systems. Pilot sites located in Alaska, Nevada, and Tennessee included three health systems across ten clinical settings.
The University of Nevada, Reno's Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies is pleased to offer this free webinar whose purpose is to highlight key aspects of the alcohol SBI implementation processes that were unique to each party involved in the pilot testing and resulted in important lessons that are applicable for others implementing alcohol SBI. Attendees will learn about available resources and receive practical recommendations that will increase the likelihood of their own success integrating routine alcohol SBI into clinical settings.
Elizabeth Dang, MPH - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sandra Gonzalez, MSSW, LCSW - Baylor College of Medicine
Joyce Hartje, PhD - University of Nevada, Reno
Becky Porter, MS, LPC - University of Alaska Anchorage
Contact Hours: This webinar has been approved for a total of 1.0 contact hour through the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC). Certificates indicating the number of contact hours earned are issued to all participants at the end of the training via e-mail; certificates are sent out 7-10 days after the training has concluded.
For more information on alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention or FASD, please click here. Please contact Carolyn Edney at [email protected] with any questions.
Presented by Shawn Sidhu, MD
Next Webinar
September 29, 2015, 2:00 pm ET
At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
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Learn about potential financing mechanisms for post-discharge care services for individuals who are at risk of suicide at the upcoming webinar, Financing Care Transitions for Individuals at Risk for Suicide. The speakers will discuss current financing models, as well as expected changes that will alter the national health services payment landscape. The discussion will focus on three case studies—an accountable care organization, a behavioral health plan, and a county-led crisis program—as examples of innovative financial models that support services for individuals in crisis.
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On behalf of SAMHSA and the SAMHSA American Indian and Alaska Native Team, you are invited you to join a panel discussion entitled "The Evidence Supporting Traditional Practices" on Tuesday, August 25, 2015. Participants will have the opportunity to meet, listen, and engage with an exciting group of expert panelists that will discuss topics on Evidence-Based Practices, Practice-Based Evidence and Traditional Practices that are being utilized in rural and urban Native communities.
Click here to register.
In a trauma-informed approach, a behavioral health organization understands and develops a framework to best serve clients with histories of trauma. The system, and all employees in the system, understands the role that trauma can play in each person's care and recovery. With trauma-informed care, the organization develops safeguards to ensure that the setting in which services are delivered, and the particular services offered are competent, safe, evidence-based, patient-centered, and do not re-traumatize individuals with histories of trauma. The input of those with lived trauma experience is essential in the development, delivery, and evaluation of services. The Zero Suicide approach frames care for those at risk for suicide in much the same way that trauma-informed care provides a framework for serving those with histories of trauma.
Click here to register.
This fourth technical assistance webinar will provide an opportunity for Tribes, Tribal organizations and Urban Indian health organizations (UIHPs) to ask questions about the application process for the MSPI & DVPI FY2015 new funding cycle. The primary focus of the webinar will be to address frequently asked questions for the application process and provide a question & answer session for new inquiries. A brief update on the application submission process and requirements will be provided if there are minimal questions from the audience. The application submission deadline for Tribes, Tribal organizations, and UIHPs is September 8, 2015 via Grants.gov.
Pre-registration is not required. Click here to participate in the webinar.
The SAMHSA Tribal Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Center invites you to join a webinar for the Two-Spirit Tuesday's! Learning Community. Part 3 is titled We Are All One Family; Let's Not Make This "Just a Dream": Indigenous Two-Spirit Youth Sharing of Personal Stories.
This learning community will be composed as a panel discussion of Two-Spirit Native youth leaders who will share their personal struggles, challenges, successes, and triumphs. These inspiring Two-Spirit leaders will discuss their brilliant work to support the Two-Spirit community, and offer insight and recommendations on how tribal communities, families, and allies can support Two-Spirit health and wellness.
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This webinar will review the epidemiology and genetics of addiction and substance use disorders in American Indians and Alaska Natives. Co-morbidities of physical injuries and behavioral health issues will be reviewed. The patient assessment will be reviewed in detail and intervention strategies including buprenorphine will be covered.
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This webinar will cover examples of practice-based, evidence-based, and culturally-informed programming which have proven successful for addressing methamphetamine and substance abuse prevention and treatment in urban Indian community settings.
Target audience: Urban Indian Health program staff and providers, behavioral health care providers, and allied health professionals
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Recent developments in the field of media and suicide research reflect a change in focus from traditional to online media and an increasing attention to stories of hope and recovery and their potential to help prevent suicide. In this webinar the presenters will focus on their recent research investigating how stories of recovery delivered via newspaper reports and fictional films impact various audiences. Furthermore, they will present findings on the role of the Internet in conveying information about suicide and suicide prevention in the United States and in Europe.
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SAMHSA and the JED Foundation invite you to join the upcoming, two-part web conference, "Responding to Suicide Clusters on College Campuses."
Participants will learn from experts in suicide prevention and college-focused mental health about our current understanding of suicide clusters on college campuses and in other settings.
Presenters will discuss the epidemiology and demographics of suicide clusters; what we know about settings in which clusters are more likely to occur; and how to reduce the risk of "contagion" through effective communication, intervention, and postvention both on campus and off campus.
A panel of clinicians who have experienced suicide clusters on their campuses (or have worked with campuses that have had clusters) will discuss their experiences and lessons learned about managing a campus response to a cluster; planning for postvention after a cluster; and handling communication and media reporting.
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The National American Indian & Alaska Native ATTC would like to offer support to future American Indian and Alaska Native leaders in the behavioral health and addiction service fields by inviting participation in a comprehensive leadership preparation program which provides a balance of traditional training seminars, distance education, and field education. We are currently seeking participants and mentors for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Why participate in the American Indian & Alaska Native Leadership Academy?This program will provide opportunities for participants to:
This program provides a meaningful experience for mentors, including opportunities to:
For more information, click here.
The Indian Health Service Headquarters' Division of Behavioral Health is hosting this conference in partnership with the Phoenix Area's Office of Health Programs. This conference is for behavioral health providers, nurses, primary care providers, executives, and others from Indian Health Service, Tribal, and Urban facilities to build the model for integrating behavioral health into primary care.
Location and Registration details coming soon.
The IHS Tele-Behavioral Health Center of Excellence will broadcast conference sessions.
For more information please contact Andrea Czajkowski, [email protected].
On May 21, 2015, a virtual webinar on Project Lazarus was presented. Project Lazarus is a non-profit organization established in 2008 to address the extremely high drug overdose death rate in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Project Lazarus believes that communities are ultimately responsible for their own health and that every drug overdose is preventable.
The Project Lazarus Model can be conceptualized as a wheel, with three core components (The Hub) that must always be present, and seven components (The Spokes), which can be initiated based on the specific needs of a community.The learning objectives included:
Click here to download the slides.
Click here to view the webinar.
NPR put out an internet and radio story titled Many Native American Communities Struggle With Effects Of Heroin Use recently that spoke to the unique challenges that many American Indian people face when both trying to quit using substances and then trying to cope and move through with recovery. The story can be read and streamed HERE
Popular notions of domestic violence (DV) as well as prevailing practice ideas often suggest that domestic violence is a monolithic phenomenon with angry, violent men using coercive control to dominate their female partners. While this is true of a great deal of the abuse and violence seen by DV practitioners, it does not adequately describe the full range of DV dynamics, behaviors and motives. This presentation will examine 30 years of research into classifying and understanding types of domestic violence including the work of Michael Johnson, Amy Holtzworth-Monroe, Edward Gondolf, John Gottman and others. Application to lethality assessment, batterer intervention and victim safety are considered along with the historical/political contexts in which this work has been received.
Pre-registration is not required for non-VA employees. Click here to participate on June 10, 2015.
Please join IHS, SAMSHA and CMS on an All Tribes' Call - Webinar to learn more information about how Medicaid reimbursement might be available for mental health services provided to persons in residential treatment centers. Under the Medicaid laws, Medicaid payment is not allowed for services provided in Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) that have more than 16 beds. However, there are exceptions to this rule. The purpose of the call will be to learn about the IMD exclusion, the exceptions, and what this means for Indian Country.
When: June 9, 2015, 4:00 – 5:00 PM Eastern Time
Registration: http://go.cms.gov/imdwebinar
Call-in Information: 1-888-490-2759, Participant passcode: 617132
The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, Fort Peck Community College (FPCC), Indian Health Service (IHS), Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA), and representatives from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (NIH CC) are partnering on the symposium aimed at understanding and addressing violence within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. This important event will take place May 27-29, 2015 in Poplar, MT and feature presentations and panel discussions with experts in the areas of trauma prevention and intervention. Goals of the symposium are to:
Registration for the Fort Peck Health and Resilience Symposium: Creating a Trauma-Informed Tribal Community is now live! You can register for this free event at: https://fortpeckhealthsymposium.eventbrite.com.
In addition to community members, professionals in the fields of medicine, nursing, social work, education, the judiciary system, and law enforcement are encouraged to attend. If you have any questions about the event, please email the Planning Committee at [email protected], or contact Paula Fire Moon at (406) 768-6330.
Indigenous peoples suffer great risk of suicide. For example, in some regions the suicide rate among young indigenous women and men is five to six times the rate of non-indigenous youths. Some communities report even higher rates. The alarming over-representation of suicide among indigenous youth was one of the main topics during the two-week long 14th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which concluded on May 1. Click here to read more.
We hope you will join us in Albuquerque, New Mexico on August 19th through the 21st for the 2015 Summit on Traumatic Brain Injury and Native Americans. The Summit is an opportunity to share best practices, discuss common concerns and make new connections as we work to improve the quality of life of Native Americans with traumatic brain injuries. You can learn more about the Summit on the web page:
And a quick reminder that the deadline for Call for Papers for the Summit on Traumatic Brain Injury and Native Americans is approaching. The deadline is May 22, 2015. Please contact Lyn Wilson-King for any questions.The Summit is seeking proposals on evidence-based policies, programs or services in five areas:
Information on how to submit a proposal or register for the Summit may be found on the Summit web page. If you have any questions, please contact Lyn Wilson-King at LWi[email protected].
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Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade
Jagdish Bhagwati, an internationally renowned economist known for his insightful analyses and elegant writing, here shines a critical light on Preferential Trade Agreements, revealing how the rapid spread of PTAs endangers the world trading system. Preferential Trade Agreements, many taking the form of Free Trade Agreements, now number over 300 and are rapidly increasing. Bhagwati reveals how these agreements have recreated the unhappy situation of the protectionist 1930s, when world trade was undermined by discriminatory practices (today, ironically, as a result of a misdirected pursuit of free trade). The world trading system is definitely at risk again, the author argues, and the danger is palpable. Indeed, PTAs have created a chaotic system of preferences that has destroyed the principle of non-discrimination in trade. The trading system today is characterized by a blizzard of discriminatory barriers, each designed to favor some specific trading partner, so that we have what Bhagwati has called the "spaghetti bowl" problem. And while the big firms in the big countries can cope with the chaos, though at a cost, the author shows that small countries and small exporters are seriously handicapped. He also examines how FTAs are typically tied to extraneous issues such as openness to capital flows and inappropriate labor standards, so that the weaker nations, negotiating one-on-one with stronger nations, are forced to accept harmful demands unrelated to trade. Finally, the book warns that getting to multilateral free trade from the morass of PTAs will be almost an impossible task--like building a mansion from different-sized bricks. Preferential trade agreements, Bhagwati concludes, are not building blocks but stumbling blocks on the road of free trade. In Termites in the Trading System, he illuminates this growing threat to the world trading system. Acclaim for In Defense of Globalization: "If Mr. Bhagwati doesn't get a much deserved Nobel Prize for economics, he should get one for literature. His writing sparkles with anecdotes and delightful verbal pictures." --New York Sun "One of the world's leading international trade theorists.... Accessible and clearly argued. There is, one might say, a wealth of material on every page." --The Wall Street Journal "An outstandingly effective book.... Until further notice In Defense of Globalization becomes the standard general-interest reference, the intelligent layman's handbook, on global economic integration." --The Economist Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/9780195331653/toc.html
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A Wyoming County man possessing an axe and a knife and allegedly threatening people and injuring himself has been arrested.
20-year-old Robert Gohlman of Gainsville is facing menacing, endangering the welfare of a child and harassment charges. Gohlman fled into nearby woods, but was discovered after an extended a foot search. He was transported to Warsaw Community Hospital and was treated for several cuts and was released.
Bail is set at 15-thousand dollars. He will appear in Gainesville Court at a later date.


text: Verve, a 25 storey tower developed by fram+slokker, a family owned developer with solid reputation building over 30 years in the toronto area creating the new calgary. Dramatic river views, surrounded by 3 parks, 5 minute walk to c-train station, 10 minute walk to saddledome & stampede grounds, 15 minutes to inglewood & eau claire. Features cecconi simone custom kitchen with gas cooktop and european appliances & functional sitting/eat-in island, wide plank flooring, gas fireplace, contemporary faucets, front-loading washer/dryer, modern bathrooms with oversize porcelain floor tiles, luxurious soaker tub & spacious shower with large shower head, 10'ceiling heights, 2 large balconies with natural gas bbq outlet, 2 titled parking stalls, assigned storage. 1 beds from the mid $200's, 2 beds from low $400's


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Opera for You
Opera to go
for adults aged 18 and over
Opera to Go offers an alternative to going to the cinema or pub after work: we present a varied mixture of operatic music, peppered with pearls from musicals and Chanson. You don't think opera is for you? Presenter Anna Ryberg, pianist Naomi Schmidt and singers from Oper Frankfurt will prove you wrong – get to know our young singers and enjoy a free aperitif looking out evening sky in Frankfurt.


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Release Date: 1983 |
Album Rating: 3.5could never really love this record but after reading that I'll try it again, pos
Digging: Motorpsycho - The Tower
Album Rating: 3.5oh bad news on poor robert tho, alzheimers
Whaaaaaa? Damn that's awful, one of the worst things that can happen to someone...
On a lighter note, great review, every one is better than the last - your Invicta review is gonna be god-tier
good review dawg, considering how long its taking me to check summer stars ill probably never get around to this
This album actually has vocals? In that case I definitely need to check the record out, especially given that I thought all Enid records were completely instrumental. Very good review by the way, looking forward to your coverage of the rest of the band's discography. Also, your photo taken from Swans' debut album (I think?) is pretty cool.
Yes, I believe Godfrey will overcome the unfortunate case of Alzheimer's, may his strength become mighty and quash the illness.
Digging: Aosoth - V: The Inside Scriptures
@Fripper or if you review them before that, you could review Reset when it comes out and get a feature eh
Is it possible to overcome Alzheimer's? :
pls tell me this doesnt drag like 90% of classic prog
Album Rating: 3.5too true, topographic drags terrible and i like prog, it would send him into a catatonic state
Album Rating: 3.5i have the vinyl of it and i fear there are still pristine grooves on it even after all these years
Album Rating: 4.5sweee review
Album Rating: 4.5swee
Album Rating: 4.5If you're that greedy...
Album Rating: 4.5''I should probably upload the discog on soundcloud''
What discog are you talking about?
Album Rating: 4.5Sounds great.
Album Rating: 4.5Yes it's a band from here in Québec. They have plenty of great tracks like this. The drummer is what we have the best.
Album Rating: 4.5They can really be influenced by the blues too. Sometimes they sound symphonic prog too. They're really cool.
Album Rating: 4.5It becomes too repetitive on the run. On the other hand, music is easy to love.
Album Rating: 4.5I'm not sure what you intend to do. Is there a way to put albums in my computer?
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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