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What are ACEs?
RWJF and a growing network of leaders is pioneering how we diminish the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
Learn about what ACEs are, their prevalence and their impact.
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2013 Children's Symposium
RWJF grantee, Head Start Trauma Smart, is hosting the 2013 Children's Symposium. ad Start Trauma Smart (HSTS) is an early childhood development initiative that addresses the trauma associated with violence, poverty, and illness.
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Mental Health Impact Assessment
RWJF, in collaboration with the Pew Charitable Trusts, is investing in expanding the use of Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) to inform policy decisions across sectors that can influence health. This pilot is aimed at adapting the conventional HIA methodology to assess mental health effects.
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Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care
Research conducted by the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools reports on strategies to strengthen and sustain children’s mental health services and prevent the onset of problem behaviors.
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Diffusion of a Model for Addressing Behavioral Health Issues in Primary Care Practices
December 5, 2012 | Program Result Report
Prescription for Health developed innovative models to integrate counseling for tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and excessive alcohol consumption into primary care. These models spread and became integrated into the national health care system after RWJF's funding ended.
Using Telehealth for Mental Health
February 15, 2012 | Program Result Report
The University of Texas Medical Branch launched and ran Telemedicine for School-Based Mental Health, a project to provide mental health treatment by university-based clinicians to disadvantaged students in their school clinics in Galveston, Texas.
Post-Katrina, Mental Health Services Needed
February 15, 2012 | Program Result Report
Coastal Family Health Center staff was trained by Utah's Intermountain Healthcare on the "mental health integration model," which incorporates mental health care into primary care practice, and began to pilot the approach in its Gulf Coast clinics.
Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth
November 21, 2011 | Program Result Report
Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth brought school-connected mental health services to immigrants and refugees in 15 communities in eight states by developing model mental health programs.
After Katrina - Combating Mental Illness
April 15, 2011 | Program Result Report
From 2007 to 2010, the Rapid Evaluation and Action for Community Health in New Orleans, Louisiana (REACH NOLA) tackled the city's mental health crisis through its Health and Resilience Project.
Prescription for Health: Promoting Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care Research Networks
January 27, 2011 | Program Result Report
Prescription for Health tested the use of tools and evidence-based models in primary care to counsel patients to change four leading behaviors associated with premature death: smoking, risky drinking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
New Services for Released Prisoners with Mental Illness in Mercer County, N.J.
June 28, 2010 | Program Result Report
Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare and its partners provided re-entry assistance to 176 incarcerated individuals diagnosed with mental illness through discharge planning, case management and needed follow-up services for 12 months or more.
New Curriculum for School Nurses Helps Them Deal With Students' Trauma Symptoms After Hurricane Katrina
April 26, 2010 | Program Result Report
Some 304 school health nurses and 199 other school health personnel, social workers and community partners received training using the "Trauma to Triumph" curriculum developed by Louisiana State University School of Nursing.
The New Orleans Metropolitan Area Family Resiliency Project Helps with Mental Health Problems After Katrina
September 16, 2010 | Program Result Report
LSUHSC provided an array of behavioral and mental health services for children, first responders and their families in three New Orleans parishes hard hit by Hurricane Katrina.
Cross-Systems Financing Project Learning Community Creates Care Integration in Five Sites
November 10, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Technical Assistance Collaborative established and guided a "learning community" in which participants developed strategies to integrate funding for and improve access to mental health and substance abuse services in their states and counties.