May 4, 2009
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Evaluation
This evaluation aims to document impacts associated with school-connected interventions with an emphasis on overcoming cultural and language barriers of children in immigrant and refugee families.
March 1, 2006
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Program Result
The Blanton-Peale Institute refined, strengthened and expanded its training program in mental health counseling for Hispanic pastors serving inner city congregations that it had developed with prior funding from RWJF.
November 1, 2006
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Program Result
The Institute of Medicine issued a report - Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions - presenting an agenda for strengthening mental health and substance abuse treatment and care.
May 1, 2005
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Program Result
The Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation evaluated the clinical and economic impact of an algorithm-guided treatment package on seriously mentally ill patients treated in the Texas public mental health system.
October 1, 2004
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Program Result
Women Helping Women, a non-profit agency providing low-cost support and therapy services to women in central New Jersey, expanded its program to offer additional services and to reach a larger, more ethnically diverse population.
December 1, 2004
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Program Result
Porter Novelli planned and conducted market research activities on consumer demand for health and behavior interventions in primary care as background for the development of Prescription for Health: Promoting Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care Research Networks.
April 1, 2003
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Program Result
The Latino Research Program Project of the University of Puerto Rico sponsored a conference aimed at increasing research that explores the reasons for disparities in Latino access to mental health care and potential solutions.
January 29, 2002
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Program Result
This project delivered services to indigent, elderly inner-city residents with serious mental illness, living in public housing projects in New Brunswick, N.J.
February 1, 2002
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Program Result
The Carter Center in Atlanta held its Fourteenth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, "Promoting Positive and Healthy Behaviors in Children," on November 18–19, 1998, in Atlanta, Ga.
August 1, 2002
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Program Result
The National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine examined information about the links between behavior and health, the influence of social environment on behaviors, and interventions to improve health by modifying behavior or personal relationships.