Community Health Centers (CHCs) and first responders provide a vital and necessary role in addressing the critical behavioral health needs of communities.

Learn about the treatment and support needed by individuals who have attempted suicide and their family members, as well as people bereaved by suicide, as they find their unique paths to recovery.

Past trauma can lead to mental and emotional states that hurt a person’s recovery. Explore the three “Es” of trauma: Event(s), Experience of Event(s), and Effect and the path to resiliency.

The episode’s panel will review Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment (SBIRT) elements. They will look at it how it has and can continue to be incorporated into primary health care settings to screen for mental and/or substance use disorders and help reduce overprescribing of medications. In addition, a preview of the collaboration between SAMHSA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will give health care professionals who prescribe opioids a framework for safer prescribing.