Arctic Mental Health
Working Group
A USARC-Coordinated
Working Group
ARCHIVE. The Arctic Mental Health Working Group (AMHWG) pages on this website contain archived content from 2015–2018. In 2018, concurrent with the $4.25M grant received by the University of Alaska Fairbanks for the Alaska Native Collaborative Hub for Research Resilience (ANCHRR), the group disbanded to pursue focused projects in smaller groups. Please contact crosa@arctic.gov for additional information.
Arctic Mental Health Working Group
A USARC-Coordinated Working Group
ARCHIVE. The Arctic Mental Health Working Group (AMHWG) pages on this website contain archived content from 2015–2018. In 2018, concurrent with the $4.25M grant received by the University of Alaska Fairbanks for the Alaska Native Collaborative Hub for Research Resilience (ANCHRR), the group disbanded to pursue focused projects in smaller groups. Please contact crosa@arctic.gov for additional information.
News and Highlights
2018
Mental and Behavioral Health Workforce Capacity Needs Workshop
January 18, 2018
[Opinion] Here’s what drove the former head of API to quit. Eighteen months later, the problems aren’t fixed
January 14, 2018
Program increased awareness of effects of childhood trauma
January 12, 2018
Feds freeze mental health practices clearinghouse
January 11, 2018
2017
Generation at risk: America’s youngest facing a mental health crisis
December 10, 2017
Saving lives via text message
November 26, 2017
Brain patterns may predict people at risk of suicide
October 30, 2017
Mental health clinicians work to keep students safe in Kodiak schools
October 24, 2017
Alaska’s Mental Health Care Workforce Shortage Brochure
October 2, 2017
Alaska emergency rooms start sharing information, with focus on those who use them the most
September 13, 2017
Village addiction recovery program focuses on subsistence skills
July 30, 2017
How childhood trauma affects health
July 18, 2017
In Northwest Arctic, a powerful tool in combating suicide: Training youth to help each other
July 9, 2017
For many, Medicaid provides the only route to mental health care
July 9, 2017
Senate health bill could both boost and undercut mental health funding
July 8, 2017
Mat-Su hospital wants to add ‘desperately needed’ mental health beds
June 30, 2017
UAF gets $4.25 million to address one of Alaska’s worst problems: Suicide
June 20, 2017
Conducting Research with Participants at Elevated Risk for Suicide: Considerations for Researchers
June 2017
Suicide prevention among Arctic Indigenous communities
June 2017
Mental Health and Our Changing Climate Report
March 2017
Brain imaging identifies different types of depression
February 21, 2017
Is mental health declining in the U.S.?
January 1, 2017
2016
When a school’s online eavesdropping can prevent a suicide
December 23, 2016
Neighbors treating neighbors for depression and alcoholism
December 15, 2016
School nurses can be mental health ‘detectives’ but they need help
September 3, 2016
Depression treatment often doesn’t go to those most in need
August 29, 2016
Canada’s Inuit launch national suicide prevention strategy
August 3, 2016
Bartlett continues effort to build a youth psychiatric treatment center in Juneau
July 14, 2016
What if mental health first aid were as widespread as CPR?
June 7, 2016
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