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Back to school: Nurse seeks training to help bridge mental health care gap in rural NC

NC Health News

Statewide provider shortage To help address the nations shortage of mental health providers, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has cited a need for more than half a million additional psychiatric mental health nurses to reach merely adequate access to mental health and substance use disorder care.

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Ten Low-Cost Interventions to Provide Mental Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

BMJ Global Health

Peer Counseling and School-Based Programs Leveraging the power of shared experience, peer counselors can provide empathetic listening, guidance, and encouragement, making mental health care more relatable and less stigmatized. These tools can deliver psychoeducation, mood tracking, and reminders for medication or appointments.

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November Policy Updates: Annual Policy Assessment, Vaccine Toolkit, Medicaid Advocacy on the Hill, and more!

National Council on Urban Indian Health

On November 21, the CMS TTAG hosted a briefing for the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA), the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee majority and minority staff on TTAG legislative priorities—primarily Medicaid or Medicare issues.

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What Jimmy Carter taught us about public health: Peace, faith, science can work together

HEALTHBEAT

Its all about community engagement working with the people at the end of the road and health education, treating the sources of water . This is done through hundreds and thousands of volunteers from the villages who provide health education to hundreds of villages, Ijaz explained. That is what President Carter taught.