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SAMHSA developed this evidence-based toolkit to provide state administrators, communities, clinicians, policymakers, and others with the information and tools to implement IPS, an evidence-based Supported Employment, for persons with mental illness to find and keep employment. The IPS model of Supported Employment is grounded in research showing the transformative power of employment as a path to recovery. Through IPS, people with mental health conditions are empowered to find and sustain competitive, meaningful work, fostering a greater sense of purpose and community.
This document provides information to state leaders on selection, adaptation, implementation, and funding of evidence-based supported employment for transition age youth. It includes up-to-date information for states to set up effective programs to help youth become successful and reach employment and educational goals.
SAMHSA’s new National Guidance on Essential Specialty Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Care articulates a core or essential set of services for adults with SUD that should be available at any specialty SUD treatment facility in the United States.
This tip sheet shares advice on how to best support a person through grief, while still respecting their own unique process. The resource includes information about how to communicate with someone who is grieving, the warning signs an individual might need further help, and additional resources.
SAMHSA’s updated National Behavioral Health Crisis Care Guidance is comprised of three documents: 2025 National Guidelines for a Behavioral Health Coordinated System of Crisis Care; Model Definitions for Behavioral Health Emergency, Crisis, and Crisis-Related Services and a draft Mobile Crisis Team Services: An Implementation Toolkit.
Black youth suicide rates have been on the rise over the past two decades. SAMHSA’s Issue Brief, Black Youth Suicide Prevention, highlights the pressing concern of Black youth suicide and the role state leaders can play to address Black youth suicide in their communities.
This series of 10 papers aims to build upon the work being done to implement the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and the behavioral health services continuum that complements it. This series of papers also advances the work of prevention, safety, resiliency, and recovery, which complements the work in crisis services.
SAMHSA has issued two new papers on integration of behavioral health care in specialty care settings such as oncology and gastroenterology clinics. One paper focuses on care for adults and the other pediatric populations. The two papers discuss examples of integrated care models, key components of integrated care models and examples. The goal of these papers is to help ensure patients in these specialty care settings have access to behavioral health care.
This report provides guidance to decision-makers about how to identify and select the intervention(s) that will best serve their state or community, as required by the STOP Act.1 The STOP Act also requires the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD) to include in the report measures of states’ use of best practices in preventing and reducing underage drinking.
The 2024 Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of Underage Drinking includes national data on underage drinking patterns, the federally coordinated approach on underage drinking prevention and treatment, and information on the National Media Campaign: "Talk. They Hear You."®
