The Evidence-Based Professionals' Monthly - November 2016

Welcome to your November 2016 issue of the EBP Monthly, the periodical for evidence based professionals.  Here is your collection of relevant articles, webcasts, grant resources, performance tools and our upcoming events.

Articles, Casts, Updates

Evidence-Based Human & Justice Services:

• How Are States Using Welfare Funding? Often, Not to Help People Work
• Economists Hart of Harvard and Holmstrom of MIT win Nobel for groundbreaking work on contracts (view about paragraph 20 to see how this applies)\
• Smart Steps to take on the road to justice reform

Youth & Family:

• How To Build The ‘Village’ You Need As A Caregiver
• State to expand mental health services for children through Project TEACH
• Internet addiction could signal other problems
• New report calls for closing all youth prisons
• Why trauma-informed courts are important

Mental Health:

• The State of Mental Health in America: Mental Health Facts, Stats, and Data
• Initiative aims to treat mental health in primary care
• State to expand mental health services for children through Project TEACH
• Medicare Awards Value-Based Mental Health And Telepsychiatry Projects
• 'NYC Well' Is NYC's New 24/7 Mental Health Hotline
• Thrive NYC: A Roadmap for Mental Health for All
• Training psychiatrists in Idaho: A telemedicine model

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Substance Abuse:

• Colorado marijuana business over $2 billion last year
• Reductions in drug sentences could save over $2 billion
• Peer recovery coaches help fight addiction
• Study finds teens think e-cigarettes less harmful than tobacco
• Study finds opioids blunt parenting instincts 
• Polls finds 60% of adults think marijuana should be legal
• Research examines relationship between bullying and drug use

Workforce & Career Services:

• How Are States Using Welfare Funding? Often, Not to Help People Work
• From conviction to employment

International:

• Social Enterprises in Ghana impact 100,000 lives – Report

Upcoming Events

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Technology:

• Digital health a 'first responder' for behavioral health conditions

Webcasts, Videos, Podcasts:

• Podcast: Liz Ryan On Closing Youth Prisons
• Adolescent Substance Use Screening Tools For Use In Primary Care
• ThriveNYC: NYC's Mental Health Roadmap
• 10 Famous People With Mental Health Issues
• Community supervision and substance abuse disorders
• Circles of Support and Accountability–An Innovative Approach to the Management of Sex Offenders

Grants & Funding:

• Current funding from SAMHSA: Fiscal Year 2017 Grant Announcements and Awards
• Multi-agency Funding Announcement To Assist With Opioid Crisis in Rural U.S. Regions

Survey: Your Vision for EBP

The “infant” evidence-based movement is poised to take its next steps, and we at Joyfields Institute and the EBP Society would like to determine how to best support you and the field going forward - with your help!

With the utmost humility we ask that you take a few minutes to add your input through this very brief survey.  Thank you for your kind attention in advance, and we encourage us all to make the next couple months our best yet.

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