DHSS State of Alaska

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New Releases!

A Decade of Progress: Tobacco Prevention & Control in Alaska

The Alaska Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking is highlighting strategies that work in our state that reduce underage drinking.  If you’d like to highlight your program or strategy, Use This!

Just Released by the Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault -- 2012 Alaska Dashboard; Key Issues Impacting Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Alaska.  Through the efforts of the Governor’s Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Initiative, this is the first-ever DVSA Data Dashboard.

For a copy, go to
http://dps.alaska.gov/Cdvsa

CDC Releases Research on Binge Drinking Prevalence, Frequency and Intensity Among Young Adults.

• Read More Here

Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of Underage Drinking

Underage Drinking Prevention Video

Use this Link to see some of the many ways Alaskans are working to prevent underage drinking in this video, funded by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Upcoming Events

38th Annual School on Addictions & Behavioral Health
Held in Anchorage, AK
May 7-9, 2012

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25th Annual NPN Prevention Research Conference
Sept. 17-20, 2012 in Pittsburgh, PA
For information go to: http://swpc.ou.edu/npn/index.htm

Use this link to see all past events

Items of Interest

• DHSS now on Twitter and Facebook! (8/10/09)
  Click on links at the bottom of this page to go to them.

• Behavioral Health receives federal $10.7 million Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant to develop rural substance abuse prevention capacity. (7/14/09)

• New report from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine.  Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities.  March 2009.  For information or to order a copy go to: www.iom.edu/CMS/12552/45572/64120.aspx.

State receives$1.5 million federal SAMHSA grant to reduce and prevent youth suicide in Alaska.

• Prevention Works, Prevention Handbook
  National publication published by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the National Prevention Network

• Suicide Prevention Resource Center - fact sheets which describe statistics on deaths by suicide, estimated hospitalized attempts, and data on medical costs, work loss costs, gender, race/ethnicity, age and method. Go to here to view the updated documents for national data as well as many states including Alaska.

   

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