May is Mental Health Month |
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Enter & you could win a $100 cash prize!
To Enter:
- Visit the contest website
- Upload your own visual that represents your selfcare strategy and/or mental health growth goal(s)*
- Enter your email address and photo description
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May 5th was National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day. #AwarenessDay was started by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in 2005, to shine a national spotlight on the importance of caring for every child’s mental health.
It's never too early to talk to children about their mental health and reinforce the message that positive mental health is key to overall healthy development. To help start that conversation we created this coloring page for kids.
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We've gone GREEN for May is Mental Health Month.
Left: The Albert Sherman Center, UMass Chan Campus is lit green through May 31st. Right: Kenneth F. Burns Memorial Bridge on Route 9 was green on May 2nd. Photo by @UnityMike
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What's Happening in Our Centers |
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Making MS PowerPoint Accessible for Screen Readers |
Many people with disabilities use assistive technology to access digital content or need content in alternative formats for it to be fully accessible to them. One of the most common assistive technologies is a screen reader which reads text on the screen out loud for those with low or no vision.
In this quick video tutorial, Ally, from CeKTER, shows researchers how to make sure that their MS PowerPoint presentations are accessible for people using screen readers.
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How to Share Research about Education and Employment with the Deaf Community |
How to Share Research about Education and Employment with the Deaf Community This tip sheet focuses on best practices for sharing research findings with culturally Deaf individuals who primarily use ASL. However, many of the strategies described in the tip sheet align with principles for universal accessibility and will, therefore, apply to a diverse range of hearing people and people with hearing loss.
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Upcoming Webinar: Promoting Positive Youth Development in Juvenile Justice Settings: What Do We Need to Know? |
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Join Gina Vincent, Ph.D., Director of Translational Law & Psychiatry Research at iSPARC for her upcoming webinar on Tues., June 7, 2022 from 1-2 PM EDT.
Over the last 10 years, juvenile justice systems have shifted towards a desire for use of developmentally appropriate supervision practices, such as Positive Youth Development (PYD). The “Optimizing Supervision and Service Strategies to Reduce Reoffending” Study funded by the National Institute of Justice seeks to determine how to effectively implement PYD into community supervision and case planning. This project was designed to answer multiple practical questions to advance juvenile probation practices: For example, “What strengths-based services will result in the largest gains for youth and largest reductions in recidivism?” “How can the PYD approach be implemented with the Risk-Need-Responsivity approach in case planning to maximize reductions in recidivism?”
This presentation will describe the protective factors and strengths-based services thought to be most influential in reducing recidivism based on youths’ developmental stage and hypotheses about how these may be used in case planning.
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How Access Programs Can Improve Clinician Capacity to Manage Bipolar Disorder |
Bipolar disorder is a significant cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality. Because bipolar disorder is hard to detect and treat, individuals with bipolar disorder often go without care.
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Even though Perkins V is in the early stages of implementation (July 2020), states can leverage facets of the new law to address the challenges of supporting CTE access and success among learners with disabilities. Perkins V emphasizes supporting learners with special population status, giving states an opportunity to:
1. Build upon prior equity work to provide greater access to CTE among learners with disabilities.
2. To restructure systems and policies to better support these learners.
To explore how this opportunity has been used by states in their Perkin V plans, Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research researchers partnered with Advance CTE to survey State CTE Directors for secondary education. The brief summarizes survey results, provides state examples, and offers policy and programmatic considerations.
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Research shows that participation in Career Technical Education (CTE) coursework in high school provides opportunities to improve the otherwise poor employment and post-secondary outcomes of learners with emotional disturbance.
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Full-time role to support the Peer Academic Coaching Support for College Students (PASS) Project. The ideal candidate will be well organized and have excellent analytical and interpersonal skills.
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Law & Psychiatry: Full-time role available, to support faculty, staff, and a network of researchers on research related to supporting reduced rates of pretrial detention, particularly for individuals of color and those with behavioral health problems. This is a one-year appointment begins August 2022, with a second-year re-appointment expected.
Upcoming Events
- Date: Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2022
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As a MA Department of Mental Health Research Center of Excellence, we are here to help the MA DMH workforce with any Technical Assistance (TA) needs they may have by providing information based on research. iSPARC can provide expertise and information on a wide range of mental health-related topics. We provide Basic TA (e.g., tip sheets, brief phone consultation, etc.) at no cost and can provide more intensive TA (e.g., policy development, training, etc.) which requires approval of your area director or deputy commissioner, or for a fee.
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iSPARC is a Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) Center of Excellence (COE) for Public Mental Health Services and Implementation Research that aims to improve the mental and behavioral health of all citizens of Massachusetts and beyond. iSPARC is committed to transferring knowledge and insights gained through rigorous research to improve the lives of people with lived mental health experience.
We conduct Participatory Action Research, an all-inclusive approach that ensures that every aspect of our research incorporates the voices of those with lived mental health experience.
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