Welcome to The Rural Web Portal: Healthy Children and Families

Helping Communities to Enhance Social and Emotional Outcomes for Children and Families in Rural and Frontier Areas

Next Rural Behavioral Health Webinar:

PLACE Matters: A Conversation about Rural America and Social determinants

(tentative) November 9, 2011             3:00-4:30pm ET

What role and importance does "PLACE" have in guiding effective practices to promote children's behavioral health equity in rural communities and how does health care reform support this work?

Did you miss the last Rural Behavioral Health Webinar? Don’t worry, you can still download the materials and view a recording of the webinar. 

When the Unexpected Happens: Helping Rural Communities Recover After Disaster
October 5, 2011

This webinar examine the relevance of preparedness and the follow-up efforts to support recovery – CDR Maryann Robinson, Branch Chief for SAMHSA’s interagency agreement with FEMA and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) will offer key considerations and resources that support preparedness, response and recovery.  NCTSN grantee, Dr. Joyce Osofsky from Louisiana Rural Trauma Services Center (LRTSC), will share best practices in their work providing crisis and mental health services for underserved youth and families in rural Louisiana parishes. This webinar will also highlight the Oil Spill Distress campaign’s coordinated efforts to provide on the ground supports to children and families coping with disaster-related trauma and stress and include steps schools and local community organizations in rural communities can take to support those after a disaster and foster resiliency. 

Get the materials here: http://www.promoteprevent.org/webinar/when-unexpected-happens-helping-rural-communities-recover-after-disaster

The Rural Behavioral Health Webinar Series 2011 is sponsored by the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch, Center for Mental Health Services at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, in collaboration with the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention, the National TA Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University, and the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health.

About the Rural Portal

Navigating the online meeting site

To navigate the web site, simply follow the links in the navigation bar on the left side of the screen.

Links on the sidebar which are intended to access an external web site will open the web site in the active area to the right of the sidebar unless otherwise noted. This is so you can easily stay within the web site and to also reduce the number of browser windows that open on your computer.

Online Discussions
We have created a Discussion Board space for rural grantees to engage in non-live, or asynchronous, dialogs on issues that are most important to their communities.

The discussion boards are open only to those participants who log in to the Rural Portal.
To learn how to log in and join the discussion boards, please click the link called “How to Use the Discussion Boards”

Can I print these materials?

You can print any of the pages, and you also have the option to save some of them to your computer.   At the top of each page is a link that says “right click to download file.” To save to your computer, right click that link, and select “save target or file as.” Likewise, you can right click on any area of the page you are looking at and your browser should give you an option to print that page as well.

This Portal is a “living” document

There are currently several TA Centers collecting and organizing the many rural-specific resources. As we find additional resources, we will be adding them to the portal. If you notice something missing or have a document or resource that you think should be added, please let us know. Please send your questions and comments to Joyce Sebian at jks29@georgetown.edu.