March 2009 News

• Helping Young Veterans
  March 10, 2009

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• University of Texas at Austin to Help Military Families Who Have Children With Disabilities
  March 20, 2009

  AUSTIN, Texas — A new partnership between the Texas Center for Disability Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and the Exceptional Family Member Program in Fort Hood, Texas, has created the Fort Hood Family Support 360 Project to help military families caring for children with disabilities.

• Army post to get new hospital
  March 20, 2009

  Fort Hood is getting a new military hospital, thanks to $621 million in federal stimulus money.

• Helping Military Kids
  March 18, 2009

  For the nation's 1.8 million children in military families, coping with a deployed parent is a daily reality. Recent studies show military children are more likely to experience high levels of stress, lack of sleep, academic problems and maltreatment by the at-home parent.

• Soldiers Battling PTSD in Texas
  March 16, 2009

  An alarming number of soldiers - returning from war-zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, are coming home with an injury no bandage can heal.The personal and emotional crisis is not only taking a toll on militarylives. Some fear a much larger public crisis is about to explodeacross Texas.

• Anti-stigma campaigns undermined by media focus on violence
  March 18, 2009

  MedWire News - Initiatives to improve public attitudes toward people with mental illness can be effective but are also undermined by press coverage focusing on violence, UK researchers believe.

• SAMHSA Accepting Applications for Statewide Consumer Network Grant Program
  March 18, 2009

  The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is soliciting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2009 Statewide Consumer Network grants to help statewide consumer run organizations build a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining effective mental health services.

• A General's Personal Battle
  March 28, 2009

  Maj. Gen. Mark Graham is on the frontlines of the Army's struggle to stop its soldiers from killing themselves. Through a series of novel experiments, the 32-year military veteran has turned his sprawling base here into a suicide-prevention laboratory.

• Lawmakers want faster progress on TBI, PTSD
  March 3, 2009

  A hearing meant to give Defense Department officials a chance to explain their plans for spending $900 million allocated for mental health care quickly turned into a debate on how that money should be spent.

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