In the last week,

• This sweet letter went viral. Read it here.
• A 9-year old boy’s amazing handwashing invention earned him the Kenyan Presidential Order of Service Uzalendo (Patriotic) Award. Read about it here.
• Locally, the City of San Diego began offering free lunches Tuesday for children in need. Learn more here.
• The San Diego Humane Society continues to help foster thousands of animals and continue to get more animals adopted. See the news piece here.

Happy weekend!

One in five Americans has experienced a mental health issue. Those from marginalized communities have compounded effects, as mental health illnesses are not uniformly treated. The goal of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights virtual series is to address key areas of disparity in mental health treatment.

Recorded webinars on various dimensions of health and human rights can be found at the following website: https://www.2020healthsummit.org/webinars.

Topics of webinars include the toll of white supremacy and trauma on mental health, states’ failing mental health parity laws, mental health among young people in marginalized communities, and trauma informed care relating to gender-based and intersectionality-based violence. Each webinar has a group of distinguished panelists from a variety of fields. You can find a list of resources relating to each issue as you watch the webinar, as well.

Effectively preventing suicide requires an understanding of who is attempting and dying by suicide, where the problem is most severe, and under what circumstances attempts and suicide deaths occur. The two-hour long online course “Locating and Understanding Data for Suicide Prevention” is available to anyone and presents a variety of data sources that are useful for finding information about suicide deaths, suicide attempts, and suicidal ideation.

After completing this course, attendees will be able to:

• Define and understand the difference between suicide deaths, suicide attempts, suicide ideation, and risk and protective factors for suicide

• Explain key terms essential to accurately interpreting data and making meaningful comparisons

• Identify commonly used and readily accessible online national data sources, and the type of data that is available from each source

• Identify alternative data sources that may be available in states and communities, the type of data available from these sources, and considerations when approaching organizations and agencies for these data

• Think critically about the strengths and limitations of a given data source

Learn more and sign up for this course or similar courses at https://training.sprc.org/.

MHS North Inland Substance Use Prevention would like to invite you to our upcoming online event with former Medical Officer of the White House Dr. Roneet Lev. Dr. Roneet Lev will be available for a Live Q&A. On the flyer there is a link to RSVP for this event on July 22^nd, please RSVP to receive the link for the event. Feel free to extend this invitation to any community members or community partners. Looking forward to seeing you online.

To view registration details, click here.