u.s. department of health and human services. before, addiction and depression kept me from living my life. now, every step i take in recovery benefits everyone. there are many options that make the road to recovery more accessible. it begins with the first step. join the voices for recovery. for information and treatment referral for you or someone you love, call 1-800-662-help. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. [music] like a lot of people experiencing mental illness kind of later in life, i really, my symptoms became profound in my 30s. i started having these mood swings, so i decided i should go see a doctor. and i went to my regular doctor, who examined me, but he was not really familiar with psychiatrics and he just said you need a vacation. so i minimized the whole idea in my mind and i continued to get worse and eventually really destroyed my company that i owned at the time. my next step into mental health was that i ended up in a psychiatric hospital. and if we had had the type of care t

u.s. department of health and human services. [music] a little over 7 years ago i was sleeping underneath of a bridge on the streets for 19 years eating out of a trash can, going in and out of correctional and mental health systems. i racked up 83 arrest and 66 convictions all due to my substance abuse because i was trying to cope with the trauma that had happened in my life. and i would go in and out of prison, and they would say, "this is how you're going to spend the rest of your life, or you're going to die in the streets." once i was able to go to a program where my trauma was addressed, the tamar children program, my trauma was identified, addressed, and treated. i was able to change my belief system from "i am nothing" to "i am somebody," and i can be anything i want in this world. see, when my belief system changed, my thought process changed. and i started to make the best decisions based on me believing that i was worth a better life. dr. harris, let's focus a little bit on issues of trauma for children and youth. you've

director, center for substance abuse prevention, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, md; jane callahan, director, national community anti-drug coalition institute, community anti-drug coalitions of america, alexandria, va; jordan burnham, mental health advocate, active minds inc., washington, dc; dr. wendy greene, assistant director of trauma and critical care and program developer, screening, brief interventions and referral to treatment program, howard university hospital, washington, dc. fran, what is the definition of behavioral health, and how do we distinguish between prevention, early intervention, and treatment within that definition? the definition for behavioral health for samhsa is we are taking the substance abuse and mental health prevention, intervention, and treatment programs, and we are encasing it within the disorder realm. so substance abuse, prevention, intervention, and treatment are exactly the same, same levels, and so is mental health. we are finding that mental health properties for prevention, especially, are very similar

u.s. department of health and human services. they tell me i was there, but i don't remember. i don't know where i really was. i do not know what i had for breakfast. i do not know who won the game. i don't recognize this man. if you or someone you know is struggling with a drug or alcohol problem, there is a solution-recovery. call 1-800-662-help for information and for hope. through treatment, my life is a whole lot brighter now. brought to you by the u.s. department of health and human services. [music] columbus house provides shelter, emergency shelter services to single men and women. and we do that year round, we are most known for that service. in terms of the soar project, we are targeting folks who are in our shelter and who are living outside, unfortunately, living outside but are engaged with our outreach and engagement team. soar stands for ssi, ssdi, outreach, access, and recovery. it's a project that started in 2005 when the federal government was holding policy academies to address homelessness across the country. a

u.s. department of health and human services. rate. been a great year hereeat fox45.we added an extra hour of coverage tooour morning show."good day baltimoree made its debut last january.i got married, patrice got engaggd, and we've had tons of memorable moments along the way.we've been counting down our top five.... let's recap... number 5 - back in septemmer- green screen 3 - in october- this was the result oo a pigskin predictions bet between the mayor and patrice number 3 --patrice came back to wook onn monday in october with a &pnumber 2 testing out fitness christmas - gifts - a viewer avorite and our number onn moment is.. is......... 3 - our director karen spooked patrice on halloween. ii you'd like to see all of our producer's picks for the best moments of the year... just go to our website foxbaltimore dot com slash morning and look under the "producer picks" list. 33 33 ((break 8)) 3

of myself. narrator: you have many reasons to stay healthy. exercise and physical activity can help. so that national institute on aging at nih, of the u.s. department of health and human servicesnow excercise three times a week. narrator: featuring exercises you can do anywhere. irene: i can really go. narrator: find our more, visit nia.hih.gov/go4life. >> welcome back to "our world with black enterprise." are men and women equal in our society? where do we stand on genteder justice? here to talk about it is assistant professor of english and africana studies in university of pennsylvania and co-founder of "long walk home." award-winning filmmaker maker, and a kiba solomon. thank you all for joining us. >> thank you. >> there's so much conversation today about race. even if people don't like it they're talking about race, they're talking about poverty and economics. one thing that rarely gets talked about are issues of gender. what's going on? why is that? >> i think the basic answer to the question is that men and women, like you said, the question is part of the value the same and men and women aren't the same in our society and it's not unique to the united states and i thi

u.s. department of health and human services [music] so, screening and brief intervention is what we call a secondary prevention approach. so, it is a way of intercepting people who might be already engaging in risky substance abuse behavior and trying to reduce their abuse and reduce the harm that they might experience from their substance use. we decided to do our intervention in this mental health clinic. and that's something that hadn't been done before, so we decided to use this very brief screening and brief intervention tool called the assist. it is the alcohol smoking and substance involvement screening test, which was developed by the world health organization. well, we use the assist results in intervention planning quite immediately; that is part of the beauty of the assist, that it has kind of a built-in intervention that, based on the score that is deduced from the eight questions of the assist, you are kind of guided to do a validating response, a brief intervention, or an intervention with kind of a referral to treatment or a discussion about kind of getting further treatme

u.s. department of health and human services. [music] the mission of the national council for community behavioral healthcare is to, through our membership, to reach out to individuals who may not have access to behavioral health services or may not know that those services are available to them. and mental health first aid is a way that we can teach the generaral public about menl illness and how they can help. well, what's the difference between say, just nervousness or normal anxiety and something that might rise to the level of disorder? mental health first aid is a program for the general public, for people who maybe don't know, could know nothing about mental illness. we have signs everywhere about how to recognize if someone is having a stroke. any questions about nonsuicidal self-injury, this behavior, before we move on to talk about anxiety disorders? but i have never heard anyone come out and say these are things to recognize that someone in your family might be mentally ill and, even further, what to do about it. much

of the obama white house owns the controlling shares in a company called siga technologies, and siga this year won a sweet $432 million no-bid contract from the u.s. department of health and human services that even a democrat says is a little bit too sweet to ignore. >> how did this become a no-bid contract? was it justified as a no-bid contract? overall i think we need to begin asking some policy questions about the kind of money we're spending on developing drugs where the united states government is the only customer. >> reporter: democrat senator claire mccaskill is calling for an investigation. capitol hill republicans have already launched their own. >> the fact that the regular procurement process wasn't followed. that's something we definitely know. there's a lot of political connection there. >> reporter: first a little background. during the bush administration and following 9/11, the idea of terrorists using bioweapons became a real concern. among the threats, smallpox. it hasn't been a threat in decades, and even if it did return, the u.s. still has enough vaccine for everyone in the country. but what to do if terrorists somehow were able to release the smallpox virus befor

u.s. department of health and human services to release liheap funds as quickly and as at a high level as possible. we must follow up on this action by fully funding the liheap program. on october 28, the department health and human services released $1.7 billion for the liheap program. this is a start but we need another $3 billion to ensure that we sustain level funding from last year. depending on how and what the final appropriations are for the fiscal year 2012, it is important to recognize that we will need over $1 billion to fully fund the liheap program. mr. president, i believe that seniors should not have to choose between paying for medication and their heating bills. families should not have to choose between putting food on the table or keeping their furnace on at night. and children should always have a warm home to sleep in at night. the liheap program is targeting those families that are most in need. in fact, the average household served by the liheap program in minnesota had an income of $16,000, and 85% of the homes served by the liheap program included at least one sen

of course, teamed up for this investigation. and as you know, we took our questions to the u.s. government, only to find u.s. agencies referring us to each other. the secretary of the department of health and human serviceseclined our request for an interview, but we did sit down with robert nelson of the food and drug administration, which regulates drugs in this country. and, we ask him, who is going to lead the charge? who is going to do it? it seems as if every time to you talk to someone, it's someone else's problem, and -- >> well, the local foster care systems have to put that in place. >> reporter: is it time to issue a wakeup call about the use of these drugs in children? >> well, i certainly think people should be well aware of what's going on and begin to look into it. i'm not -- i'd be curious to hear what you think a wakeup call would be and what that might look like. >> reporter: you're the fda. >> i know this is an issue that has been discussed and obviously we're well aware of it. whether an fda advisory or some sort of announcement would have an impact, i think, would be a possibility to consider. >> reporter: you're sitting at home at night alone. which agency do you blame? >> well -- i