MIMH Addiction Science Team
Truman VA Hospital
he Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital is a Veterans Administration (VA) hospital located in Columbia, Missouri. Located adjacent to the University of Missouri campus, the hospital has a coverage area of 43 counties in Missouri and Illinois and serves more than 38,000 veterans inpatient and 314,000 veterans outpatient.[1][2] Affiliated with the University of Missouri School of Medicine, it provides primary care, surgical, mental health, medical, geriatric, transitional, rehabilitative, and hospice services.[3] The medical center has achieved some of the best scores in the state of Missouri for JCAHO Quality Reporting.
website: WWW.VA.GOV
The Tobacco Prevention and Control Program (TPCP) works to reduce deaths and prevent chronic diseases that result from tobacco use. TPCP strives to improve the health of Missourians by promoting and supporting tobacco-free environments and lifestyles. TPCP and its partners promote and implement tobacco control interventions, including actions to prevent youth from starting to use tobacco-related products, increase access to smoke/tobacco-free environments, offer programs to help tobacco users quit, and take steps to achieve health equity by eliminating tobacco-related health disparities in different population groups.
website: www.health.mo.gov
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is a three digit number for anyone experiencing a mental health, suicide, or substance use crisis. 988 offers rapid access to behavioral health support through connection with trained crisis specialists. If you or someone you know is experiencing a crisis, call or text 988 or chat online at 988lifeline.org/chat for free and confidential support available 24/7. To learn more about 988 in Missouri, visit Missouri988.org.
website: https://Missouri988.org
Missouri’s Early Psychosis Care initiative is bringing to the forefront the importance of identification and intervention as critical steps in reducing the impact of psychosis on affected individuals, their families, and our community. Through educational opportunities and outreach, EPC will raise awareness state-wide about best practices, current trends in research, offer learning collaboratives, and implement new strategies, research, and trends into practice.
Current priorities are:
1. Provide training, consultation, and implementation support to early intervention programs that specifically address early psychosis care in Missouri.
2. Through community outreach, provide education and support to individuals seeking information and resources on early psychosis.
3. Promote evidenced-based care and advance research on early psychosis, as it relates to promoting implementation science and clinical outcomes.
Centurion Health provides healthcare services to governmental agencies in a wide variety of patient care settings, including correctional facilities, state hospitals, courts, juvenile facilities, and community clinics.
Neurocrine Biosciences (Nasdaq: NBIX) is a neuroscience-focused, biopharmaceutical company with more than 25 years of experience discovering and developing life-changing treatments for people with serious, challenging and under-addressed neurological, endocrine and psychiatric disorders. The company’s diverse portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for tardive dyskinesia and endometriosis* and clinical development programs in multiple therapeutic areas including Parkinson’s disease, congenital adrenal hyperplasia and uterine fibroids*. Headquartered in San Diego, Neurocrine Biosciences specializes in targeting and interrupting disease-causing mechanisms involving the interconnected pathways of the nervous and endocrine systems. For more information, visit neurocrine.com, and follow the company on LinkedIn. (*in collaboration with AbbVie)
website: https://www.neurocrine.com
Specializing in Adult Inpatient Behavioral Health
website: osagebeachbehavioralhealth.com
The Safer Homes Collaborative is a joint effort between the gun owning community and the suicide prevention community to raise awareness that suicide can be prevented through safe gun storage. Firearms are the leading method by which people end their lives in the United States and Missouri. Statistically, more people attempt suicide by overdose or suffocation; however, more people die in a suicide attempt with a firearm. In fact, six out of ten suicide deaths in Missouri are with a firearm.
website: https://SaferHomesCollaborative.org
Under the auspices of the Division of Behavioral Health (DBH), DMH serves as the state lead for suicide prevention and crisis intervention services. DMH oversees and implements several evidence-based suicide prevention programs and initiatives, including the Missouri Suicide Prevention Network, an independent, non-partisan group of individuals and organizations that lead and coordinate statewide suicide prevention efforts. DMH is also leading statewide efforts to implement and enhance behavioral health crisis services that align with national best practices to ensure help is available for anyone, anywhere, and at any time. To achieve a truly integrated and comprehensive crisis system that is equipped to meet the needs of individuals in crisis, DMH and stakeholders are prioritizing the coordination of these three crisis components: 988 (Someone to talk to), ACI Mobile Crisis Response (Someone to respond), and Behavioral Health Crisis Centers (Somewhere to go).
For more information, please visit: https://dmh.mo.gov/behavioral-health/suicide/prevention
