The Rural Web Portal: Healthy Children and Families

The Rural Portal: Healthy Children and Families provides a new and valuable technical assistance resource to rural and frontier communities working to transform systems for children’s behavioral health in rural and frontier areas. An outcome of the National Plan for Rural Behavioral Health, this activity is funded by the SAMHSA/Center for Mental Health Services. This innovative and efficient strategy to foster networking and information sharing of strategies and resources for children’s mental health, youth violence prevention and reduction or elimination of substance abuse problems in rural America was launched online on June 7, 2007.  “The Rural Portal: Healthy Children and Families” is also an effective and efficient use of technical assistance resources.