CDC Releases Important Mental Health Action Plan

Dear Colleagues:

Today, CDC is releasing the attached Public Health Action Plan to Integrate Mental Health Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention with Chronic Disease, 2011-2015.  This document highlights the importance of mental health promotion and mental illness prevention in a public health context.  The document also can be accessed at the CDC mental health web page at http://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/ .

These developments are very important for our field, and they reflect the very first efforts to integrate positive mental health into public health interventions.

Ron

Ron Manderscheid, PhD

Executive Director,

Natl Assn of Co Beh Hlth & Dev Dis Dirs/www.nacbhdd.org

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ACMHA: The College for Behavioral Health Leadership/www.acmha.org

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