http://www.citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/ News from the Citizen Soldier Support Program website <p>CSSP has&nbsp; created a Facebook page&nbsp;<em> N.C. Citizen Soldier &ndash; Things I wish </em><em>I had known</em>,&nbsp; where servicemembers and their loved ones can posts comments, pictures, and even home videos to share advice for a successful reintegration process. We invite everyone from the community to join us. <a title="Facebook page" href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/pages/NC-Citizen-Soldier-Things-I-wish-I-had-known/263344584223... http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=21 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 <a href="http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/12/29/32369-military-partners-with-communities-to-extend-services/">Military Partners with Communities to Extend Service</a>s.&nbsp; CSCs have been trained by Army OneSource and Citizen Soldier Support Program at the University of North Carolina's Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at Chapel Hill.&nbsp; <br /> http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=19 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 <p><a href="http://www.citizensoldiersupport.org/lib/upload/pdfs/Military%20Partners%20with%20Communities%20to%20Extend%20Services.pdf">Military Partners with Communites to Extend Services</a> Article highlights that CSCs have been trained by Army OneSource and the Citizen Soldier Support Program at the University of North Carolina's Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at Chapel Hill.<br /></p> http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=20 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:... http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=18 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 <p>UNC and CSSP announce a change in the Programs Director and a strengthened focus on the behavioral health issues facing our Reserve Component Service Members and their families. <a href="http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3103/68/ ">http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3103/68/</a></p><p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <... http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=17 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 <p>Read BG (Ret) Dan Hickman' OpEd in the News and Observer <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/columnists_blogs/story/138558.html">&quot;Carry On With A Program Supporting Returned Soldiers&quot;.</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p> http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=15 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 <p>Rep David Price Responded to the News &amp; Observer in letter entitled <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/story/117438.html">&quot;Worthy Of Support&quot;.</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p> http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=16 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 <p>Senior CSSP staff attended the Defense Forum Washington's conference entitled &quot;Coping with Unseen Injuries: From Battlefield to Homefront&quot; in Alexandria, VA. Presenters included Admiral Michael G. Mullen, USN, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; the Honorable John McCain, (R-AZ), Ranking Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services; the Honorable L. Tammy Duckworth, Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Intergovernmental... http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=14 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 <p>CSSP's Behavioral Health initiative training partnership with the North Carolina AHEC is detailed and praised in an article in the current issue of Psychiatric News. Entitled &quot;<a target="_blank" title="Military Hopes Civilian Clinicians Can Shrink Treatment Gap" href="http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/44/16/16">Military Hopes Civilian Clinicians Can Shrink Treatment Gap</a>,&quot; the article discusses how CSSP's mission to... http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=11 Fri, 4 Sep 2009 <p>CSSP's&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.citizensoldiersupport.org/initiatives/building-community-partnerships.php">Building Community Partnerships</a> team presented &quot;Effective Communications to Facilitate Military/Community Partnerships&quot; at the Family Readiness Conference in Chicago on September 2, 2009.</p><p>CSSP's&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.citizensoldiersupport.org/initiatives/">Behavioral Health</a> team also... http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=12 Wed, 2 Sep 2009 <p>CSSP's&nbsp;<a href="http://www.citizensoldiersupport.org/initiatives/">Behavioral Health</a> team presented &quot;Improving Geographic and Financial Access to Behavioral Health Professionals&quot; at the Family Readiness Conference in Chicago on September 2, 2009.</p><p>CSSP's <a href="http://www.citizensoldiersupport.org/initiatives/building-community-partnerships.php">Building Community Partnerships</a> team also attended the conference, where... http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=13 Wed, 2 Sep 2009 <p>Learn about CSSP's work in behavioral health for Reserve Component Service Members and Families in the Spring 2009 issue of <a href="http://ssw.unc.edu/files/web/ContactSpring09.pdf" target="_blank">Contact</a> the magazine of the UNC School of Social Work. An excerpt is below:</p><p><em>&quot;... (O)ver the last few years, UNC&rsquo;s Citizen Soldier Support Program (CSSP), the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (NCAHEC) and the N.C... http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=8 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 <p>CSSP is partnering with the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-Chapel Hill to develop an easily searchable, open-source provider database that Veterans and their families can use to connect with providers who have received PTSD/TBI training and/or who have expressed interest in serving Veterans and their families. The database will go live later this year.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=6 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 <p>CSSP has begun to develop suicide prevention training for civilian clinicians serving service members and their families. This training emphasizes a deliberate and innovative rural outreach strategy as a part of that effort. CSSP has also begun work with several organizations who practice telepsychiatry to provide mental health services to solve the workforce shortage problem that directly affects access to care, especially in remote and under... http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=5 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 <p><span class="style2">Read <a title="CSSP Profile in NC AHEC Review" href="http://www.ncahec.net/pubs/newsletters/2009_Summer/cssp.html">the full article online</a>! (Excerpt below)</span></p><p><em><span class="style2">CSSP&rsquo;s partnership with the NC AHEC system has been showcased at several national conventions, creating an interest in replicating the trainings nationwide. Trainings have already been held by AHECs in Florida, South Carolina... http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=7 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 <p>A group of senior leaders from the 8 county region surrounding Lexington, Kentucky has established building community partnerships and signing an Army Community Covenant as one of their 2009 areas of joint activity. CSSP staff and consultants are helping the group connect effectively with the military, develop sound partnerships, and coordinate with the Army Community Covenant program.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> http://citizensoldiersupportprogram.com/news-events/detail.php?type=news&id=4 Wed, 8 Jul 2009