Mental Health Awareness Month

• Live Your Life Well
• Resources Across the MHS and Its Partners
  • Getting Your Benefits
  • MHS Organizations
  • Support for You and Your Family
  • More Information

Live Your Life Well

We live in difficult times. With engagements overseas and economic difficulties at home, we all feel the stress of life every day. As part of the national observance of Mental Health Awareness Month, the Military Health System joins Mental Health America in encouraging you and your loved ones to "Live Your Life Well" by taking advantage of tools and resources inside and outside the MHS that can be of value to you and your family.

An important tool is the Military Mental Health Self-Assessment Program:

Military life, especially deployments or mobilizations, can present challenges to service members and their families that are both unique and difficult. Some are manageable, some are not. Many times we can successfully deal with them on our own. In some instances matters get worse and one problem can trigger other more serious issues. At such times it is wise to check things out and see what is really happening. That's the purpose of these totally anonymous and voluntary self-assessments.

Finally, and especially important considering last month's observation of the Month of the Military Child, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is Celebrating Children's Mental Well-Being this month.

Below is a list of the many programs that the Military Health System and its partners provide to support the mental well-being of service members, veterans, retirees and their families and friends. You can find related content on health.mil to the right.

Resources Across the MHS and Its Partners

Getting Your Benefits

	TRICARE - Mental Health and Behavior for Beneficiaries - TRICARE covers mental health/behavioral health care that is medically or psychologically necessary for treatment of a behavioral health disorder. Information on how to get care, treatment options, and resources
	Veterans Affairs - Mental Health Resources - Mental health resources for veterans

MHS Organizations

	Courage to Care Campaign (Uniformed Services University) - Courage to Care is a new, electronic health campaign for military and civilian professionals serving the military community, as well as for military service members and families. Courage to Care consists of electronic fact sheets on timely health topics relevant to military life that provide actionable information.
	Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE)- DCoE assesses, validates, oversees and facilitates prevention, resilience, identification, treatment, outreach, rehabilitation, and reintegration programs for psychological health and traumatic brain injury (TBI) to ensure the Department of Defense meets the needs of the nation's military communities, warriors and families.
	Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center - The mission of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) is to serve active duty military, their dependents and veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) through state-of-the-art medical care, innovative clinical research initiatives and educational programs.
	Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress - The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress conducts research, education, consultation and training on preparing for and responding to the psychological effects and health consequences of traumatic events. These events include natural (hurricanes, floods and tsunami) and human made disasters (motor vehicle and plane crashes, war, terrorism and bioterrorism).
	Center for Deployment Psychology - The Center for Deployment Psychology was developed to promote the education of psychologists and other behavioral health specialists about issues pertaining to the deployment of military personnel.
	PDhealth.mil - Deployment Health Clinical Center - PDHealth.mil was designed to assist clinicians in the delivery of post-deployment health care by fostering a trusting partnership between military service members, veterans, their families, and their health care providers to ensure the highest quality care for those who make sacrifices in the world's most hazardous workplace.
	National Center for Telehealth and Technology - The National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2) researches, develops, evaluates, and deploys new and existing technologies for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) across the Department of Defense.
	National Intrepid Center of Excellence - The NICoE concept features a holistic approach to the referral, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of those with complex traumatic brain injury and psychological disorders.
	Force Health Protection and Readiness - Includes research on mental health issues through DeployMED ResearchLink Research Projects Publications Reports