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  • July 18, 2022

    National Suicide Prevention Lifeline hotline launches 9-8-8

    The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline hotline is launching a new quick-dial option nationwide starting July 16. Anyone located within the United States can call or text 9-8-8 any time of day, seven days a week to receive support for suicidal, mental health, and substance use crisis. The line will

  • July 14, 2022

    19th MDG mental health clinic initiates group therapy program

    Secretary of the Air Force, Frank Kendall, recently met with the Air Force Medical Service leaders to discuss the Department of the Air Force’s approach to prioritizing care and support through ongoing initiatives aimed at improving access to mental health care resources.

  • July 13, 2022

    Healthy weight: How diet, lifestyle and mental health impact your eating habits and fitness

    Think you might need to lose a little weight? You're not alone. Even in the military, where maintaining physical fitness remains a job requirement and a key component of military readiness, thousands of service members struggle with weight.

  • July 1, 2022

    Base team reduces muscular-skeletal and mental health issues

    One of the first multidisciplinary medical operational support teams in the Air Force is working to reduce muscular-skeletal and mental health issues at Hill Air Force base.

  • June 30, 2022

    Kendall talks PTSD, mental health with medical leaders

    Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall met with Air Force Medical Service leaders to discuss the Department of the Air Force’s approach for prioritizing post-traumatic stress disorder care and support June 24.

  • June 15, 2022

    AFW2 briefs Airmen on resources

    The Air Force Wounded Warrior program ambassadors told their stories to Keesler Airmen across base from June 6 to 8. AFW2 provides support and services to wounded, ill and injured Airmen by providing nonmedical care support and helping facilitate some medical care support.

  • May 26, 2022

    Suicide prevention and mental health resources provide help: You are not alone

    Life is full of ups and downs. But sometimes life events - financial strain, relationships, isolation, emotional or sexual abuse, stress, and misuse or abuse of alcohol or drugs - can lead to depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide for some. It’s important to remember that you are not alone.

  • May 9, 2022

    Mental struggles often go hand-in-hand with alcohol abuse

    May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is also devoting attention to the dangers of alcohol abuse this month.

  • May 6, 2022

    Mental Health Awareness: It’s okay to answer Question 21

    May is Mental Health Awareness Month - a good time to bring up Question 21 on Standard Form 86, “Questionnaire for National Security Positions,” which federal employees complete for initial or renewed security clearances.

  • May 3, 2022

    Language-enabled Airmen support mental health initiative with partner nation

    A team of seven French Language Enabled Airman Program scholars recently partnered with the Defense Institute for Medical Operations to provide language support for a mental health mobile training team in N'Djamena, Chad.

  • March 25, 2022

    Air Force Surgeon General’s priority is creating high performing Airmen, Guardians (Part 1)

    The Air Force Surgeon General’s top priority is creating and sustaining high performing Airmen and Guardians who are medically ready for the future fight.

  • Feb. 18, 2022

    Air Force partners with NYU for mental health technician toolkit

    The Air Force is partnering with New York University to develop a toolkit for mental health technicians working with Airmen and Guardians outside of a traditional clinical setting.

  • Jan. 27, 2022

    Invisible Wounds Initiative helps build a supportive culture for Airmen, Guardians, and families through focused leadership

    The Command Team Campaign is a communications effort to increase knowledge and enable command teams to build connectedness, trust, and openness to tough conversations about cognitive, emotional, or behavioral conditions associated with trauma or adverse life events.

  • Oct. 20, 2021

    Resources available for Airmen seeking anxiety, depression, burnout

    Resources are available to support team members across the command in managing anxiety, mental health, burnout and more.

  • Aug. 23, 2021

    Air Force mental health leaders discuss future of the field

    Mental health leaders across the Air Force met virtually for an annual conference, which started on August 9, to discuss military mental health care, telehealth, the impact of COVID-19, and embedded mental health support.

  • Aug. 20, 2021

    Mental health: It takes a village

    Guardian Wingman, a suicide prevention training program designed by the Mental Health clinic at Kadena Air Base, Japan, aims to improve mental health management by building a community of Airmen equipped with the tools to support their fellow wingmen.

  • July 29, 2021

    Airman overcomes series of challenges relying on superb resiliency

    It was the first night in a while that she’d slept so soundly. Unfortunately, it was the one night she wishes she hadn’t. Murphy’s Law continued a long streak of unfolding in Janelle’s life. One incident after another. It was enough to yank the cheer right out of the average person, but not her.

  • June 29, 2021

    PTSD: Seeking out mental health care is the first step to wellness

    Service members, family members and veterans who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder may repeatedly re-experience their ordeal as nightmares, flashbacks or frightening thoughts, especially when exposed to events that remind them of their original trauma, according to the Centers for Disease

  • May 25, 2021

    Run toward the fire: My journey through mental illness

    Suicide has been a part of my Air Force journey. It took a conversation with someone I trust and respect greatly, who also happens to be a mental health professional, to realize that suicide came nearer to defining my own story than I’d been willing to admit.“I’m going to give you one piece of

  • May 19, 2021

    Reducing the stigma and encouraging mental health care in the military

    In the military, the stigma of mental health is grounded in the cultural misperception that a service member must have "zero defects" to be mission ready.While the Department of Defense strives to identify and eliminate barriers to care that service members face regarding mental health treatment,

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