The month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month. While millions of Americans live with a mental illness, NDCS provides many clinical treatment programs focused on mental health to the incarcerated population.

 Approximately 19% of adults in the U.S. suffer from an anxiety disorder. NDCS offers the Anxiety Reduction/Coping with Anxiety programs, which teach anxiety reduction behaviors and increase the ability to function with anxiety.

 Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. NDCS provides Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, which is a program to help suicidal and self-harm behaviors.

 The START Now program re-enforces personal responsibility for behavior, teaching about the connections between thoughts, feelings and behavior.

Those are just a few of the clinical treatment programs that are focused on mental health for rehabilitation at NDCS. For more information on all NDCS clinical treatment programs, visit our website: https://corrections.nebraska.gov/about/rehabilitation/clinical-treatment 
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