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American Association of Community Psychiatrists - The Mission of AACP is to inspire, empower, and equip
Community Psychiatrists to promote and provide quality
care and to integrate practice with policies that improve
the well being of individuals and communities.
(See “Products” or “Findings”- Continuity of Care
Guidelines, LOCUS & CALOCUS information, Position
Statements, etc.) |
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American College of Mental Health Administration - The American College of Mental Health Administration
(ACMHA) was founded in order to advance the field of
mental health and substance abuse administration and to
promote the continuing education of clinical professionals
in the areas of administration and policy. The ACMHA
Library includes a wealth of information and reports on
best practices, many of which were generated through ACMHA
initiatives. Issues include workforce education, financing
of behavioral health, and quality indicators.
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American Psychological Association |
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American Psychological Association |
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Anxiety Disorder Association of America |
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Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law - For three decades, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for
Mental Health Law has been the nation's leading legal
advocate for people with mental disabilities. Checkout
their published handbooks, manuals, issue papers and
reports explaining key legal and policy issues in everyday
terms and highlighted issues related to mental health law. |
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Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice - The Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
supports and promotes a reoriented national preparedness
to foster the development and the adjustment of children
with or at risk of developing serious emotional
disturbance. To achieve that goal, the Center is dedicated
to a policy of collaboration at Federal, state, and local
levels that contributes to and facilitates the production,
exchange, and use of knowledge about effective practices. |
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Center for Innovative Practice - The mission of the Center for Innovative Practices is to
increase access to and availability of evidence-based &
best practice mental health interventions for youth and
their families.
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Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research - The CMHPSR researches the organization, financing, and
management structure of mental health care systems and the
delivery of mental health services and provides
consultation and technical support to those individuals
and programs involved in implementing system change. The
Center has attempted to use the results of its research
and evaluation efforts to inform the decision making of
public policy makers at local, state, and national levels. |
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Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation - The Center is a research, training, and service
organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons
who have psychiatric disabilities. Their mission is to
increase the likelihood that persons who have psychiatric
disabilities can achieve their goals by improving the
effectiveness of people, programs, and service systems. |
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Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health - The Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in
Mental Health (CQAIMH) conducts mental health services
research and provides quality management services to
improve community-based care for individuals with mental
health and addictions disorders. Consisting of faculty and
staff from the Institute for Clinical Research & Health
Policy Studies at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts
University School of Medicine and Harvard University,
CQAIMH develops methods of quality assessment, studies
organizational determinants of quality, and tests
strategies for quality improvement. |
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Center for the Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice - The Center and its collaborators work to promote efficient
means for comprehensive and reliable mental health
assessment. In addition, we assist juvenile justice
programs in determining how to implement these procedures
and how to map appropriate mental health services onto
them. We develop products to move information and
knowledge between the fields of juvenile justice and
mental health and we provide recommendations for practice. |
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Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health - The Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health
promotes the integration of research, policy and practice
in public mental health. This web-site is being maintained
as an archive of the many projects, conferences,
publications and other activities of this Center that were
produced during this period. |
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CHADD (Children & Adults with Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder) |
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Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder |
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Children's Safety Network - Suicide Prevention - Children’s Safety Network (CSN) seeks to prevent injuries
and violence among children and adolescents by
strengthening the injury prevention capacity of state
health department staff. |
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Community Behavioral Health - Utilization Management Guide - The purpose of the Utilization Management Guide is to
provide a framework for making clinical decisions based
upon how well information provided during an initial or
concurrent review meets the Clinical Care Guide. It
outlines specific documentation procedures, authorization
protocols for initial and concurrent reviews, discharge
planning and physician consultation and review. |
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Co-Ocurring Center for Excellence - SAMHSA created the Co-Occurring Center for Excellence
(COCE) as a vital link between the agency and States,
communities, and providers. COCE provides the technical,
informational, and training resources needed for the
dissemination of knowledge and the adoption of evidence-
based practices in systems and programs that serve persons
with co-occurring disorders. |
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Depression and Biopolar Support Alliance |
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Early Childhood Supports and Services |
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Evidence Based Practice Toolkits - All of the Evidence Based Practices toolkits can be
downloaded directly from this web site. The Kits contain
many useful resources, including: Information Sheets for
all stakeholder groups, Introductory videos, and Workbook
or manual for Practitioners. |
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Evidence Based Practices - Basic information about the first six evidence-based
practices is available on this website. The six practices
are: 1) Illness Management and Recovery, 2) Family
Psychoeducation, 3) Medication Management Approaches in
Psychiatry, 4) Assertive Community Treatment, 5) Supported
Employment, and 6) Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment.
Just click on one of the six evidence-based practices to
obtain further information about that specific practice
area. |
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Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health - The National family-run organization dedicated exclusively
to helping children with mental health needs and their
families achieve a better quality of life. We 1) Provide
leadership to develop and sustain a nationwide network of
family-run organizations, 2) Focus the passion and
cultural diversity of our membership to be a potent force
for changing how systems respond to children with mental
health needs and their families, and 3) Help policy-
makers, agencies, and providers become more effective in
delivering services and supports that foster healthy
emotional development for all children. |
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FFCHMH (Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health) |
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Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development - The mission the GUCCHD is to bring together policy,
research and clinical practice for the betterment of
individuals and families, especially children, youth and
those with special needs including: developmental
disabilities and special health care needs, mental health
needs, young children and those in the child welfare
system. |
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Health Systems Research, Inc. - HSR is a public-policy research and consulting firm that
provides policy, programmatic, and technical support to
primarily public-sector clients at the Federal, State, and
local levels. |
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International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services - IAPSRS (the International Association of Psychosocial
Rehabilitation Services) is the premier source for
individuals around the world and those interested in
international issues who practice and support
psychiatric/psychosocial rehabilitation. We offer the
amazing opportunity for you to discuss psychiatric
rehabilitation issues with members from around the globe.
You can also find information about Psychiatric
Rehabilitation in several languages. |
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Kendra's Law (New York) - New York State has enacted legislation that provides for
court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) for
certain people with mental illness who, in view of their
treatment history and present circumstances, are unlikely
to survive safely in the community without supervision. |
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LA Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health |
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LAFFCMH (Louisiana Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health) |
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Laura's Law (California) - The goal for 2008 of the California Treatment Advocacy
Coalition (CTAC) is to make assisted outpatient treatment
available in all Californian counties to help those who
are rendered incapable of accessing obviously needed
treatment by the symptoms of a severe mental illness like
schizophrenia. |
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Louisiana Disaster Recovery Authority -
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Louisiana Family Recovery Corps -
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Louisiana Integrated Treatment Services Initiative - The mission of LITS is to develop a system in which all
Mental Health and Substance Abuse programs should be
expected to be Co-occurring Diagnosis Capable (CODC). |
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Louisiana Office of Mental Health |
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LSU Health Science Department of Psychiatry -
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Mental Health Recovery - In 1999, the Ohio Department of Mental Health, with the
collaboration of consumers, family members, clinicians and
mental health board staff developed the Emerging Best
Practices in Mental Health Recovery process. These pages
provide an overview of the process, the guiding principles
that drive the process, a summary of how to use the Best
Practices and the Best Practices components. |
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Mental Health Rehabilitation Services |
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Mental Health Statistics Improvement Project - MHSIP - People receiving mental health services, and people
managing and providing those services, have questions
about who's providing the best services at the best price,
who needs services, what the best treatments are for
different kinds of problems, or who has the friendliest
staff. To answer any of these questions, people need
dependable information. That's what MHSIP is about--mental
health information (or data), how to collect it, what
needs to be collected, where to find what others have
collected, how to understand what you find, how to report
it so other people can understand it, and how to use it to
make decisions. |
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NAMHPAC (National Association for Mental Health Planning and Advisory Councils) |
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NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) |
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NAMI (National Alliance on Mentally Illness) |
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NAMI Louisiana |
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National Alliance for the Mentally Ill - NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) is the
nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization
dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with
serious mental illness and their families. Founded in
1979, NAMI has become the nation’s voice on mental
illness, a national organization including NAMI
organizations in every state and in over 1100 local
communities across the country who join together to meet
the NAMI mission through advocacy, research, support, and
education |
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National Alliance on Mental Illness-Louisiana links - Great resource on mental health. |
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National Association of School Psychologists - The NASP website (including the Center) has been listed as
one of the Guidance Channel's Top Ten Websites on Child
and Adolescent Mental Health! |
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National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors - NASMHPD helps set the agenda and determine the direction
of state mental health agency interests across the
country, historically including state mental health
planning, service delivery, and evaluation. The
association provides members with the opportunity to
exchange diverse views and experiences, learning from one
another in areas vital to effective public policy
development and implementation. NASMHPD provides a broad
array of services designed to identify and respond to
critical policy issues, cutting-edge consultation,
training, and technical assistance, and, together with the
NASMHPD Research Institute, Inc., a partner organization,
apprises constituents of the latest in mental health
research in administration and services delivery. |
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National Center for Cultural Competence - The mission of the National Center for Cultural Competence
(NCCC) is to increase the capacity of health and mental
health programs to design implement, and evaluate
culturally and linguistically competent service delivery
systems. |
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National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice - The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
was established in July 2001 to assist the field in
developing improved policies and programs for youth with
mental health disorders in contact with the juvenile
justice system, based on the best available research and
practice. |
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National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare - The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) association of 1,300
behavioral healthcare organizations that provide treatment
and rehabilitation for mental illnesses and addictions
disorders to nearly six million adults, children and
families in communities across the country. |
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National Empowerment Center - "Recovery is real and this website is filled with
practical information that will help you recover if you
have been labeled with a mental illness" |
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National GAINS Center - The work of the National GAINS Center in the Justice
System and the Technical Assistance and Policy Analysis
(TAPA) Center for Jail Diversion are informed by the
National GAINS Center, which has operated since 1995 as a
national locus for the collection and dissemination of
information about effective mental health and substance
abuse services for people with co-occurring disorders in
contact with the justice system. |
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National Institute of Mental Health |
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National Mental Health Association |
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National Mental Health Association |
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National Strategy for Suicide Prevention - The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP)
represents the combined work of advocates, clinicians,
researchers and survivors around the nation. It lays out a
framework for action to prevent suicide and guides
development of an array of services and programs that must
be developed. It is designed to be a catalyst for social
change with the power to transform attitudes, policies,
and services. |
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NGA Center for Best practices - The NGA Center for Best Practices is the nation's only
dedicated consulting firm for governors and their key
policy staff. The Center's mission is to develop and
implement innovative solutions to public policy challenges. |
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NMHA (National Mental Health Association) |
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Office of Mental Health |
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OMH Project Legacy - The mission of Project Legacy is to establish the
infrastructure including administrative and service
delivery capability at all levels of the system to fully
realize the partnerships, principles and practices
essential to a system of care that embodies the values of
access, continuity, resilience and recovery.
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Open Minds - OPEN MINDS is a national behavioral health and social
service industry market research and management consulting
firm. Founded in 1987 and based in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, the 75+ associates of OPEN MINDS provide
executive education, information, market research, &
management consulting services. Our mission is to provide
behavioral health & social service payers, consumer
associations, & service providers, with the management
knowledge needed to improve their efficiency &
effectiveness in order to better serve consumers. |
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Recovery Institute |
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Research & Training Center for Family Support and Children' s MH - The Center is dedicated to promoting effective community-
based, culturally competent, family-centered services for
families and their children who are, or may be affected by
mental, emotional or behavioral disorders. This goal is
accomplished through collaborative research partnerships
with family members, service providers, policy makers, and
other concerned persons. |
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Resiliency In Action |
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SAMHSA |
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SAMHSA Model Programs |
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SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center |
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Standards for Assisted Treatment: (State by State Summary) - This chart captures the most essential information about
the laws for assisted treatment in each state. These are
the key elements of the state’s requirements for the
placement in treatment of a person who refuses treatment
because of the symptoms of mental illness.
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Technical Assistance Collaborative - TAC is a national non-profit organization that works to
achieve positive outcomes on behalf of people with
disabilities, people who are homeless, and people with
other special needs by providing state-of-the-art
information, capacity building, and technical expertise to
organizations and policymakers in the areas of mental
health, substance abuse, human services, and affordable
housing.
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The Research and Training Center for Children's Mental health - The Research and Training Center for Children’s Mental
Health works to strengthen the empirical foundation for
effective systems of care, and improve services for
children with serious emotional or behavioral disorders
and their families. Since 1984, we’ve addressed this
mission through an integrated set of research, training,
consultation, and dissemination activities. |
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The Road Home -
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Village Integrated Service Agency - The Village Integrated Services Agency is a comprehensive
program for people with serious mental illnesses (clients
are called members at the Village) The Village’s Designed
Care Approach is a Menu Driven approach. The Village
offers an array of options for members which supports
individuated services in all quality of life areas (i.e.
employment, residence, social, substance abuse, etc) Staff
focus on encouraging members’ free choice of any menu
option at any time. |
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Volunteers of America of Greater Baton Rouge -
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Volunteers of America of Greater New Orleans -
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Youth Suicide Prevention School Based Guide - Created by the University of South Florida |
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Youth Suicide Prevention School-Based Guide - Created by the University of South Florida |
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