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SAMHSA-funded training and technical assistance centers offer free support to those working in the field on topics across the behavioral health spectrum. This includes assistance for states, tribes, non-profits, communities, health care professionals, and behavioral health specialties including licensed clinicians and peer support specialists.
Training and technical assistance serves:
National audiences through webinars, online learning modules, and written resources
Specific groups through topic-based virtual learning collaboratives, communities of practice, or short-term training
Communities, states, tribes, and systems through intensive individualized technical assistance
The CMHIS builds the expertise of Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) grantees and other organizations that oversee or directly provide mental health services through utilizing science-based methods to implement, disseminate, and sustain services. The CMHIS provides national training and resources, as well as localized targeted and intensive technical assistance.
SAMHSA’s ED-CoE aims to develop and disseminate training and technical assistance (TTA) for healthcare professionals and greater eating disorder communities on prevention, treatment, and awareness. SAMHSA’s ED-CoE equips healthcare professionals and the public with the tools and resources to identify, treat, and support people with eating disorders.
Promotes national uptake of the CCBHC model and provides CCBHC-related TA to states to facilitate knowledge, capacity, and quality improvement for statewide CCBHC development, implementation, and advancement.
Develops and disseminates T/TA addressing opioid and stimulant use in rural communities. ROTA-R teams identify model programs, ensure provision of high-quality training, and develop and update materials related to prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery for opioid and/or stimulant use disorders. The ROTA-R program is comprised of 10 Regional Centers, 1 located in each of the 10 HHS regions.
7 Generations advances behavioral health equity of the AIAN population by (1) developing and disseminating culturally informed, evidence-based behavioral health information and (2) providing T/TA to address behavioral health disparities in AIAN communities including access to health services, funding, and resources; quality and quantity of services; treatment outcomes; and health education and prevention.
Helps states, U.S. territories, tribes, and local entities deliver an effective disaster response that centers mental health and substance use concerns. DTAC supports SAMHSA with toolkit resources and data reporting for the FEMA-funded Crisis Counseling Training & Assistance Program.
Provides T/TA to SAMHSA CCBHC-E grantees to facilitate (1) implementation and adherence to the CCBHC model, (2) use of evidence-based practices, and (3) sustainability of the CCBHC to improve access to coordinated, quality care.
Develops and disseminates information, guidance, and training on the impact of children and youth’s social media use (risks and benefits), especially the potential risks social media platforms pose to their mental health; and the clinical and societal interventions that could be used to address these risks.
Fosters recovery-oriented, early intervention programming for individuals who experience early serious mental illness. It provides support for individuals, families, providers, and community partners.
Provides T/TA on evidence-based and best practices in health promotion, prevention, treatment, and recovery from mental health and substance use disorders; and how to expand the behavioral health workforce for Hispanic and Latino communities.
Advances positive partnerships between families and providers to promote stronger and more sustainable outcomes for families and their children across the lifespan by supporting caregivers of children who experience serious mental illness and/or substance use disorder.
Supports information sharing, training, and technical assistance towards the goal of promoting behavioral health equity via a network of community-based organizations focused on the mental health and substance use issues of diverse racial and ethnic communities.
Supports focused resource development and dissemination, T/TA, and workforce development to staff in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-certified nursing facilities who serve individuals with Serious Mental Illness, Serious Emotional Disturbance, Substance Use Disorder, or Co-occurring Disorder.
Engages, empowers, and educates health care providers and community-based organizations for equity in behavioral health for older adults and their families.
Provides educational resources and TA across the continuum of prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery to reduce the impacts of opioid and stimulant misuse across the country and the developmental lifespan. Promotes trauma-informed, culturally-relevant, and evidence-based services to SOR/TOR recipients, health care providers, states, Tribes, and community-based organizations.
Provides T/TA and educational resources for healthcare practitioners, families, individuals, states, and communities on various privacy statutes and regulations as they relate to behavioral health data on HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, and other behavioral health privacy topics.
The Crisis Systems Response Training and Technical Assistance Center (CSR-TTAC) provides support to states, territories, tribal organizations, and community partners across the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline network and behavioral health crisis continuum of care. The goal of the CSR-TTAC is to support a crisis care system that is integrated, sustainable, equitable, and aligned around evidence-based and evidenced-informed practices.
Advances bi-directional and promotes full integration of primary physical and behavioral health care by providing high quality, evidence-informed T/TA to a national audience, including health systems, health care providers, members of the public, and recipients of Promoting the Integration of Primary and Behavioral Health Care grants, with a specific focus on the Collaborative Care Model.
Increases access to, and effectiveness of, evidence-based mental health services for young people and their families, supports Children’s Mental Health Initiative grantees, and provides T/TA and resources to providers, organizations, and agencies from across the system of care.
Improves implementation and delivery of effective substance use prevention interventions and provides T/TA services to the substance misuse prevention field, which includes prevention practitioners and the public.
Expands community services for adults who are in the criminal justice system and experiencing a mental and/or substance use disorder. Provides information and skills training to help individuals, organizations, and states implement effective, integrated programming.
Develops and maintains the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (the Network), a collaborative network structure, supports resource and policy development and dissemination, and coordinates the Network’s national child trauma education and training efforts.
Increases access to Social Security Administration (SSA) disability benefits for eligible adults and children who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, medical impairment, and/or a co-occurring substance use disorder.
Expands the availability of training in evidence-based housing and treatment models focused on adults, children, and families who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders.