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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.
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, 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.
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.
Provides educational resources and TA across the continuum of prevention, as well as services for risks related to substance use, 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.
Builds national capacity for preventing suicide by providing T/TA and resources to assist states, tribes, organizations, and individuals to develop suicide prevention strategies (including programs, interventions, and policies) that advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, with the overall goal of reducing suicides and suicidal behaviors in the nation.
Provides T/TA for federally recognized tribes and tribal organizations, SAMHSA tribal grantees, and selected American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) communities and tribes to develop and implement a Tribal Action Plan. Helps AIAN communities build local capacity around substance use disorders, suicide prevention, and mental health using a culturally relevant, evidence-based, holistic approach.
Helps states and territories develop effective, responsive behavioral health systems for SMVF through public/private collaboration among federal, state/territorial, and local agencies. Helps states and territories establish operational interagency teams that develop strategic plans to improve behavioral health systems for SMVF via Policy Academies and Implementation and Leadership Academies.
Supports national and regional activities focused on the delivery of effective substance use disorder treatment and recovery support services by preparing tools for the specialized behavioral health and primary care workforce and providing TA to provider organizations to improve their processes and practices.
Provides national T/TA to child welfare, dependency court, and substance use treatment professionals to improve the safety, stability and recovery outcomes for children, parents, and families affected by substance use and co-occurring mental disorders and child abuse or neglect.
Enhances the capacity of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, and substance use disorder (SUD) counseling professionals to identify and treat individuals using Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved medications for alcohol use disorder (MAUD).
Trains health professionals to provide effective, evidence-based, medication treatments to patients with opioid use disorder in primary care, psychiatric care, substance use disorder treatment, and pain management settings.
Coordinates SAMHSA and Administration for Community Living T/TA initiatives, facilitates dissemination of substantive information to the 57 state protection and advocacy systems, provides each federal agency with full representation opportunities for adequate discussions and consideration of its interest and concerns, and enhances each agency’s ability to monitor emergent issues and problems in the field.