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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.
Doors to Wellbeing (D2W), a Program of the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery, is dedicated to peer-led initiatives and training supporting the peer support workforce.
PENTAC works with the other TA Centers to promote evidence-based care for adults with serious mental illnesses. We recognize the value of those with lived experience as an integral component of the treatment system. Our work is infused with peer values and supported by consultants who are subject matter experts.
The Center is supported by SAMHSA to operate one of its five national technical assistance centers; providing technical assistance, training, and resources that facilitate the restructuring of the mental health system through effective consumer directed approaches for adults with serious mental illnesses across the country.
As a youth-run peer organization, YMN honors lived experience and recognizes the value of both traditional and non-traditional supports. We serve peers across the lifespan, their families, and providers of all ages, to grow the youth peer movement across the United States.
The National Empowerment Center Technical Assistance Center (NEC TAC) is a federally-funded consumer/survivor-run national technical assistance and resource center fostering recovery, self-determination, and community inclusion. We serve mental health consumer/survivors, peer-run service and advocacy organizations, family members, providers, and decision-makers.
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.
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.
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.
Supports the MFP program (grants to organizations for fellowship administration in the fields of marriage and family therapy, nursing, professional counseling, psychiatry, psychology, social work, addiction treatment, and addiction medicine), enhances the careers of the MFP Fellows, and documents MFP program impacts.
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.
SAMHSA’s Serious Mental Illness Training and Technical Assistance Center (SMI TTAC) provides essential tools, training, and resources to enhance the effectiveness of mental health care and recovery services, for individuals with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and first episode psychosis (FEP).
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.
Provides specialized T/TA and resources to reduce the high prevalence of commercial tobacco use by persons with mental and/or substance use disorders.
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.
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.
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.
Expands recovery support services with a focus on ensuring all populations have greater access to these critical supports.