• What is Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI)?

• What is a Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle?

• What are measures of organizational readiness and why use them?

• We have so many service areas that need improvement, where should we start?

• What is Implementation Science?

• What is Organizational Readiness for Change?

• We want to make adaptions to an evidence-based practice, is that acceptable?

• What is social skills training?

• Education in people with serious mental illness

• Employment of people with serious mental illness

• How can psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians help people with serious mental illnesses obtain high quality medical care?

• What are some strategies and resources for addressing the first episode of a psychotic illnesses?

• What are the best ways to help engage people with serious mental illness in mental health care?

• What are some strategies for addressing housing for patients with serious mental illness?

• How do I find a psychiatrist or a mental health treatment facility?

• Is there help available to pay for medications to treat mental illness?

• What are the next steps after getting a diagnosis of a mental illness?

• Is there an easy to use screening tool for anxiety levels that is clinically meaningful?

• Prevalence of serious mental illness

• What is a capacity evaluation? 

• How do I find a group home or other type of residential treatment setting?

• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Evidence-Based Practices (EBT) KIT

• Transitioning Clients from Coordinated Specialty Care: A Guide for Clinicians

• Medical Directors’ Recommendations on Trauma-informed Care for Persons with Serious Mental Illness

• Why is it common for people with serious mental illness to need more than one medication?

• Windows of Opportunity in Early Psychosis Care: Navigating Cultural Dilemmas

• Educating Communities to Identify and Engage Youth in the Early Phases of an Initial Psychosis: A Manual for Specialty Programs

• Fact Sheet: Supporting Student Success in Higher Education Beyond the Clinic

• Issue Brief: What Comes After Early Intervention

• Information Brief: Outreach for First Episode Psychosis

• Issue Brief: Workforce Development in Coordinated Specialty Care Programs

• Guidance Manual: Peer Involvement and Leadership in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services: From Planning to Peer Support and Evaluation

• Fact Sheet: Building upon Existing Programs and Services to Meet the Needs of Persons with First Episode Psychosis

• Fact Sheet: Implementation of Coordinated Specialty Services for First Episode Psychosis in Rural and Frontier Communities

• Information Guide: Steps and Decision Points in Starting an Early Psychosis Program

• Transition between inpatient mental health settings and community or care home settings

• Issue Brief: Supported Education for Persons Experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis

• Issue Brief: Treating Affective Psychosis and Substance Use Disorders Within Coordinated Specialty Care

• Serious Mental Illness and Treatment Prevalence

• What are key elements that lead to success in quality improvement efforts?

• How can leadership support quality improvement efforts?

• Medication Matters: Causes and Solutions to Medical Non-Adherence

• Jumpstarting Community Living and Participation

• Your College Community: How People with Psychiatric Disabilities Can Make the Most of Their College Experience

• Education Fact Sheet: Providers

• Recommendations for Physical Activity: A Supportive interventionist guide

• Supporting Physical Activity: A Guide for Peer Support Specialists

• Beginning an Exercise Program: Fact Sheet for Providers

• Addressing the Intimacy Interests of People with Mental Health Conditions: Acknowledging Consumer Desires, Provider Discomforts, and System Denial

• A Guide to Creating Self Directed Care Programming

• Helping People with Mental Health Conditions Prepare for Disasters

• Issue Brief: Understanding and Addressing the Stigma Experienced by People with First Episode Psychosis

• Wellness Activity Lessons

• Long-Term Effects of Evidence-Based Supported Employment on Earnings and on SSI and SSDI Participation Among Individuals With Psychiatric Disabilities

• Fact Sheet: Career Development

• Supported Employment: Keys to a Successful Facility

• Barriers to Employment for those with Severe Mental Illnesses

• There’s More to Young Adult Unemployment Than Mental Health: What Else to Look For

• Blueprint for Building Inter-Agency Collaboration through Strategic Planning: Supporting the Employment of Youth & Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions

• Making it Work: Vocational Peer Mentors for Emerging Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions (2014)

• TIP 55: Behavioral Health Services for People Who Are Homeless

• TIP 57: Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services

• A Practical Guide for People with Mental Health Conditions Who Want to Work

• Conversations about Intimacy and Sexuality: A Training Toolkit Using Motivational Interviewing (MI)

• Illness Management and Recovery Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) Kit

• Management Strategies To Reduce Psychiatric Readmissions

• Permanent Supportive Housing Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) Kit

• Strategies To De-escalate Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients

• Effectively Employing Young Adult Peer Providers: A Toolkit

• Helping Behavioral Health Consumers with Parenting/Child Custody Issues – Training Manual

• Promoting Wellness for People in Mental Health Recovery: A Step by Step Guide to Planning and Conducting a Success Health Fair

• A Randomized Controlled Trial of Effects of Wellness Recovery Action Planningon Depression, Anxiety, and Recovery

• Whole Health Action Management (WHAM) Peer Support Training

• Are there guidelines, standards, or best practices for evaluation and treatment of agitation?

• Promise for the Future: How Federal Programs Can Improve Career Outcomes For Youth & Young Adults With Serious Mental Health Conditions

• Wraparound for Older Youth and Young Adults

• Free, Brief, and Validated: Standardized Instruments for Low-Resource Mental Health Settings

• Achieving Cross-System Collaboration to Support Young People in the Transition Years: A Tip Sheet for Service Providers

• Understanding Neurobiology of Psychological Trauma: Tips for Working with Transition-age Youth

• Transition Mental Health Services: Provider Core Competencies

• Housing and Transition: Meeting the Needs of Young Adults with Mental Health Conditions

• A Primer on the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process

• Behavioral Health Homes for People with Mental Health & Substance Use Conditions: The Core Clinical Features

• Reducing Criminal Recidivism for Justice-Involved Persons with Mental Illness: Risk/Needs/Responsivity and Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions

• Canadian Practice Guidelines for Comprehensive Community Treatment for Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

• Supported Education Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Kit

• Supportive Housing Guidelines- NYS Office of Mental Health

• Housing First for People With Severe Mental Illness Who Are Homeless: A Review of the Research and Findings From the At Home–Chez soi Demonstration Project

• Fact Sheet: Housing First

• Supported Employment for People with Severe Mental Illness: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the International Evidence

• Going Home: The Role of State Mental Health Authorities to Prevent and End Homelessness Among Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

• TA Coalition Assessment Working Paper: A Comprehensive Crisis System: Ending Unnecessary Emergency Room Admissions and Jail Bookings Associated with Mental Illness

• The Role of Permanent Supportive Housing in Determining Psychiatric Inpatient Bed Capacity

• Weaving a Community Safety Net to Prevent Older Adult Suicide

• Municipal Courts: An Effective Tool for Diverting People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders from the Criminal Justice System

• Supportive Housing Quality Toolkit

• TA Coalition Working Papers: Beyond Beds: The Vital Role of a Full Continuum of Psychiatric Care

• Achieving Recovery and Attaining Full Employment through the Evidence-Based IPS Supported Employment Approach

• Supported Employment: The Evidence

• Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach

• Our population is very different than those typically enrolled in studies that form the evidence-base for most practices in SMI and so how are we to choose the best practices to be used?

• The Individual Placement and Supports (IPS) Library

• Housing First Overview

• Serious Mental Illness and Prolonged Youth Homelessness

• Are there any circumstances under which an individual’s Psychiatric Advance Directive (PAD), cannot or should not be followed?

• First Episode Psychosis Resources: Focus on Effective Treatment Options

• Working with Clients Experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis: Considerations for Prescribers

• Providing Coordinated Specialty Care Services for First Episode Psychosis in Rural and Frontier Settings

• Team-based Treatment for First Episode Psychosis is Cost Effective: Implications for Policy and Practice

• Financing the Start-Up and Operation of First Episode Psychosis Programs

• Adapting your Practice: General Recommendations for the Care of Homeless Patients

• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Implementation Guides

• Building The Mental Health Workforce Capacity Needed To Treat Adults With Serious Mental Illnesses

• Best Practices in Continuing Care after Early Intervention for Psychosis

• TA Coalition Webinar: Best Practices for Supported Employment

• What are the best practices for transitioning an individual who had a first episode of psychosis to the next phase of care following the completion of a Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) program?

• Experiences and Lessons Learned in States with On-Line Databases (Registries) of Available Mental Health Crisis, Psychiatric Inpatient, and Community Residential Placements

• Epidemiology of First Episode Psychosis in Large Integrated Healthcare Systems

• Issues in Accurate Diagnosis for Programs Serving Individuals with First Episode Psychosis

• Issues and Considerations Associated with Measuring the Duration of Untreated Psychosis (DUP) in First Episode Psychosis Programs

• King County Health and Human Services Transformation: The Familiar Faces Initiative

• Data-Driven Justice Playbook: How to Develop a System of Diversion

• Child and Adolescent Level of Care Utilization System (CALOCUS)

• Level of Care Utilization System (LOCUS) for Psychiatric and Addiction Services

• Supporting Students Experiencing Early Psychosis in Middle School and High School

• Supported Education as a Component of Coordinated Specialty Care for Persons with First Episode Psychosis

• Webinar: Beyond Beds: The Vital Role of a Full Continuum of Psychiatric Care

• TA Coalition Webinar: Considerations for Placement in Recovery Housing for Individuals Living with Severe Mental Illness

• Practical Approaches to Measuring Fidelity in Coordinated Specialty Care for First Episode Psychosis

• Promoting Meaningful Family Involvement in Coordinated Specialty Care Programming for Persons with First Episode of Psychosis

• NASMHPD’s webinar on Components of Coordinated Specialty Care for First Episode Psychosis: Guidance Related to the 5% Set-Aside in the Mental Health Block Grant

• TA Coalition Webinar: Beating the Clock: Reducing the Duration of Untreated Psychosis

• The supported employment approach seems to be an effective way to help individuals with serious mental illness get a job and earn money. However, even with the help of supported employment some individuals might not be ready for the demands of a job. Could getting a volunteer job be a good way for such individuals to get started?

• The supported employment approach seems to be an effective way to help individuals with serious mental illness get a job and earn money. Yet, concerns about losing one’s financial benefits are often expressed by individuals seeking employment assistance. How can those concerns be effectively addressed to help individuals engage with supported employment?

• Canadian Housing First Toolkit

• How does one find a Supported Employment Program (SEP) or a Supported Employment Counselor (SEC)?

• Does the supported employment approach really help people find jobs?

• What are the current regulations and rules around telemental health in my state?

• What components of Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) programs make this approach especially useful as a treatment for First Episode Psychosis (FEP)?

• Payment Strategies for Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC)

• What are key psychosocial treatment programs for SMI individuals and how can clinicians learn about adapting them for an American Indian population?

• What should mental health providers know about coronavirus (COVID-19)?

• Use and Avoidance of Seclusion and Restraint: Consensus Statement of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry Project BETA Seclusion and Restraint Workgroup

• Supported Employment Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) KIT

• Compensatory cognitive remediation approaches have been shown to help individuals with SMI improve cognitive functioning, so how can we increase this capacity in our clinical work force?

• What are the reasons for using the compensatory approach to cognitive remediation for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI)?

• How does the restorative approach work to improve cognitive functioning in individuals with SMI?

• What trends in psychiatric symptom increases have been observed by frontline clinicians working with individuals who have SMI during the COVID-19 crisis, and how are they being addressed?

• What type of clinical experience is needed for administering the Cognitive Assessment Interview, a tool for assessing cognitive functioning in individuals with SMI?

• Are there any symptom severity restrictions or level of recovery requirements for individuals with SMI to be able to participate in cognitive remediation training programs?

• Can you recommend a brief assessment tool that can be administered easily, but is valid for assessing neurocognitive functioning in individuals with SMI?

• What is the potential impact of childhood trauma on adult mental and physical health?

• What does it mean to be trauma-informed?

• Financing Coordinated Specialty Care for First Episode Psychosis: A Clinician/Advocate’s Guide

• Key Elements of Recovery from Serious Mental Illnesses and Recovery Oriented Services

• Association of Housing First Implementation and Key Outcomes Among Homeless Persons With Problematic Substance Use

• Housing First and harm reduction: a rapid review and document analysis of the US and Canadian open-access literature

• The effects of housing stability on service use among homeless adults with mental illness in a randomized controlled trial of housing first

• Navigating Risk Environments in Permanent Supportive Housing for Formerly Homeless Adults

• Housing First Improves Adherence to Antipsychotic Medication Among Formerly Homeless Adults With Schizophrenia: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Is housing first effective for people with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use issues?

• What is Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) for people with severe mental illness?

• What should be considered in the care of homeless individuals with mental health issues?

• How can you be culturally responsive in a trauma-informed approach?

• What are some recommendations to address the behavioral healthcare workforce needs?

• How can we create safety in the treatment experience?

• Why is it important to offer choices and options to the individuals I am working with? How can I incorporate more choice in my practice?

• Is it harmful to have too high of an expectation for recovery?

• Reopening Your Mental Health Practice: A Checklist to Help You Prepare for In-Person Office Visits

• Improving Behavioral Health Services for Individuals with SMI in Rural and Remote Communities

• Is ECT an effective treatment for SMI?

• Is measurement-based care (MBC) effective for SMI?

• What Are Ways to Enhance Client Engagement in the Treatment Process?

• 988 Implementation Guidance Playbooks

• Tobacco-Free Recovery Toolkit

• Can people who have serious mental illness obtain competitive employment?

• Can people who have serious mental illness complete education?

• How to prepare for aftercare services post inpatient hospital discharge?

• HIPAA Privacy Rule and Sharing Information Related to Mental Health

• Identity and Mental Health: Navigating Care as a Gender Diverse Individual (Video)

• Toward a National Standard for Service Intensity Assessment and Planning for Mental Health Care

• Personal Perspectives on Care and Recovery (The Medical Mind Podcast)