HIGHLIGHTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Upcoming Training Opportunities

Listening Session on a Public Health Approach to Mental Health - Draft Transcript Available!   2008 National TA Conference Calls UPCOMING CALL: June 19 - 1:00 pm ET  Public Health Approach to Intervention: A New Framework for Strengthening Children's Mental Health and Well-Being Download Playback 2008 Georgetown University Training Institutes Mark Your Calendars for the 2008 Training Institutes! Plan to Join Us at Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center Nashville, Tennessee, July 16 - 20, 2008 Information & Registration   Family Centered Decision-Making in Child Welfare:  Mediation facilitates family and youth participation in child protection planning towards collaborative and improved outcomes.  Find out more and how to access Mediation Training for your community.

Entrenamiento Sobre Los Sistemas De Cuidado Esta Disponible Para La Comunidad Hispanohablante - Systems Of Care Training Is Now Available For Spanish Speaking Communities

Presentation and Training materials from the 2006 Georgetown University Training Institutes  are now available. The Training Institutes focused on service delivery approaches that are family driven, youth guided, and individualized and that represent evidenced-based or promising practices that achieve positive outcomes for children and their families. While the Institutes is over, valuable learning and training materials are now available, including Conference Bags, a CD with presentation materials from all institutes and workshops, and a CD with resource documents.

New TA Center Resources

Compendium of In-Service Training Resources This collection of resources provides information for states and communities about competency-based, in-service curricula and training materials being used by State Mental Health Agencies to increase the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (competencies) of professional and/or paraprofessional personnel from various disciplines and specialties who are working in children's mental health.   Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: An Evaluation Tool Kit   Child and Family Services Reviews 2001 - 2004: A Mental Health Analysis Education and Systems-of-Care Approaches: Solutions for Educators and School Mental Health Professionals 2006 Georgetown University Training Institutes: Special Forum Summaries  The Rural Web Portal: Healthy Children and Families: Helping Communities to Enhance Social and Emotional Outcomes for Children and Families in Rural and Frontier Areas  A new and valuable technical assistance resource for rural and frontier communities working to transform systems for children's behavioral health in rural and frontier areas. An outcome of the National Plan for Rural Behavioral Health, this activity is funded by the SAMHSA/Center for Mental Health Services and represents a collaboration across several technical assistance centers providing TA to children's grant programs initially those funded through SAMHSA/CMHS.  http://www.promoteprevent.org/rural

• Building Systems of Care: A Primer by Sheila Pires is now available on-line.
  

The Best Beginning: Partnerships Between Primary Health Care and Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for Young Children and Their Families Pediatricians are in a unique position to identify early childhood mental health concerns and family mental health and substance abuse risk factors.  This SAMHSA, funded, web-based resource features eight innovative medical home practices that integrate behavioral health screening for the whole family, facilitate referrals to community services, and offer follow-up care.  This resource describes how the practices use very different approaches to do it, fund it, and the lessons they learned.  A must read for practitioners who want to replicate an integrated primary care and behavioral health model.

• Promising Community Practices for Cultural & Linguistic Competence and Addressing Disparities
  
  
• What to Expect and When to Seek Help: Bright Futures Developmental Tools for Families and Providers
  The four developmental tools offer a framework for families and providers to begin a conversation together about how best to support healthy social and emotional development in children and teens. Tools are in both English and Spanish.
  

Technical Assistance Tool for Developing A Comprehensive Financing Plan to Support Effective Systems of Care This Self Assement and Planning Guide is a new tool to assist states, territories and communities to map current financing sources and plan financing strategies to support expanded services

• Issue Briefs - Transforming the Workforce in Children's Mental Health
  Three Issue Briefs explore challenges, strategies, and promising practices for growing and improving the workforce in children's mental health.
  

New Resources of Interest

• Primer Hands On ? Child Welfare, a comprehensive systems of care training curriculum for child welfare, is now available from the National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NRCOI) at www.nrcoi.org. The direct link is:  http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/systemofcare.htm.
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• New website with systems of care resources launched by SAMHSA
  The Child, Adolescent and Family Branch (CAFB), Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is Pleased to announce the launch of its new Web site.
  
• DEFICIT REDUCTION ACT OF 2005
  The Deficit Reduction Act 2005 (DRA) signed into law by the President on February 8, 2006, includes many critical changes to Medicaid rules affecting children and families and creates new options for state Medicaid programs.  Read more.

WELCOME TO THE NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH

Who We Are

The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health is located within the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development in Washington, D.C..  Since 1984, the Technical Assistance Center has been dedicated to working in partnership with families and many other leaders across the country to transform services for children and adolescents who have, or are at risk for, mental health problems and their families.  Our approach is guided by system of care values and principles.

What We Offer   

The National Technical Assistance Center offers a variety of activities to provide information on "what works" and to help transform mental health and substance abuse services delivery systems for children and their families.  These activities include a broad range of training and technical assistance opportunities for states, tribes, territories, and communities to assist in transforming service delivery systems for children with mental health needs and their families Our training and technical assistance addresses the transformation goals and recommendations in the report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, Achieving the Promise.    

Learn about training and technical assistance offered by the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health

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Funding

The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health is funded and supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Center for Mental Health Services, the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch, and the Special Programs Development Branch. Other funding sources include the federal Administration for Children and Families and The Annie E. Casey Foundation.