Training & Technical Assistance
The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health offers a broad range of training and technical assistance opportunities for states, tribes, territories, communities and family organizations to assist in transforming and improving service delivery systems for children with mental health needs and their families. Our training and technical assistance focus on the transformation goals and recommendations in the report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, Achieving the Promise. Our approach to technical assistance includes three levels: universal, targeted and intensive. Strategies for strengthening family and youth partnerships and cultural and linguistic competence are infused across all three levels.
Universal level
This approach is our primary strategy for reaching a wide audience with a broad range of information on what works. This technical assistance is available to anyone who wishes to participate and includes activities such as: the National Training Institutes, a series of National TA Conference Calls, policy briefs, resource guides, and research studies (see Products and Publications).
Targeted level
These activities have predetermined criteria for participation and are more in-depth, focused interactions with groups of stakeholders. They maximize the use of new knowledge in policy and practice, and include activities such as Policy Academies, Leadership Academies, Primer Hands On training, coalitions, and task forces.
Intensive level
At this level, Technical Assistance Center staff are involved in an ongoing relationship with a small number of specific states, tribes, territories, communities or family organizations to assist in transforming and improving the mental health service delivery system for children and their families in those sites. Intensive technical assistance includes events and/or consultation that occur over a period of time and can occur on-site or via telephone. When a specific technical assistance request requires three or more days of staff time, it is considered intensive. Intensive technical assistance is designed for sites that meet, or are attempting to meet, the following criteria:
- The site is actively engaged in systems transformation.
- The technical assistance will have a significant impact on transforming service delivery at the policy and practice levels.
- New knowledge will be gained that can be shared with a wider field.
- The request fits with the National Technical Assistance Center's areas of expertise and with outcome and performance indicators required of the Center.
Intensive technical assistance requests can be initatied via phone (202/687-5000), e-mail at childrensmh@georgetown.edu), or by contacting an individual staff member (see below).
State Infrastructure Grants and Technical Assistance
The National Technical Assistance Center also is charged with coordinating technical assistance on mental health issues for seven states that were awarded State Infrastructure Grants (SIG) by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in October 2004.
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Contact Us About Technical Assistance
To inquire about any of the training and technical assistance described above, to explore other ways the Technical Assistance Center might assist you, or to request information about any content area on our website:
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