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Bureau of Justice Assistance, Visiting Fellow Award

SMHA Support For Mobile Crisis Teams Update April 2023

2022 Profiles SMHA Support For BH Call Centers April 2023

Financing BH Crisis Services Update April 2023

2022 Profiles SMHA Support For Less Than 24 Hour CRSFs April 2023

Transportation in Behavioral Health Crisis Services: 2022

SMHA Support for Mobile Crisis Teams, 2022

BH Crisis Technology And Outcomes Update April 2023

2022 Profiles SMHA The BH Crisis Continuum April 2023

SMHA Workforce Shortages Across the Crisis Continuum, 2022

Behavioral Health Crisis Services Technology and Metrics, 2022

SMHA Workforce Shortages, 2022

Financing Behavioral Health Crisis Services: 2022

SMHA Technology, 2022

SMHA Workforce Diversity, 2022

SMHA Peer Specialist Workforce, 2022

Providing Housing and Housing Supports to Individuals with Mental Illnesses, 2022

Mobile Crisis Teams (MCTs) are a critical component of the behavioral health crisis care continuum. MCTs are designed to travel to meet face-to-face with an individual experiencing a behavioral health crisis and have demonstrated effectiveness in helping

Use of Restrictive Interventions Among Youths With Serious Emotional Disturbances Treated in State Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitals

Justice Counts National Steering Committee and Project Partner

Persons Living with Dementia in the Criminal Legal System

An Evaluation of the Grand Response Access Network on Demand Model (GRAND Model): Evidence of Effective Outcomes

Use of Mobile Apps & Technology to Promote Behavioral Health and Wellness

Initiatives to Support Housing Services for Individuals with SMI and SED

Provision and Funding of Evidence-Based Services

Trends in SMHA Expenditures and Funding for Mental Health Services FY 2001 to 2019

State Mental Health Agency Use of Medicaid to Provide Mental Health Services

Assessing Violence Risk Using Standardized Measures and their Application to Legal "Dangerousness"

Criminal Justice Diversion Programs For justice-involved Adults With Mental Illnesses, November 2021

Competency Restoration Use Of State Hospitals, Community Based, And Jail Based Approaches, November 2021

Behavioral Health Call Centers and 988 Implementation

SMHA Responsibilities For Forensic Mental Health Services, November 2021

Evaluation of Competency to Stand Trial Use of State Hospitals, Community-based, and Jail-based Approaches, November 2021

SMHA Organization and Structure in State Government, September 2021

SMHA Crisis Services, September 2021

Organization And Funding Of Community Mental Health Services, September 2021

Use Of State Psychiatric Hospitals, September 2021

Reducing Revocations Challenge: Pulaski County Action Research Team Findings Report

A Quantitative Exploration of the Health, Treatment, and Reentry Needs on Aging Veterans in Prison

Systematic Review and Inventory of Evidence-based Programs and Practices for Justice Involved Adults with Serious Mental Illness, Across the Sequential Intercept Model

Impact of COVID-19 on State Mental Health Services

Creating Quality, May 2020, devoted to sharing the quality improvement initiatives at several psychiatric facilities.

The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Inform Behavioral Health Care

Functionality and Usability of Various Electronic Health Record Systems: State Psychiatric Hospitals and Systems, October 2019.

BRIEF REPORT: Participant Perspectives on Change

BRIEF REPORT: Program Fidelity & Participant Outcomes

BRIEF REPORT: State Involvement in CSC Programs

BRIEF REPORT: Financing and Funding for CSC Programs

BRIEF REPORT: Staff Teams in CSC Programs

BRIEF REPORT: Client Transitions and Discharges

BRIEF REPORT: Peer Support in CSC Programs

BRIEF REPORT: Change in Client Outcomes Over Time

BRIEF REPORT: National Overview of CSC Programs

Implementation Status of Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems in State Psychiatric Hospitals

Creating Quality, New Journal Issue from NRI Focused on Electronic Health Records

Developing a Program for Criminal Justice Involved Adults with I/DD and Co-existing Behavioral Health Disorders

Alternatives to Inpatient Competency Restoration Programs: Community-Based Competency Restoration Programs

Alternatives to Inpatient Competency Restoration Programs: Jail-Based Competency Restoration Programs

Predictors of 30-day Postdischarge Readmission to a Multistate National Sample of State Psychiatric Hospitals

FY2018 Snapshot of State Plans for Using the Community Mental Health Block Grant (MHBG) Ten Percent Set-Aside to Address First Episode Psychosis

TA Coalition Assessment Working Paper DRAFT: Speaking Different Languages- Breaking Through the Differences in the Perspectives of Criminal Justice and Mental Health Stakeholders on Competency to Stand Trial Services: Part 1

TA Coalition Assessment Working Paper DRAFT: Experiences and Lessons Learned in States with On-Line Databases (Registries) of Available Mental Health Crisis, Psychiatric Inpatient, and Community Residential Placements

Antipsychotic Medication Prescribing Practices: Youth versus Adults

Elevating Patient and Staff Safety in State Psychiatric Hospitals

NRI Psychiatric Bed Registries Report

Trends in Psychiatric Inpatient Capacity, United States and Each State, 1970 to 2014

Forensic Patients in State Psychiatric Hospitals: '99-'16

Funding and Characteristics of Single State Agencies for Substance Abuse Services and State Mental Health Agencies, 2015

Third Party Evaluation of Texas Behavioral Health Performance Measures, Contract Processes, and Payment Mechanisms

2017 Snapshot of State Plans for Using the Community Mental Health Block Grant Ten Percent Set-Aside to Address First Episode Psychosis

Brochure: Right from the Start

ISSUE BRIEF: Measuring the Duration of Untreated Psychosis within First Episode Psychosis Coordinated Specialty Care

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

FACT SHEET: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp)

ISSUE BRIEF: Workforce Development In Coordinated Specialty Care Programs

ISSUE BRIEF: Understanding and Addressing the Stigma Experienced by People with First Episode Psychosis

ISSUE BRIEF: Treating Affective Psychosis and Substance Use Disorders Within Coordinated Specialty Care

ISSUE BRIEF: Substance-Induced Psychosis in First Episode Programming

Information Brief: Outreach for First Episode Psychosis

Information Brief: Use of Medicaid to Finance Coordinated Specialty Care Services for First Episode Psychosis

Colorado Behavioral Health Funding Study

FY 2015 State Mental Health Revenue and Expenditure Study Results

FY2016/17 Snapshot of State Plans for Using the Community Mental Health Block Grant (MHBG) Ten Percent Set-Aside for Early Intervention Programs

Innovative Tech for Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health

State Behavioral Health Authorities’ Use of Performance Measurement Systems

Antipsychotic Medication Prescribing Practices Among Adult Patients Discharged From State Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitals

Distance Education Course: A Family Primer on Psychosis

Policy Brief: Coordinated Specialty Care— First Episode Psychosis Programs: Why specialty early intervention programs are a smart investment

Back to School: Toolkits to Support the Full Inclusion of Students with Early Psychosis in Higher Education

Back to School: Toolkits to Support the Full Inclusion of Students with Early Psychosis in Higher Education (Administration Version)

ISSUE BRIEF: Age and Developmental Considerations in Early Psychosis

FACT SHEET: Supporting Student Success in Higher Education Beyond the Clinic: The Opportunity for Early Intervention Programs

ISSUE BRIEF: What Comes After Early Intervention? Step-Down, Discharge and Continuity of Care in Early Intervention in Psychosis Programs for First Episode Psychosis

Information Guide: Use of Performance Measures in Early Intervention Programs

Smoking Ban Implementation in Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitals

An Inventory & Environmental Scan of Evidence-Based Practices for Treating Persons in Early Stages of Serious Mental Disorders (1)

GUIDANCE MANUAL: Peer Involvement and Leadership in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services: From Planning to Peer Support and Evaluation

Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Systems

BH and CJS: New Info Exchange Opportunities

Tracking the History of State Psychiatric Hospital Closures

Colorado DHS Behavioral Health Needs Analysis

Civil Bed Availability at the CMHI and Projected Need, 2015-2024

Evidence-Based Practices: Treating Early Stages of Serious Mental Disorders

Health and Substance Use Comorbidity among Inpatient Adolescents

ISSUE BRIEF: Supported Education for Persons Experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis

FACT SHEET: Building Upon Existing Programs and Services to Meet the Needs of Persons Experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis

Examining patient’s perceptions of care to improve psychiatric inpatient hospitals

Case Studies of Three Policy Areas and Early State Innovators:

National Public Rates

Characteristics of State-operated or Supported Psychiatric Hospital Inpatient Care

Characteristics of SSA's for Substance Abuse Services and SMHAs

Psychometric Evaluation of a Psychiatric Care Inpatient Customer Survey

History of HBIPS BHPMS

Fiscal Year 2010 Revenues and Expenditure Study Results

Smoking Policies and Practices Report

The Impact of the State Fiscal Crisis on State Mental Health Systems

Fiscal Year 2009 State Mental Health Revenue and Expenditure Study Results

Effects of adopting a smoke-free policy in state psychiatric hospitals

Funding and Characteristics of State Mental Health Agencies, 2007