Network Coordinating Office
Stanford University School of Medicine’s Center for Dissemination and Implementation (CDI) houses the Network Coordinating Office which serves as the focal point and provides leadership, infrastructure, and support to the MHTTC Network.
Our Goals
- Establish a Network-wide approach, based on implementation science, to accelerate mental health evidence-based practice adoption and implementation.
- Increase opportunities for the Network to heighten the awareness, knowledge, and skills of the workforce.
- Develop strategic alliances for the Network among culturally diverse practitioners, researchers, policy makers, family members, and consumers of mental health services.
- Increase access to publicly available, free of charge, training and technical assistance to the mental health field.
Services We Offer
- Assist the Network in using implementation science based training and technical assistance strategies that can lead to a more significant impact on the provision of mental health services.
- Provide the Network with infrastructure supports that are coordinated across the three technology transfer center (TTC) networks.
- Lead the Network in workforce development activities including activities aimed at upgrading standards of professional practice for mental health professionals and developing strategies and materials to enhance recruitment and retention of mental health practitioners.
- Develop a comprehensive school based mental health curricula and national learning collaborative.
Our Collaborators
- Annapolis Coalition for Behavioral Health Workforce
Click here for their website. - Collaborative to Advance Health Services, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Click here for their website. - National Center for School Mental Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Click here for their website.
Our Advisory Board
You can view our list of advisory board members here.

MHTTC Network Coordinating Office
Center for Dissemination and Implementation
Division of Public Mental Health & Population Sciences
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine MC 5265
1070 Arastradero Road | Palo Alto, CA 94304
For more information, please contact us at: [email protected]
Staff Directory






Shashank Joshi, MD
Stanford Project Faculty

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD
Stanford Project Faculty