Products and Resources Catalog

The fact sheet provides a brief overview of the peer support services and credentialing process available in Alabama.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the peer support services and credentialing available in Kentucky.

Download the flyer for the 2019 School Mental Health Learning Collaborative, led by the Mid-America Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) and the National Center for School Mental Health. This initiative brought together state and district leaders across Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas to attend live webinars built around the National School Mental Health Curriculum. Participants exchanged resources, tools, templates and other materials within the Learning Collaborative to promote shared learning. Now, you can follow along and learn, too! Visit http://bit.ly/SMHCollaborative to watch the virtual learning sessions.

The Pacific Southwest MHTTC School Mental Health Monthly shares resources, events, and insights to support school leadership, educators, and staff throughout HHS Region 9.

The Pacific Southwest MHTTC Monthly Bulletin provides resources, events, and news that are relevant to the diverse mental health workforce in HHS Region 9. Each Monthly Bulletin includes a spotlight section on youth and young adult mental health, our national area of focus.

Recording of the webinar titled Shared Decision Making as a Tool for Effective Engagement, originally held on February 26, 2020.   Slide Presentation

Recording of the webinar titled "Dying to Ask for Help: Suicide Trends and Treatment Disparities Among U.S. Adolescents," originally held on March 3, 2020.   Download the slides

Find our February/March 2020 newsletter here. In this issue, we announce that we will receive a third year of funding, provide resources for support and responding to a global pandemic, and share updates about the Annual Northwest PBIS Network Conference and 5th Annual Idaho Positive Behavior Network Conference.  Sign up for our School Mental Health Newsletter! Want more information and school mental health resources? Visit the Northwest MHTTC's School Mental Health page and sign up for our newsletter for regular updates about events, trainings, and resources available to the Northwest region.

The Northwest MHTTC invites you to read this special edition of our newsletter from March 2020, which features resources from SAMHSA's Disaster Technical Assistance Center and King County public health.

On March 12th, Larry Davidson, NE-MHTTC director, led the fourth and final session of the webinar series that discussed the principles of recovery-oriented systems of care. In this session, he addressed the importance of community inclusion in the mental health treatment and recovery process of patients. 

Disparities in mental health and mental healthcare have been a persistent and unremitting issue despite concerted efforts on multiple fronts to address the problem. The enduring nature of these problematic differences compels us to evaluate factors that led to our present state, and consider new evidence and new strategies to reduce and eliminate mental health disparities. This webinar will reframe the issue via a journey from cultural competence to structural competence (through cultural humility), address new trends in research in the field, and offer innovative solutions that providers and policymakers can adopt to more effectively address mental health disparities and inequities going forward. By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to: To consider the role of disparities and inequities in mental health care and outcomes To understand the difference between cultural and structural competence To consider your role in addressing inequities in mental health care

Recovery from SMI has been studied and documented by researchers, practitioners, and individuals with lived experience around the world and across time. Recovery is real. Recovery can be supported by practices and services that encourage participant engagement, community inclusion, valued social roles, and overall wellness. This webinar series will introduce you to recovery from SMI and many of the evidence-based and promising practices that support recovery. This session focuses on illness management and recovery.   This webinar covers the following objectives: Learn what IMR is and its relation to recovery Become familiar with IMR contents and core values Identify goal-setting strategies Review strategies for IMR clinicians Motivational, educational, cognitive-behavioral   View session recording Illness Management and Recovery SAMHSA Toolkit  

Psychosocial Impacts of Disasters: Assisting Community Leaders (with annotations for pandemics) This recording and accompanying slide set presentation is a resource to assist community leaders, mental health, and health care providers in responding to the psychosocial impacts created by disasters. This presentation includes additional notations for adapting and responding to pandemics and the unique mental health challenges presented by this type of disaster. Dr. Andrew J. McLean, MD, MPH, provides a review of best practices for responding to the psychosocial effects of disasters. In 2011, Dr. McLean received the American Psychiatric Association Bruno Lima Award for Outstanding Contributions to Disaster Psychiatry and brings this notable experience to the session. Recording Slide deck   Key Learning Objectives Understand the phases of disaster and how it pertains to mental health. Review the importance of risk communication and its ability to mitigate mental health problems during disaster. Review protective and risk factors of individuals and communities in the phases of disaster.   Trainer Information Dr. Andrew J. McLean, MD, MPH is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He also serves as a technical trainer for the Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center.  

The National American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Technology Transfer Center would like to share with you Volume 1, Issue 3 of our newsletter, Mental Health in our Native American Communities for Spring 2020. This issue is entitled, "Suicide, Trauma, and Finding a Way to Heal." Please take a few moments to explore this issue.

On March 11th, we held an online discussion session led by Reid Plimpton, MPH and Terry Rabinowitz, MD, DDS. In this session, they discussed telehealth from a provider's perspective. To download the slides, click here. 

Suicide remains a leading cause of death in our country, affecting all segments of the population. People just released from prison are at higher-risk of suicide, particularly if they also struggle with substance use. This webinar will present lessons learned from a research study that evaluates the effectiveness of the Safety Planning Intervention, a strategy for reducing suicide events among people transitioning from jail to the community. Principal Investigator Dr. Jennifer E. Johnson of Michigan State University will describe the nature of the problem and ways to reduce suicide events, given frequent substance use in this high-risk population. Recorded on March 3, 2020 Download Presentation Slides This webinar was presented in collaboration with the Great Lakes ATTC and the Central East ATTC and MHTTC. 

A number of national, regional, and state groups are all working toward system change and better financing mechanisms to provide better care.  The MHTTC Network compiled this list of some of the national stakeholders and key resources on first episode psychosis and clinical high risk found by downloading above.

Dr. Ana Bridges, a professor at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and an expert on integrated care with extensive clinical and research experience, presents Integrating psychologists into primary care clinics to address mental health disparities in Latinxs: Rationale and evidence of success. After her presentation, Diane Arms of the National Hispanic and Latino MHTTC provides additional perspective.   Download slides. Visit the webinar web page.   Author(s): Clarke, B.L., Robinson, L., Johnson, S./Mid-America MHTTC  

Recording of the webinar titled Landscape of Digital Peer Support Services Across the Globe, originally held on February 13, 2020.   Slide Presentation

Monthly electronic newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC. 

School Compassionate Cultural Analytic Tool for Educators (S-CCATE) is a cutting edge, 21st Century social emotional learning tool that helps educators to vision, plan, and monitor progress toward the implementation of compassionate, trauma-informed practices in classrooms. The tool, a brief, validated assessment to be completed by teachers and other school personnel, is uniquely designed to guide teams of educators and whole school communities through the process of transformational change.     Additional S-CCATE Resources Updated Tutorial S-CCATE Validation Study and Manual S-CCATE Infographic S-CCATE National Flyer

Prepared by Maria Hermsen-Kritz, Research and Training Center for Pathways to Positive Futures  Peer support is fast emerging as a promising and widely endorsed addition to the array of mental health services available to young people experiencing serious mental health conditions. This practice brief offers strategies for supporting youth peer support specialists and addressing common challenges they face. This brief was prepared in collaboration with the Research and Training Center for Pathways to Positive Futures, Portland State University and supported by grant SM 08171 from the Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Read the Northwest MHTTC's February newsletter: we honor Black History Month and share a compilation of related resources. Learn about our upcoming live webinars on trauma-informed care and integrated care for people with HIV and our newly available products, including recorded webinars on smoking cessation and youth peer support workforce retention. We are also pleased to announce the launch of a new online course: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) ePrimer. We also share some important events: the Northwest Rural Health Conference and the 46th Annual National Association for Rural Mental Health Conference: "Beyond Treatment: Tackling Social Determinants to Improve Rural Mental Health." 

This two-page fact sheet provides an overview of the criminalization of SMI, trans-institutionalization, the relationship between mental illness and criminal justice involvement, and the sequential intercept model.