State TA Resources

The purpose of the State TA is to provide technical assistance and support to State Mental Health Authorities (SMHAs) in successful program implementation of the MHBG including evidence-based and promising practices, crisis services, and mental/behavioral health planning councils to meet the needs of children with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and adults with serious mental illness (SMI).

About State TA

• Introduction to State Program Improvement Technical Assistance (PDF | 2 MB)
• Introduction to State Program Improvement Technical Assistance Webinar (52 minutes)

Mental/Behavioral Health Planning Councils

• Mental/Behavioral Health Planning Council Webinar (1 hour, 23 minutes)
• State Behavioral Health Planning Councils: An Introductory Manual (PDF | 995 KB)

Crisis Services

• The Roles of Peers Throughout the Crisis Service System (1 hour, 29 minutes)
• Facilitating Care Across the Crisis Continuum: Follow-Up in Post-Crisis Intervention (1 hour, 22 minutes)
• Facilitating Care Across the Crisis Continuum: Children’s Crisis Services (1 hour, 17 minutes)
• Facilitating Care Across the Crisis Continuum: Using Technology and Data (1 hour, 21 minutes)
• Developing the Behavioral Health Crisis Continuum Webinar (1 hour, 20 minutes)
• Training Mobile Crisis Teams—Unique Needs for Children & Adolescents (1 hour, 20 minutes)
• Mobile Crisis Response in Rural and Remote Communities (1 hour, 16 minutes)
• Using Medicaid to Finance Mobile Crisis Teams (1 hour, 2 minutes)
• Snapshot of Behavioral Health Crisis Services and Related Technical Assistance Needs Across the U.S. (PDF | 4 MB)
• Staffing Models for Mobile Crisis Teams to Promote 24/7 Coverage (1 hour, 17 minutes)

Early Serious Mental Illness

• Early Recognition and Effective Treatment of Early Serious Mental Illness

Mental Health Block Grant (MHBG)

• Strategies for Drawing Down MHBG Supplemental Funding Webinar (57 minutes)
• FY2024-2025 MHBG Application Webinar (1 hour, 18 minutes)

Additional Resources

• Issue Brief: Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use
• Infectious Disease Management in Behavioral Health (1 hour, 31 minutes)
• Maternal Mental Health Learning Collaborative Webinar (1 hour, 11 minutes)
• Integrating Behavioral Health Learning Collaborative Webinar (1 hour, 18 minutes)
• Integrating Syphilis Programming into Behavioral Healthcare Settings (1 hour, 28 minutes)
• Highlights from SAMHSA’s National Strategy to Improve Maternal Mental Health (47 minutes)
• Issue Brief: Expanding Peer Support and Supporting the Peer Workforce in Mental Health
• The Role of Opioid Treatment Programs in Integrated Care (1 hour, 32 minutes)
• Issue Brief: Person-Centered Planning
• Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Older Adults - State TA Brief Reference Document (PDF | 1.8 KB)
• Addressing Workforce Needs on Retention and Recruitment Webinar (1 hour, 28 minutes)
• Emergency Department Boarding (1 hour, 1 minute)