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SAMHSA-funded training and technical assistance centers offer free support to those working in the field on topics across the behavioral health spectrum. This includes assistance for states, tribes, non-profits, communities, health care professionals, and behavioral health specialties including licensed clinicians and peer support specialists.
Training and technical assistance serves:
National audiences through webinars, online learning modules, and written resources
Specific groups through topic-based virtual learning collaboratives, communities of practice, or short-term training
Communities, states, tribes, and systems through intensive individualized technical assistance
The CMHIS builds the expertise of Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) grantees and other organizations that oversee or directly provide mental health services through utilizing science-based methods to implement, disseminate, and sustain services. The CMHIS provides national training and resources, as well as localized targeted and intensive technical assistance.
SAMHSA’s ED-CoE aims to develop and disseminate training and technical assistance (TTA) for healthcare professionals and greater eating disorder communities on prevention, treatment, and awareness. SAMHSA’s ED-CoE equips healthcare professionals and the public with the tools and resources to identify, treat, and support people with eating disorders.
Doors to Wellbeing (D2W), a Program of the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery, is dedicated to peer-led initiatives and training supporting the peer support workforce.
PENTAC works with the other TA Centers to promote evidence-based care for adults with serious mental illnesses. We recognize the value of those with lived experience as an integral component of the treatment system. Our work is infused with peer values and supported by consultants who are subject matter experts.
The Center is supported by SAMHSA to operate one of its five national technical assistance centers; providing technical assistance, training, and resources that facilitate the restructuring of the mental health system through effective consumer directed approaches for adults with serious mental illnesses across the country.
As a youth-run peer organization, YMN honors lived experience and recognizes the value of both traditional and non-traditional supports. We serve peers across the lifespan, their families, and providers of all ages, to grow the youth peer movement across the United States.
The National Empowerment Center Technical Assistance Center (NEC TAC) is a federally-funded consumer/survivor-run national technical assistance and resource center fostering recovery, self-determination, and community inclusion. We serve mental health consumer/survivors, peer-run service and advocacy organizations, family members, providers, and decision-makers.
The purpose of the CARS program is to provide trauma-informed addiction peer recovery support service training and technical assistance (TTA) to domestic public and private non-profit entities. The recipient will be expected to develop, implement, and maintain a TTA center that aligns with SAMHSA’s National Recovery Agenda.
Provides T/TA and educational resources for healthcare practitioners, families, individuals, states, and communities on various privacy statutes and regulations as they relate to behavioral health data on HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, and other behavioral health privacy topics.
The Crisis Systems Response Training and Technical Assistance Center (CSR-TTAC) provides support to states, territories, tribal organizations, and community partners across the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline network and behavioral health crisis continuum of care. The goal of the CSR-TTAC is to support a crisis care system that is integrated, sustainable, equitable, and aligned around evidence-based and evidenced-informed practices.
Advances bi-directional and promotes full integration of primary physical and behavioral health care by providing high quality, evidence-informed T/TA to a national audience, including health systems, health care providers, members of the public, and recipients of Promoting the Integration of Primary and Behavioral Health Care grants, with a specific focus on the Collaborative Care Model.
Increases access to, and effectiveness of, evidence-based mental health services for young people and their families, supports Children’s Mental Health Initiative grantees, and provides T/TA and resources to providers, organizations, and agencies from across the system of care.
Improves implementation and delivery of effective substance use prevention interventions and provides T/TA services to the substance misuse prevention field, which includes prevention practitioners and the public.
Expands community services for adults who are in the criminal justice system and experiencing a mental and/or substance use disorder. Provides information and skills training to help individuals, organizations, and states implement effective, integrated programming.
Develops and maintains the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (the Network), a collaborative network structure, supports resource and policy development and dissemination, and coordinates the Network’s national child trauma education and training efforts.
Increases access to Social Security Administration (SSA) disability benefits for eligible adults and children who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, medical impairment, and/or a co-occurring substance use disorder.
Expands the availability of training in evidence-based housing and treatment models focused on adults, children, and families who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders.
Builds national capacity for preventing suicide by providing T/TA and resources to assist states, tribes, organizations, and individuals to develop suicide prevention strategies (including programs, interventions, and policies) that advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, with the overall goal of reducing suicides and suicidal behaviors in the nation.
Supports the MFP program (grants to organizations for fellowship administration in the fields of marriage and family therapy, nursing, professional counseling, psychiatry, psychology, social work, addiction treatment, and addiction medicine), enhances the careers of the MFP Fellows, and documents MFP program impacts.
Provides T/TA for federally recognized tribes and tribal organizations, SAMHSA tribal grantees, and selected American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) communities and tribes to develop and implement a Tribal Action Plan. Helps AIAN communities build local capacity around substance use disorders, suicide prevention, and mental health using a culturally relevant, evidence-based, holistic approach.
Helps states and territories develop effective, responsive behavioral health systems for SMVF through public/private collaboration among federal, state/territorial, and local agencies. Helps states and territories establish operational interagency teams that develop strategic plans to improve behavioral health systems for SMVF via Policy Academies and Implementation and Leadership Academies.
Implements change strategies within mental health and substance use disorder treatment systems to address disparities across all stages of life through T/TA and coaching.
Supports national and regional activities focused on the delivery of effective substance use disorder treatment and recovery support services by preparing tools for the specialized behavioral health and primary care workforce and providing TA to provider organizations to improve their processes and practices.
Provides national T/TA to child welfare, dependency court, and substance use treatment professionals to improve the safety, stability and recovery outcomes for children, parents, and families affected by substance use and co-occurring mental disorders and child abuse or neglect.
Enhances the capacity of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, and substance use disorder (SUD) counseling professionals to identify and treat individuals using Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved medications for alcohol use disorder (MAUD).