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• Administration of Mental Health Services by Medicaid Agencies (SMA07-4301)
  
  
  
• Center for Mental Health Services: Overview (KEN95-0000)
  Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet describes the mission of the Center for Mental Health Services and provides an overview of the Center’s offices and divisions. 1998. 4 pp.
  
  
• Clinical Preventive Services in Substance Abuse and Mental Health Update: From Science to Services (SMA04-3906)
  Report
  This monograph explores the need for and value of preventive services for mental health and substance use disorders in health care settings. These disorders are widespread and costly, and they exact a high toll on our Nation and around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) determined the “burden of disability” associated with one major mental illness, unipolar depression, ranked fourth among all leading causes of disability worldwide. By the year 2020, the disease burden from depression will rank number two, surpassed only by heart disease (Murray & Lopez, 1996). The disability and disease burden of various medical conditions were estimated by “disability-adjusted life years,” or DALYs. This global burden has been underrecognized in economic cost and the impact on social structure.
  
  
• Community Action Kit (Contains 5 Pamphlets relating to the Youth Violence Prevention Initiative) (SVP-0063)
  Pamphlet
  These 5 pamphlets address topics of interest to communities that can help them develop and implement an evidence-based youth violence prevention program. Each pamphlet blends theory with the experiences of school violence prevention grantees to provide invaluable information to communities and schools.
  
  
• Contracting for Public Mental Health Services: Opinions of Managed Behavioral Health Care Organizations (SMA00-3438)
  Report
  This report summarizes the experiences of four managed behavioral health care organizations (MBHCOs) that participated in a focus group on the practices used in public sector managed care contracting. It discusses various problems, looks at the future of contracting, and provides specific recommendations. 2000. 38 pp.
  
  
• Co-Occurring Mental and Substance Abuse Disorders: a guide for mental health planning + advisory councils (NMH03-0146)
  Booklet
  This guide on co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders reviews the latest policy issues, prevalence data, and services research in an easy to understand format. The purpose of the guide is to help state mental health planning and advisory council members and other stakeholders assess the programs and services in their state plans for people who have co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders.
  
  
• Effects of The Vermont Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Law (SMA03-3822)
  Report
  Vermont implemented the Nation's most comprehensive parity law in 1998, extending equality of health insurance coverage to both mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) services. This report discusses how implementation of parity in Vermont affected major stakeholders: employers, health plans, providers, and consumers.
  
  
• Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program For Children and Their Families: Executive Summary, Annual Report to Congress - 1998 (CB-E198A)
  Book/Monograph
  The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families provides grants to States, communities, territories, and Native American Tribes and tribal organizations to improve and expand local systems of care designed to meet the individualized needs of the estimated 4.5 to 6.3 million children and adolescents with a serious emotional disturbance and their families.
  
  
• Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program/Annual Report to Congress 1999 (CB-E199)
  Book/Monograph
  This report provides a comprehensive overview of findings from the evaluation of the Center for Mental Health Services' Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families.
  
  
• Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program/Annual Report to Congress 2000, Executive Summary and Data Highlights (CB-E200)
  Book/Monograph
  This report to Congress gives a detailed evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Families Program for 2000.
  
  
• Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program/Annual Report to Congress 2001, Executive Summary and Data Highlights (CB-E201)
  Book/Monograph
  This report to Congress gives a detailed evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Families Program for 2001.
  
  
• Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and their Families - Annual Report to Congress, 1997. (CB-E1)
  Report
  This report to Congress gives a detailed evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Families Program for 1996.
  
  
• Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program For Children and Their Families, Annual Report to Congress - 1998 (CB-E198)
  Book/Monograph
  In this evaluation, the children had a wide range of diagnoses with many having disruptive behavior disorders (43 percent) including conduct disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity.
  
  
• Evidence-Based Assertive Community Treatment: A Guide for Mental Health Planning and Advisory Councils (KEN01-0084)
  Booklet
  This toolkit provides an introduction to evidence-based Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) programs. It will help State mental health planning and advisory council members and others assess the community-based programs and services offered in their State plans for people with serious and persistent mental illness.
  
  
• Gathering of Native Americans (GONA) (BKD-367)
  Article
  The Federal government through the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) has initiated a Community Partnership Training (CCPT) Project to assist Community Partnership grantees in support of community efforts to reduce and prevent alcohol and other drug abuse. The Native American component of the culturally specific institutes is called the "Gathering of Native Americans" (GONA).
  
  
• Journal of Primary Prevention-Special Issue Homelessness and Mental Illness Perspectives on Prevention Vol 28 Numbers 3&4 (JPP-07)
  Journal
  Homelessness is a growing social problem. Individuals with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders are at particularly high risk, experiencing homelessness more often and for longer periods than other subgroups. The individual and societal costs of homelessness are profound adn demand targeted and informed strategies for preventing and ending homelessness. This special issue of The Journal of Primary Prevention describes the most promising and innovative prevention strategies being used to reduce the risk of homelessness, facilitate transition into the community, and stabilize formerly homeless people to reduce the risk of homelessness, facilitate transition into the community, and stabilize formerly homeless people in permanent housing. The articles in this issue outline a range of strategies at the systems, services, and individual levels, targeted across the life span. The issue offers the beginning of a conceptual approach that can shape a comprehensive homelessness prevention framework and galvanize ongoing change. The development of this special issue was done through the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)- funded National Resource and Training Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness (contract # 270-03-4005) which is operated by The CDM Group, Inc. in partnership with the National Center on Family Homelessness and the CMHS-funded Homeless Resource Center (contract # HHSS280200600029C) which is operated by The Institute on Homelessness and Trauma.
  
  
• Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in Medicaid, 1995 (SMA02-3713)
  Report
  This report is intended to provide policy makers, interest groups, and others with basic information on mental health and substance abuse services and expenditures in Medicaid and associated trends. It presents statistics on user characteristics, service utilization, and expenditures for the non-elderly population in 10 selected States. 1995. 90 pp.
  
  
• Mental Health Care Provider Education in HIV/AIDS Program II (KEN98-0059)
  Summary
  This brochure presents a summary of a program that helps traditional mental health providers, other first line providers, and nontraditional providers–including clergy and alternative care workers–increase their understanding of how to better address the psychosocial and neuropsychiatric needs of people living with and/or affected by HIV/AIDS. 1998. 4 pp.
  
  
• Mental Health Providers in Rural and Isolated Areas: Final Report of the Ad Hoc Rural Mental Health Provider Work Group (SMA98-3166)
  Booklet
  This report of results from the Rural Mental Health Provider Work Group should be interpreted as a relatively independent confirmation of the seriousness of the problem and the types of strategies that must be implemented in order to improve the system of health, mental health, and substance care for rural Americans. 1997. 40pp.
  
  
• Mental Health, United States 2004 (SMA06-4195)
  Book/Monograph
  Mental Health, United States, 2004, a biennial publication of the Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA, contains 22 chapters of policy relevant information organized into five sections: quality improvement, covering such topics as mental health transformation, self-determination, information technology, and the Crossing the Quality Chasm report from the Institute of Medicine; measures to improve quality, including information from the Uniform Reporting System; mental health care in primary care settings; population assessments, including the prevalence of serious mental illnesses among adults and parental reports of emotional or behavioral difficulties among school-age children; and, national service statistics, including data on mental health practitioners and mental health consumer organizations.
  
  
• Mental Health, United States, 1998 (SMA99-3285)
  Book/Monograph
  This book summarizes statistical information related to health care reform, including managed care and policy considerations, lessons learned from behavioral managed care approaches, and the status of managed behavioral health care in America. It includes information on epidemiological data, mental health in Medicare and Medicaid programs, and mental health services in rural areas. 249 pp (The full text of this document is available in hardcopy only, but the executive summary is available on-line.)
  
  
• Mental Health, United States, 2000 (SMA01-3537)
  Book/Monograph
  The preparation of Mental Health, United States, 2000 presented interesting challenges: How could we encapsulate the current status of mental health services for present and future readers? Of equal importance, how could we describe the current development of mental health statistics? To resolve these issues, we construct Section 1 with an editorial on likely future directions and a chapter on where the field has been over the past 100 years. These pieces set the essential context for Section 2, on the current status of mental health statistics; and Section 3, on the current status of mental health services. Each of these sections is new to Mental Health, United States, 2000. Section 4, as in all previous editions, updates the National statistical picture for mental health
  
  
• Mental Health, United States, 2002 (SMA04-3938)
  Book/Monograph
  Mental Health, United States, 2002
  
  
• People with Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (Cs00-0011)
  Report
  This is a report of the proceedings of a two-day roundtable discussion on "People with Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Turning Policy into Practice" held in January 1995.
  
  
• Preventing Violence in the Workplace, Center for Mental Health Services Forum Report, February28-March 1,1994. (CMH94-5002)
  Booklet
  A two-day forum on preventing violence in the workplace, conducted by the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), brought together representatives from government agencies responsible for mental health programs and workplace violence experts. The objective of the forum was to synthesize diverse perspectives on the scope of the problem, develop mental health-related prevention strategies, and provide direction for researchers, social scientists, and policymakers.
  
  
• Preventive Interventions Under Managed Care: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (SMA00-3437)
  Report
  This publication reviews the literature on interventions that promote mental health and prevent the use of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. 2000. 90 pp.
  
  
• Report of the Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health: A National Action Agenda (SG-C)
  Booklet
  This report introduces a blueprint for addressing children's mental health needs in the United States.
  
  
• School Mental Health Services in the United States 2002-2003 (SMA05-4068)
  Report
  
  
• School-based Mental Health Services under Medicaid Managed Care (SMA00-3456)
  Report
  This publication reports on a study that sought to learn how schools and providers of school-based mental health services work with Medicaid managed care organizations. 2000. 43pp.
  
  
• Speaking With A Common Language: Past, Present, and Future Data Standards for Managed Behavioral Healthcare (MC95-51)
  Report
  In a managed care environment, consumers, providers, payers, and management services entities will all be concerned with and affected by the quality, appropriateness, and coverage of the data standards that are employed. 1995. 20 pp.
  
  
• State Mandates for Treatment for Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders (SMA07-4228)
  Report
  This new report presents the results of a series of hour-long telephone interviews with State Medicaid directors or their designees in all 50 States and the District of Columbia, conducted in 2005-2006, that explored how State Medicaid agencies are addressing the organizational, funding, policy, management, and data issues that arise from their increased and often shared responsibilities for mental health services.
  
  
• Systems of Care - Values Poster (CA-0049)
  Poster
  This poster advertises the three core principles of a good system of care for children: child centered and family driven; community based; and culturally competent.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health- Learing from Families: Identifying Service Strategies for Success, 2001 Series (Vol. 2) (CA PROM01v2)
  Book/Monograph
  This book discusses systems of care, serving very young children and their families, that are finding innovative and effective ways to design and deliver services.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-A Compilation of Lessons Learned from the 22 Grantees of the 1997 Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program, 1998 Series (Vol. 7) (CA-PROMISv7)
  Book/Monograph
  Grantees share their experiences in five main areas: family involvement/empowerment, cultural competency, systems of care, evaluation, and managed care in this publication.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-Building Collaboration in Systems of Care, 1998 Series (Vol. 6) (CA-PROMISv6)
  Book/Monograph
  This publication explores the importance of collaboration in a system of care focusing on three specific issues: the foundations of collaboration, implementing the collaborative process, and the results of collaboration.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-Cultural Strengths and Challenges in Implementing A System of Care Model in American Indian Communities, 2000 Series (Vol 1) (CA-PROM00v1)
  Book/Monograph
  This publication examines the promising practices of five American Indian children's mental health projects that integrate traditional American Indian helping and healing methods with the systems of care model are discussed in this publication.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-For the Long Haul: Maintaining Systems of Care Beyond the Federal Investment, 2000 Series (Vol. 3) (CA-PROM00V3)
  Book/Monograph
  Fundamental strategies grantee sites should consider in order to maintain long-term financial stability, are discussed on this site. A special emphasis is placed on non-Federal funding sources.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-New Roles for Families in Systems of Care, 1998 Series (Vol. 1) (CA-PROMISv1)
  Book/Monograph
  This publication explores ways in which family members are becoming equal members with service providers and administrators, specifically as "system of care coordinators" and "family as faculty".
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-Promising Practices in Early Childhood Mental Health, 2001 Series (Vol. 3) (CA PROM01v3)
  Book/Monograph
  The success stories of families with children who suffer from emotional and behavioral disorders are explored in this publication.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-Promising Practices in Family-Provider Collaboration, 1998 Series (Vol. 2) (CA-PROMISv2)
  Book/Monograph
  The fundamental challenges and key aspects of success in building collaboration between families and service providers are discussed in this publication.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-Promising Practices in Wraparound for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance and Their Families, 1998 Series (Vol. 4) (CA-PROMISv4)
  Book/Monograph
  This publication identifies the essential elements of wraparound, provides a meta-analysis of the research previously done on the topic, and examines how three sites are turning wraparound into promising practices in their own system of care.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-The Role of Education in a System of Care: Effectively Serving Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders, 1998 Series (Vol. 3) (CA-PROMISv3)
  Book/Monograph
  This publication explores sites that are overcoming obstacles to educating children with serious emotional disturbance and establishing successful school-based systems of care are the subject of this publication.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-Training Strategies for Serving Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance and Their Families in a System of Care, 1998 Series (Vol. 5) (CA-PROMISv5)
  Book/Monograph
  This publication examines theories in adult learning, core values and looks at promising practices that are combining these concepts into a successful and sustainable training program.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-Using Evaluation Data to Manage, Improve, Market, and Sustain Children's Services, 2000 Series (Vol. 2) (CA-PROM00v2)
  Book/Monograph
  This publication explores promising practices in the use of evaluation data and shares a wealth of ideas and experiences from sites about using local data in ways that can impact service delivery, management, and sustainability of these services.
  
  
• Systems of Care: A Promising Solution for Children With Serious Emotional Disturbances and Their Families (CA-0030)
  Brochure
  This publication provides an overview of the Center for Mental Health Services’ Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families which supports grant sites for systems of care nationally. It highlights case studies of typical families who have benefitted from their involvement in systems of care and contains a list of resources, including contacts, suggested readings, and organizations. 1998. 6 pp.
  
  
• Systems of Care: Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-Wraparound: Stories From the Field, 2001 Series (Vol. 1) (CA Prom01v1)
  Book/Monograph
  This booklet uses the stories of 6 families to explore the conviction among providers, advocates, and families that Wraparound is better, cheaper, and more humane than conventional service delivery processes for families of children with serious emotional disturbance.
  
  
• Use of Prescription Psychoactive Drugs in Medicaid, 1995 (SMA02-3712)
  Report
  This report presents statistics on the use of prescription drugs for the treatment of mental health and substance abuse disorders among the non-elderly population in 10 selected States. These statistics are presented in a uniform set of tables for each of the 10 States and a set of tables that aggregates data across all 10 States. 2002. 66 pp.
  
  
• Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General - Executive Summary (SG-YV-EXEC)
  Booklet
  This report--the first Surgeon General's report on youth violence-- reviews a massive body of research on where, when, and how much youth violence occurs, what causes it, and which of today's many preventive strategies are genuinely effective.
  
  
• Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General (with Executive Summary) (SG-YV)
  Report
  This Surgeon General's report seeks to focus on action steps that all Americans can take to help address the problem of youth violence and continue to build a legacy of health and safety for our young people and the Nation as a whole.
  
  

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