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• Action Steps for Improving Women's Mental Health (OWH09-PROFESSIONAL)
  Booklet
  This is a report that brings together the most recent research, resources, products, and tools on mental health issues in women and explores the role gender plays in diagnosing, treating, and coping with mental illness. It also points to resilience and social support systems as key factors in overcoming mental illness.
  
  The report outlines specific action steps for policy-makers, health care providers, researchers, and others to take in an effort to address the burden of mental illness on women's lives and increase their capacity for recovery.
  
  
• Blueprint for Change: Ending Chronic Homelessness for Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders (SMA04-3870)
  Report
  The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and its Center for Mental Health Services, in collaboration with SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), have developed this report to disseminate state-of-the-art information about ending homelessness for people who have serious mental illnesses, including those with co-occurring substance use disorders. It offers practical advice for how to plan, organize, and sustain a comprehensive, integrated system of care designed to end homelessness for people with serious mental illnesses and/or co-occurring substance use disorders.
  
  
• Estimating the Cost of Preventive Services in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Under Managed Care (SMA02-3617R)
  Report
  Estimating the Cost of Preventive Services in Mental Health and Substance Abuse under Managed Care presents cost estimates for providing six preventive interventions previously identified through a CMHS-funded literature review and analysis of peer-reviewed, published research studies. The estimates are presented as models that project the range of potential cost in a "per member per month" (PMPM) format, for services provided to members of a managed care organization. 2001. 67 pp.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• School Mental Health Services in the United States 2002-2003 (SMA05-4068)
  Report
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program Evaluation Findings: Annual Report to Congress 2002-2003 (SMA-CB-E2002/03)
  Report
  This combined report represents the eighth and ninth annual reports, which covers evaluation activities of the children’s mental health services grant program through FY 2002 and 2003.
  
  
• The Costs and Effects of Parity for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Insurance Benefits (MC99-80)
  Report
  This report presents findings from a project conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) on the costs and effects of providing parity for MH/SA benefits. 1999. 57 pp.
  
  

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