This guide offers communities strategies for developing partnerships with faith-based organizations to address the service needs of people with mental illness and substance use disorders. It highlights examples and presents challenges and benefits of such partnerships.
Resource Types: Manual
Medicaid handbook: Interface with behavioral health services
This guide reviews Medicaid and its role in financing services and treatment for mental health disorders and substance use disorders. It discusses services included in state Medicaid plans, the role of the provider, reimbursement, and other factors related to Medicaid.
TAP 33: Systems-level implementation of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT)
Describes core elements of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) programs for people with or at risk for substance use disorders. Describes SBIRT services implementation, covering challenges, barriers, cost, and sustainability.
Guide to evidence-based prevention
This document provides an overview of evidence-based prevention, types of evidence, and limitations of research-based evidence.
Comprehensive Blueprint For Workplace Suicide Prevention
This website discusses a comprehensive approach to workplace suicide prevention and presents resources for each recommended strategy.
A Resource Guide for Families Dealing with Mental Illness
This guide provides information for families who have a relative with mental illness. It describes the major mental illnesses and issues related to treating them and living with them, and needs of the individual such as housing and financial issues. A lot of the information is relevant beyond Michigan.
Public Health Action for the Prevention of Suicide: A Framework
The purpose of this document is to provide a resource to assist governments in developing and implementing strategies for the prevention of suicide as well as to help those that have already initiated the process of conceptualizing national suicide prevention strategies.
It draws on the evidence base built in the 15 years since the publication of the UN guidelines to outline the processes involved in developing a national suicide prevention strategy. It also identifies the critical elements of a framework for taking public health action to prevent suicide.
Balancing safety and support on campus: A guide for campus teams
This guide summarizes the existing literature on campus teams and suggests some of the key issues that should be considered when creating or managing a campus team. It includes key considerations for developing a behavioral intervention team, or the equivalent, and also survey data in terms of common terminology, structure, and participation. The guide may be particularly useful to new teams considering various options for how they should be organized and led, but should also be helpful to existing teams interested in assessing their current functions, operations, or emphases.
Balancing Safety and Support on Campus: A Guide for Campus Teams is a 36-page manual that provides recommendations and guidelines for the development of on-campus teams whose purpose is to assess, support and respond to troubled or potentially violent students, including those who are suicidal. The manual provides guidance on: forming teams; what to do before, during, and after an intervention; developing policies and procedures to govern the team’s work; special challenges for commuter and community colleges; promoting a culture of caring; and describing ongoing team functions. Examples of programs and protocols from campuses across the nation illustrate team principles.
Recommendations found in Balancing Safety and Support on Campus: A Guide for Campus Teams were drawn from existing literature and professional experience. Balancing Safety and Support on Campus was developed by the Higher Education Mental Health Alliance (HEMHA). Numerous professional organizations and individuals participated in the development process.
Program Objectives:
Campus teams that use Balancing Safety and Support on Campus will have greater knowledge of how to:
1. Identify the focus and scope of their campus team.
2. Create and effectively manage their campus team.
3. Develop institutional policies and procedures related to safety.
4. Promote a “culture of caring.”
Data-based planning for effective prevention: State epidemiological outcomes workgroups
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention has funded State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroups (SEOWs) to assist states, jurisdictions, tribal entities (collectively referred to as states), and communities to adopt and implement the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). The SPF provides a structure for the selection, funding, implementation, and evaluation of substance abuse prevention programming and, under a 2010 funding initiative, mental, emotional, and behavioral health programming.
This publication describes the evolution, structure, and accomplishments of SEOWs as a key component of SAMHSA’s support of states as they address problems related to substance abuse and mental, emotional & behavioral (MEB) disorders. It highlights SEOW successes and offers guidance for providing data to support prevention decision-making in the future at the state and community levels.
Program evaluation guide
This guide provides information and instructions on methodical, practical and efficient program evaluation methods and techniques to determine if a program is meeting its stated objectives. It provides templates to examine program effectiveness and provide guidance on implementing programmatic changes to improve outcomes and meet specific goals. TBI, psychological health, substance abuse prevention and suicide prevention are the types of programs covered.