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Crisis Systems Coordination and Collaboration: Leveraging Strengths and Opportunity of 988 and 911

This technical assistance brief will review many aspects of crisis system collaboration, incorporating stakeholder input gathered during this exciting transition from a default emergency medical and law enforcement response to a more intentional, varied continuum of behavioral health crisis responses.

Innovative Uses of Technology to Enhance Access to Services Within the Crisis Continuum

This paper focuses on the potential that technological innovations have in making behavioral health crisis services more accessible and equitable across the United States and includes case studies from states and providers who were early adopters of leveraging technology to facilitate crisis care.

Crisis Services: General Medical and Psychiatric Approaches to Care Delivery

This paper outlines many important considerations in delivering medical psychiatric crisis care and provides information and recommendations to improve practices and ultimately better meet the needs of individuals served.

Growing and Strengthening the Behavioral Health Crisis Response Workforce

This paper discusses employee- and organization-level strategies to combat barriers to employee recruitment, retention, and wellness among the crisis response and general behavioral health workforce.

Peer Support Services Across the Crisis Continuum

This paper presents best practices that will help to circumvent current challenges facing peer support workers and allow them to integrate within the crisis continuum.

Connected and Strong: Strategies for Accessible and Effective Crisis and Mental Health Services

This technical assistance brief reviews areas of critical need in mental health services across the United States. It discusses the behavioral health workforce, youth mental wellness, the justice system, social determinants of health, suicide, and drug-related overdose fatalities. It highlights five core principles that guide strategies to combat these problems.

Preventing Substance Use Among Young Adults with Disabilities

This advisory highlights the need for primary substance use prevention programs for young adults ages 18 to 25 with disabilities, provides guidance to prevention specialists on designing and tailoring these programs, and describes factors that may affect the delivery of prevention.