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Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center

Describes Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) activities, which provide common standards and shared technologies to monitor and analyze the quality of health care provided to patients and patient outcomes. This resource center offers educational resources, tools, and standards for using eCQI

Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT)

Provides information on the EPSDT benefit for children under age 21 enrolled in Medicaid, including guidelines and strategy guides for State programs

CMS Behavioral Health Strategy

Summarizes the goals, objectives, and supporting activities of the CMS Behavioral Health Strategy, which aims to support a person's whole emotional and mental well-being through covering multiple elements, including access to prevention and treatment services for substance use disorders, mental health services, crisis intervention, and pain care

Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration in Rural Health Facilities: Policy Brief and Recommendations to the Secretary

Offers policy recommendations for increasing behavioral health and primary care integration in rural areas. Recommendations include access, workforce recruitment and retention, telehealth and technology, and reimbursement

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

This website provides data and additional resources about the misuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in the United States, including data from the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner's Guide

Offers guidance for health care professionals to quickly identify youth ages 9-18 at risk for alcohol-related problems

Addressing Excessive Alcohol Use: State Fact Sheets

Summarizes statistics on alcohol use, such as number of deaths from excessive alcohol use each year, and policy solutions, such as raising taxes in each state

Fostering Resilience and Recovery: Trauma-Informed Primary Care Implementation Guide Using FOCUS-PDSA To Manage Organizational Change

Guides primary care organizations through adopting principles of primary care, using an adapted Find, Organize, Clarify, Understand, Select (FOCUS) Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) quality improvement framework

Adapting Evidence-based Practices for Under-resourced Populations

This guide focuses on research supporting adaptations of evidence-based practices (EBPs) for under-resourced populations. Adaptations involve tailoring care, programs, and services to the cultural, social, gender, and demographic contexts of the people served to yield positive outcomes.

2022 National Drug Control Strategy

This inaugural National Strategy proposes bold, targeted, and consequential actions to bend the curve on overdose deaths in the immediate term and reduce substance use and its damaging consequences in the US over the longer term.

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