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National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
Who We Are
Since 1984, the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University has been dedicated to helping States, Tribes, territories, and communities build systems that improve access to quality care and improve outcomes for children with, or at-risk of, emotional disorders, and their families. The Center is supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Administration for Children and Families, private foundations, and individual contracts.
System of care values guide the work of the Center as it promotes service delivery that is community-based; comprehensive, coordinated, and collaborative across systems; in full partnership with families and youth; culturally and linguistically competent; strengths-based; and individualized to meet each child and family's needs.
How We Can Help
Technical assistance and training opportunities are offered by the Center through ongoing work or through cost-sharing arrangements.
Training Events
Examples of training events include:
- National Training Institutes offered every 2 years to a national audience of more than 2,000 to provide practical information on best practices in building comprehensive systems of care
- Primer Hands On: System of Care, an interactive training, offered in both English and Spanish, to provide leaders with in-depth knowledge of the structural, process, and operational components of systems of care
- Primary Care and Mental Health Integration training for States and communities
- Intensive 4-day curriculum-based interactive training program on leadership development for administrators and family leaders
- Monthly technical assistance conference call series
Individualized Technical Assistance
Examples of strategies for providing TA include:
- National Policy Academies for high-level, cross-agency teams from individual States and Tribes to work on policies and practices to support system reform
- Transformation facilitation involving individual support for State Child Mental Health Directors
- Individualized technical assistance for States receiving infrastructure grants
- Responding to individual requests, including limited onsite technical assistance
- Presentations, including conference key notes and workshops
- Brokering to connect individuals and organizations with resources (written and human)
- Facilitating and leading meetings to do strategic planning and solve complex issues
Discovering, Producing, and Disseminating Knowledge
Through research studies and evaluation activities, the Center discovers new knowledge and provides this information to the field through publications, articles, book chapters, and searchable databases. Publications are available through the website.
Child Welfare—Mental Health Initiative
The goal of the Center's child welfare and mental health initiative is to increase the capacity of States and communities to offer effective mental health services for children and families served by the child welfare system. The Center infuses child welfare issues into its ongoing work, partners with other NRCs on specific projects, conducts related studies, and provides assistance on mental health and child welfare collaboration.
Topics and Areas of Focus
The Center provides technical assistance on a number of issues including, but not limited to strategic planning to build systems of care, cross-system collaboration, policy and infrastructure development, cultural and linguistic competence, early childhood mental health, leadership and workforce issues, health and mental health needs of children and families in child welfare, mediation, primary care and mental health, financing, managed care, implementing evidence-based practices, partnering with families and building family-driven and youth-guided systems, screening and assessment, and school-based mental health services.
For More Information
Return to the Children's Bureau Training and Technical Assistance Network
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