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Find resources and tools for advancing your behavioral health care coordination, criminal justice diversion, and crisis care continuum efforts here.

These resources include products developed by the CARE TA Center, its affiliates, and other state and national organizations, as well as tools and samples from local and county agencies.

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Best Practices in Delivering Virtual School Based Counseling (COVID-19 Rapid Response Network)

This short guide compiles perspectives from the field and resources for further reading.

Beyond Beds: The Vital Role of a Full Continuum of Psychiatric Care

This report addresses offers 10 public policy recommendations for reducing the human and economic costs associated with severe mental illness by building and invigorating a robust, interconnected, evidence-based system of...

Beyond border health: Infrastructural violence and the health of border abolition

This article goes beyond the structural determinants of health analysis to outline the underlying conditions -- race, political economy, history, and borders themselves – that give rise to ill health...

Beyond Cultural and Linguistic Competence (CLC): Achieving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Leaders of Color

Building Bridges is a national initiative working to identify and promote practice and policy that will create strong and carefully coordinated partnerships and collaborations between families, youth, community- and residentially-based...

BH Information Notice: 20-75 AOT/Laura’s Law

This BHIN outlines the implementation and reporting requirements of the AOT program. Participating counties are required to comply with all statutory provisions.

Bill AB1421 Chaptered Bill Text on Laura’s Law

The following link (and excerpt) is the Chaptered Bill Text of AB 1421. "The existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, makes provision for the involuntary treatment of any person with a...

Black Wellness Guide

Self-care Resources for Healing and Overcoming Racial Trauma.

Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development

Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development provides a registry of evidence-based positive youth development programs designed to promote the health and well-being of children and teens.

Bolder Goals: Seven Breakthrough Strategies to Improve Mental Illness Outcomes

In this report, the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) proposes seven goals to produce breakthroughs for people living with serious mental illness.

Book: Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

This beautifully written memoir recounts the impact on one child as he grows up in a country where his family, friends and neighbors are under constant threat of deportation. The...

The CARE TA Center is dedicated to helping state, county, and local agencies address the disproportionate impact of behavioral health crisis on diverse communities. These resources include an emphasis on tools for understanding and meeting the needs of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); linguistically diverse communities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer identified people (LGBTQ); and vulnerable populations such as youth and people experiencing homelessness.