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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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Brief Crisis Interventions

This webinar explores the brief crisis intervention model, which provides immediate response and short-term support to help students remain in school.

Brief Motivational Intervention for Substance Use may Decrease Violence Among Heavy Alcohol Users in a Jail Diversion Program

The authors analyze existing randomized controlled trial data to determine the impact of a brief motivational intervention (BMI) among individuals in a pre-trial diversion program. Their findings conclude that BMI...

Brief Screener for Alcohol, Tobacco, and other Drugs

This tool consists of frequency of use questions to identify risky substance use by adolescent patients. The accompanying resources assist clinicians in providing patient feedback and resources for follow-up.

Bringing Racial Equity Strategies to Recovery Support Services

This recorded webinar focuses on bringing racial equity strategies to recovery support services. The presenters discuss skills for having open and honest discussions about racial equity, the history of race...

Building a Racial Equity Approach to FSP

This webinar highlights efforts to use data to improve cultural competency and racial equity in full-service partnerships (FSPs) in San Mateo, Sacramento, and Los Angeles Counties.

Building Cultural Competency in Technology and Communities

Theresa Nguyen provides four anti-racism safeguards to consider as we develop anti-racist programming and innovations.

Building on Family Strengths for Better Outcomes: Involving more families, more often, for more youth

Juvenile justice agencies are increasingly aware of the benefits to partnering with families whose youth are in their care and custody. The research, albeit limited, is conclusive: youth who have...

Cafecito Conversation with Wayne Lindstrom, PhD

The CARE Technical Assistance Center presents a "Cafecito Conversation" with Wayne Lindstrom, PhD. As Vice President of Business Development with RI International, Wayne shares highlights in his work with mobile...

Cafecito with Chris Roup of NAMI California

Chris Roup is Executive Director of NAMI CA, discussing the Memphis Model/CIT of training first responders to mental health crisis as a form of justice diversion.

Cafecito with Steven Samra

Steven Samra is a Peer Specialist of CARE Partner C4 Innovations discussing the role of anti-stigma efforts at the systems, collegial, and personal levels across the crisis care continuum and...

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.