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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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A Caregiver’s Toolkit

This booklet provides resources and suggestions for family caregivers.

A Collaborative Approach to the Treatment of Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorders

This manual offers best practices to states, tribes, and local communities on collaborative treatment approaches for pregnant women living with opioid use disorders, and the risks and benefits associated with...

A Community Guide for Development of a Crisis Diversion Facility: A Model for Effective Community Response to Behavioral Health Crisis

The crisis diversion facility model can be a core component of a coordinated, systemic response, bringing health and service sectors together with law enforcement and first responders in a central...

A Comprehensive Crisis System: Ending Unnecessary Emergency Room Admissions and Jail Bookings Associated with Mental Illness

This paper will serve as a roadmap on how to fund and implement a comprehensive crisis system in your community that will lower the overall cost of healthcare and dramatically...

A Decade Undone: Youth Disconnection in the Age of Coronavirus

This report uses data from 2400 public use microdata areas to identify disconnected youth, that is youth who are not involved in school or work.

A Diversion Toolkit for Communities

A Diversion Toolkit for Communities was created for organizations interested in building pre-charge restorative justice diversion (RJD) programs.

A Facilitators Guide: Intersectional Approaches to Mental Health Education

A guide designed to support mental health literacy education from a place of inclusion and diversity.

A Framework for State/Regional Self-Assessment

This one-page graphic is designed to help states and regions assess their crisis system, from minimally to fully integrated.

A Guide to Crisis Response Webinar Slides

Engage in learning about mental health and the impact of disorders/trauma in the classroom. • Engage in learning about best practices in relation to crisis • Learn about BUL-2637.1 Suicide...

A Guide to Laura’s Law

This guidebook starts with a brief history of how Assisted Outpatient Treatment started in California, and then overviews the way AOT works and how to establish it in one's own...

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.