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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 Guide to Providing Mental Health Services to Immigrants Impacted by Changes to DACA and the COVID-19 Pandemic

This guide was written for those providing or planning to provide mental health and human services to individuals who benefit from DACA.

A Matter of Public Health and Safety: How States Can Support Local Crisis Systems

This resource contains strategies for funding and sustaining local crisis systems, with a focus on ensuring that systems are effective and equitable.

A Model for School-based Crisis Preparedness and Response

To be effective, a school's crisis response model must anticipate the results of a crisis and identify the ways it will affect individuals and the community. This includes identifying and...

A Model Shared Definition of Serious Mental Illness & Practical Strategies for Its Use to Reduce the Number of People with Mental Illnesses in California’s Jails

This resource provides A definition for Serious Mental Illness.

A New Deal for Transition Age Foster Youth in California

A policy roadmap for ensuring a resilient recovery after COVID-19 to support transitional age foster youth.

A potential new form of jail diversion and reconnection to mental health services: II. Demonstration of feasibility

The study tested the feasibility of implementing a new pre-booking diversion program, called the “linkage” system which can support in reducing incarceration. The “linkage” system consists of 3 steps where...

A Practical Guide to Gender-Sensitive Approaches for Disaster Management

This guide highlights the need for gender-sensitive approaches and provides information on gender issues in disaster management. The document describes the approaches of the International Federation of Red Cross and...

A Practical Guide to Psychiatric Advance Directives

This report provides background and practical information promoting the use of psychiatric advance directives as a tool for self-directed care in psychiatric treatment, progress toward parity in mental health, and...

A Roadmap for Advancing Youth Diversion in Los Angeles County

The report offers a series of recommendations for the LA County juvenile justice system that may be adopted or adapted for other counties.

A Virginia Mental Institution for Black Patients, Opened After the Civil War, Yields Trove of Disturbing Records

Psychiatric abuse, forced sterilization, experimental surgeries, and manual labor are some of the “treatments” received by Black mental health patients in psychiatric wards post-Civil-War to the 1960s.

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.