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Resource Library

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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Advocacy Toolkit

This Advocacy Toolkit is intended to provide information, knowledge, and resources to engage in systems change and policy advocacy.

Affirmative Care for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People: Best Practices for Front-line Health Care Staff

Front desk and other front-line staff play a critical role in helping trans and nonbinary people feel welcome and get the health care services they need. This guide by The...

After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools, Second Edition

This toolkit for schools assists schools in implementing a coordinated response to the suicide death of a student.

Aggregated COVID-19 Response Procedures for Adults in Residential Care (COVID-19 Rapid Response Network)

The short guide compiles procedures from various health resources to outline initial responses upon presentation of COVID-19 symptoms.

AHRQ Clinician Research Summary: Pharmacotherapy for Adults with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) in Outpatient Settings

This is a summary of a systematic review evaluating the evidence regarding the efficacy, comparative effectiveness, and adverse effects of medications in adults with Alcohol Use Disorder.

Aiming to Reduce Time-In-Cell: Reports from Correctional Systems on the Numbers of Prisoners in Restricted Housing and on the Potential of Policy Changes to Bring About Reforms

This report provides current, comprehensive data on the use of restricted housing, and also documents efforts across the country to reduce the number of people in restricted housing and to...

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner’s Guide

With this Guide, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism introduces a simple, quick, empirically derived tool for identifying youth at risk for alcohol-related problems.

All Studies on Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) in multiple states and in counties of different size show it works

AOT reduces violence, arrest, hospitalization and incarceration of persons with serious mental illness and thereby saves taxpayers the cost of care.

An Inside Look at Making Mental Health Diversion Work

Learn about the research that informs how to successfully implement mental health diversion as a strategy for prosecutors. This session will cover background on the issue of the over-representation of...

An insider’s plan for rehabilitating the juvenile justice system

Juveniles committing crimes sometimes get treated like adults in the penile system. Sometimes this seems logical and the “right thing to do”. But is it? Jeff Wallace takes you through...

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.