• Paper: Behavioral Health Homes for People with Mental Health & Substance Use Conditions: The Core Clinical Features (pdf)
  A SAMHSA paper that prepares behavioral health provider organizations to become health homes by outlining the essential clinical features and introduces several real-world examples of how behavioral health provider organizations are successfully implementing the clinical features of a health homes around the country.
   
• Issue Brief: SBIRT: Opportunities for Implementation and Points to Consider (pdf)
  From SAMHSA, an overview of SBIRT’s benefits and core components, opportunities for implementation in healthcare settings that have become available through the Affordable Care Act, and potential obstacles to implementation.
   
• Report: Measurement of Health Status for People with Serious Mental Illnesses (pdf)
  SAMHSA/CMHS partnered with NASMHPD to identify performance measures for mental health facilities to identify the health needs of mental health consumers served.
   
• Report: Behavioral Health/Primary Care Integration and the Person-Centered Healthcare Home (pdf)
  Presents evidence-based approaches to a person-centered healthcare home for the population living with serious mental illnesses. In doing so, it brings together current developments around the patient-centered medical home with evidence-based approaches to the integration of primary care and behavioral health. From the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare.
   
• Report: Substance Use Disorders and the Person-Centered Healthcare Home (pdf)
  This paper, from the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, specifically describes the integration of substance use treatment with healthcare services. It addresses several questions: Why are SU disorders important to healthcare? What does a PCMH look like for people living with serious SU disorders and what is the model for bi-directional integration of SU treatment with healthcare?
   
• Report: Integration of Mental Health/Substance Abuse and Primary Care
  A report from AHRQ Integration Academy which describes models of integrated care used in the United States, assesses how integration of mental health services into primary care settings or primary health care into specialty outpatient settings impacts patient outcomes, and describes barriers to sustainable programs, use of health information technology (IT), and reimbursement structures of integrated care programs within the United States.
   
• Screening Tools from the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions
  Screening tools for use in primary care and other healthcare settings to enable earlier identification of mental health and substance use disorders. Includes screening tools for depression, substance use, bipolar disorder, suicide risk, and anxiety disorders.
   
• IMPACT Program - Tools
  A wide range of tools, from treatment manuals to patient tracking tools, which assist in the implementation of the IMPACT program, from the John A. Hartford Foundation.
  

  Key Components of Impact (pdf) IMPACT Study Outcomes (pdf) Team Building Tool (pdf) Needs Assessment (pdf)

  Planning Grid (pdf) Fidelity Measure (pdf) Job descriptions for care manager and consulting psychiatrist (pdf) Financing IMPACT slides (pdf)

• Implementation Tools
  The tools offered University of Washington AIMS Center are designed to help you plan and implement a successful integrated care program.
  

  Implementation Timeline (pdf) Overview of integrated care key components

  Introduction to Teambuilding (pdf) Care Manager Job Desription (pdf)

• Depression and Primary Care Toolkit
  This toolkit from the MacArthur Foundation collects in one place a variety of easy to use instruments and information to assist clinicians and patients with the various steps in the process of care for depression recognition and treatment.

• Primary Care/County Mental Health Toolkit (pdf)
  From the Integrated Behavioral Health Project - Partners in Health, a toolkit designed to help primary care clinics and government mental health agencies forge collaborative relationships. The 180-page Tool Kit provides practical, operational advice, forms, strategies and prototypes for integrating mental and physical services.
   
• An Employer’s Guide to Behavioral Health Services (pdf)
  A roadmap and recommendations for evaluating, designing and implementing behavioral health services from the National Business Group on Health.
   
• The Four Quadrant Model and Evidence Based Practices (pdf)
  This paper from the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare provides a conceptual model for the integration of behavioral health and healthcare services.
   
• The Chronic Care Model
  Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this model has significantly influenced the development of the patient-centered medical home.
   
• Evolving Models of Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care (pdf)
  Collins, C., Hewson, D., Munger, R. & Wade, T. (2010). Evolving models of behavioral health
            Integration in primary care. NY: Milbank Memorial Fund.
  This report summarizes the available evidence and states’ experiences around integration as a means for delivering quality, effective physical and mental health care. It also provides eight models that represent qualitatively different ways of integrating/coordinating care across a continuum according to stakeholder needs, resources, and practice patterns.
   
• National Council for Community Behavioral Health Care: Policy Issues & Resources - Collaborative Care
  Fact sheets, reports, letters, etc. pertaining to collaborative care.
  

  Summary of CMS Guidance on Implementing Health Homes in Medicaid (pdf) Fact Sheet on Community Care Teams (pdf)

  Report: Accountable Care Organizations: The Tipping Point for Behavioral Health (pdf) Report: Behavioral Health/Primary Care Integration and the Person-Centered Healthcare Home (pdf)

Certificate Programs

• University of Massachusetts Medical School: Department of Family Medicine and Community Health's Certificate Program in Primary Care Behavioral Health
  The Certificate Program in Primary Care Behavioral Health is a training endeavor for behavioral health professionals who wish to work in primary care settings. This training is particularly targeted to prepare behavioral health professionals for the Patient Centered Medical Home model.

• University of Washington AIMS Academy Integrated Behavioral Health Certificate Program
  In partnership with the University of Washington Professional & Continuing Education, the AIMS Center has created a Certificate Program in Integrated Behavioral Health. This online learning opportunity consists of three in-depth courses (90 contact hours) offered over six months.

If you are aware of a certificate program that you would like to be posted here, please let us know.