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Digital Health Navigator Training

Support Digital Literacy to Advance Clinical Care, Health Equity, and Recovery

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Critical Components for Understanding Veterans with Serious Mental Illness

Fact sheet

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Our clinical experts can answer questions about serious mental illness (SMI) from all mental health clinicians.

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First-line Treatments for Clozapine-induced Drooling

Videos

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Talking to Individuals and their Families About a New Diagnosis: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

Downloadable guide

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Building New Horizons: Opening Career Pathways for Peers with Criminal Justice Backgrounds

Toolkit

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Culturally Competent Care for Black American Adults with Serious Mental Illness: Addressing Barriers and Enhancing Clinical Practice

Downloadable Guide

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Knowledge Base

Knowledge Base

Find answers to your questions about serious mental illness (SMI). Browse by topic or simply type in a question. Our Knowledge Base may find you text, resources, links, and more.

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Centers of Excellence and Resource Hubs

Learn about SMI Adviser’s Centers of Excellence and Resource Hubs. They provide FREE resources, education, consultation, tools, and more.

Clozapine Center of Excellence
Education, resources, and evidence-based answers to help you optimize the use of Clozapine

Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) Center of Excellence
Education, resources, and evidence-based answers to help you optimize the use of LAIs

SMI 101 Resource Hub
Resources for mental health clinicians who want to build their foundational knowledge and skills for work with individuals who have serious mental illness (SMI)

COVID-19 Resource Hub
To help support the mental health community during the COVID-19 crisis, SMI Adviser provides timely and authoritative resources, education, consultation, tools and more. Let SMI Adviser help you navigate this evolving situation. This page offers guidance on how to support your patients and practice.

Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Resource Hub
At this resource hub, you can download a foundational white paper on implementing AOT, access online training modules on establishing and maintaining successful AOT programs, and view other related resources.

SAMHSA Funded Centers and Initiatives

SAMHSA funds a variety of initiatives that offer tools, training, and technical assistance to clinicians. Find education that enhances your practice, answers that support your clinical decisions, and resources that foster recovery for individuals and families.

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About Our Initiative

SMI Adviser is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and administered by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The APA works closely on this project with a team of experts from 30 other mental health organizations. This team includes individuals, families, clinical experts, peers, and policy makers.

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The Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) is an international, multidisciplinary resource for professionals in the addictions treatment and recovery services field.

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The Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network disseminates and implements technology transfer of evidence-based practices for mental disorders into the field.

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The Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network provides training and technical assistance services to the substance abuse prevention field including professionals/pre-professionals, organizations, and others in the prevention community.

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This SUD-Training initiative aims to provide an introduction to the fundamental elements needed for health professionals, including medicine, nursing, physician associate, social work, pharmacy and public health, while simultaneously cultivating interprofessional learning across disciplines.

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Provider Clinical Support System (PCSS) provides evidence-based training and resources to give healthcare providers the skills and knowledge they need to treat patients with opioid use disorder.

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Focus PHI develops and increases access to simple, clear, and actionable educational resources, training, and technical assistance for consumers and their families, and individuals at the front-lines of care.

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The African American Behavioral Health Center of Excellence aims to transform behavioral health services for African Americans, making them: Safer, More effective, More accessible, More inclusive More welcoming, More engaging, and More culturally appropriate and responsive.

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The Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity implements change strategies within mental health and substance use disorder treatment systems to address disparities effecting LGBTQ+ people across all stages of life.

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The E4 Center measurably advances training and workforce capacity with a specific focus on the community-based implementation of evidence-based practices and programs for vulnerable older adults who experience the greatest behavioral and physical health disparities in the nation.

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The Homeless and Housing Resource Center provides high-quality, no-cost training for health and housing professionals in evidence-based practices that contributes to housing stability, recovery, and an end to homelessness.

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National Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (NCEED) is the nation’s first center of excellence dedicated to eating disorders. Its mission is to advance education and training of healthcare providers and to promote public awareness of eating disorders and eating disorder treatment.

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The National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) is the nation’s first SAMHSA funded Center of Excellence focused on supporting families and caregivers of children, regardless of their age, who experience serious mental illness and/or substance use challenges.

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The Peer Recovery Center of Excellence has four focus areas: Clinical Integration of Peers into Non-Traditional Settings, Recovery Community Organization Capacity Building, Peer Workforce Development, and Evidence-Based Practice & Practice-Based Evidence Dissemination.

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