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  • Leveraging Medicaid to Enhance School-Based Mental Health Services

    Medicaid | Issue Brief | Publication | March 2024

    With new flexibilities in Medicaid funding, states and school districts have a unique opportunity to meet the increasingly critical mental health needs of young people in the United States.

  • Transforming the Role of Opioid Treatment Programs

    Mental Health & Substance Use | Issue Brief | Publication | September 2023

    Recommendations on re-envisioning the SUD treatment system to encompass patient-centered access to methadone treatment, along with a full array of recovery supports.

  • Boosting the Power of Harm Reduction: Creating a Comprehensive and Culturally Responsive System of Care Serving People Experiencing Homelessness with Substance Use Disorders

    Homelessness | Mental Health & Substance Use | Issue Brief | Publication | November 2022

    With drug overdose deaths rising precipitously and adding to the risks already faced by people experiencing homelessness, it is time to combine our best knowledge and most effective interventions.

  • Federal Policy Recommendations to Support State Implementation of Medicaid-Funded Mobile Crisis Programs

    Medicaid | Mental Health & Substance Use | Issue Brief | Publication | January 2022

    In the context of new federal funding policies and the recent launch of the 988 behavioral health crisis line, this brief identifies important issues in mobile crisis implementation and describes ways that federal agencies can support state and local efforts.

  • Implementation of the 988 Hotline: A Framework for State and Local Systems Planning

    Mental Health & Substance Use | Issue Brief | Publication | October 2021

    988 presents a unique opportunity for the behavioral health system, law enforcement, 911 systems, and other stakeholders to strengthen crisis response capacity and to provide people experiencing a mental health crisis with appropriate support.

  • The Role of Permanent Supportive Housing in Determining Psychiatric Inpatient Bed Capacity

    Mental Health & Substance Use | Olmstead & Community Integration | Issue Brief | Publication | November 2018

    Authored by TAC Executive Director Kevin Martone and Senior Consultant Sherry Lerch, this is second in the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors' 2017 series of ten briefs addressing the question: "What Is the Inpatient Bed Need if you Have a Best Practice Continuum of Care?" The…