Behavioral Health
Stronger Systems for Mental Health and Substance Use Programs
How do we help states and communities deliver behavioral health services that are accessible and effective?
Altarum works with federal agencies, states, and community partners to strengthen behavioral health systems and improve access to mental health and substance use services.
Through program evaluation, technical assistance, and system design, we help partners implement evidence-based practices that enhance care delivery across settings. We work alongside states to address workforce shortages, establish coordinated behavioral health systems, and support integration of care for mental health, substance use, physical health, and social supports. Our team turns research into tools partners can use to improve care for people with complex behavioral health needs. Our work builds the workforce and coordination needed to keep those systems viable.
With more than 25 years of behavioral health training and technical assistance experience, our work with the SAMHSA-funded Crisis Systems Response Training and Technical Assistance Center helps states, Tribes, territories, universities, and other communities develop systems that connect people in crisis to timely, effective care.
Across all of it, we advance health missions by developing the capacity partners need to sustain and improve behavioral health systems so people can access care when they need it.
Explore our work below:
Our Behavioral Health Expertise in Practice
Expanding Access to Effective Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Michigan
Altarum helped the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services launch the Recovery Incentives Pilot, building a customized contingency management curriculum and delivering statewide training to prepare providers for implementation.
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Informing Behavioral Health Policy Across Michigan
Supported by the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, Altarum conducted a series of statewide behavioral health access studies that tracked changes in access over time, evaluating access to mental health and substance use disorder services across populations, insurance types, and geographic regions.
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Strengthening Missouri's Crisis Response Workforce
Altarum partnered with the Missouri Behavioral Health Council and Missouri Department of Mental Health to design and deliver a statewide training program to build workforce capacity across Missouri's crisis response system.
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Crisis Systems Response Training and Technical Assistance Center (CSR-TTAC)
The CSR-TTAC supports organizations in building crisis response systems that are integrated, sustainable, responsive, and grounded in evidence-based practices.
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Increasing Access to Depression Treatment for Rural Adolescents
Learn how we are reducing barriers through a variety of strategies, from providing physician continuing education programs to creating a pediatric telehealth network.
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Cross-Training Family Planning and Behavioral Health Providers for Integrated Care and Improved Outcomes
By providing training across disciplines, we increased screening for both sexual and reproductive health and substance use disorder services and built sustained provider relationships.
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