The Mid-America Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (Mid-America MHTTC) serves the training and programmatic needs of behavioral health providers and programs in the four-state area of Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas.The initial focus of the Mid-America MHTTC has been upon the integration of behavioral health in primary care. Training and consultation are available encompassing assessment of clinic strengths and needs, infrastructure requirements, training for providers and administrators, and development of organizational supports to ensure sustainability. Located at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Behavioral Health Education Center (or BHECN), the Mid-America MHTTC also provides training programs in School Mental Health, Severe Mental Illness and Workforce Development.

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•  Demands for training in School Mental Health have dominated the first year of Mid-America MHTTC activities. Using the collaborative curriculum devised by the National Center on School Mental Health, universal training presentations have been made at conferences in Iowa and Nebraska and two additional sessions are scheduled for September. Targeted training also occurred for 55 School MH personnel at a “Train the Trainers” event in June.

• Working the CMS Comprehensive Primary Care plus (CPC+) pilot programs, a series of monthly interactive webinars and conference presentations were made in April through July to administrators and behavioral health providers regarding the integration of behavioral health into primary care practices.

•  Plans for the future include a Family Support conference for the families of individuals with severe mental illness, training in Permanent Supported Housing for persons with SMI, a multi-state conference on Integrated BH Care, and intensive training and consultation in Multi -Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for several self-selected school districts that will serve as model sites for future trainings.

The Mountain Plains Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (Mountain Plains MHTTC) is committed to providing evidence based training in mental health practices to providers and school personnel serving persons with serious emotional disturbance and serious mental illness in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.  Due to the predominantly rural and geographically remote nature of the Mountain Plains states, the area of focus is providing training and technical assistance to a rural mental health workforce and addressing the unique challenges of providing care in rural and remote settings. The vision of the Mountain Plains MHTTC is to support the inclusion of evidence based practices into the work of mental health providers with the goal of increasing access to care for all persons living in rural communities.  The Mountain Plains MHTTC is a partnership between the University of North Dakota (UND) and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE).

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•  At the upcoming annual conference of the National Association of Rural Mental Health (NARMH) August 26 through 29, MHTTCs will be providing a variety of timely and relevant trainings. The Mountain Plains, Mid America, and South Southwest MHTTCs have partnered to provide an in-depth introduction to the MHTTC network and all of the services and supports that the MHTTCs can provide to the behavioral health workforce. The Mountain Plains and Mid America MHTTC are partnering to train attendees on supervision skills and approaches, and the Mountain Plains MHTTC will be presenting on advocating for school based mental health. Click here to learn more.

•  The Mountain Plains MHTTC is providing an intensive, two-day Training of Trainers event to promote competence in implementing trauma informed principles in schools.The 16 hour training will prepare professionals to conduct the 8-hour Trauma Responsive Practices in Education training developed by the Colorado Office of Behavioral Health. The in-person training event, held in Boulder, Colorado on September 24 and 25, will cover all aspects of creating a trauma informed learning environment in schools.

•  The Mountain Plains MHTTC recently published the Promoting Positive Mental Health in Rural Schools guide. This guide provides resources specific to addressing the unique mental health training and technical assistance needs of schools serving rural and remote communities. School administrators, faculty, and support staff are facing increasing pressure to respond to a host of unmet mental health needs of students in K-12 and higher education. In response, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a resource to assist states and schools in addressing mental health and substance use disorders. Click here to download a copy of the guide.

 

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