What We Do

Technical Assistance

Technical Assistance Partnership:

www.tapartnership.org

About the Technical Assistance Partnership
The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (TA Partnership) provides technical assistance to system of care communities that are currently funded to operate the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. The mission of the TA Partnership is “helping communities build systems of care to meet the mental health needs of children, youth, and families.”

This technical assistance center operates under contract from the federal Child, Adolescent and Family Branch, Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The TA Partnership is a collaboration between two mission-driven organizations:

• The National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health — dedicated to effective family leadership and advocacy to improve the quality of life of children with mental health needs and their families.
• The American Institutes for Research — committed to improving the lives of families and communities through the translation of research into best practice and policy, and
• The TA Partnership includes family members and professionals with extensive practice experience employed by either the American Institutes for Research or the National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health. Through this partnership, we model the family-professional relationships that are essential to our work.

TA Partnership Newsletter (http://www.tapartnership.org/newsletter.php)

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The TA Partnership monthly newsletter contains current child and family mental health news, research updates, funding opportunities, and event listings. Each issue also contains articles that feature innovative and promising activities from system of care communities around the country. To sign up for the TA Partnership newsletter, send an email to tapartnership@air.org.

• View the current issue
• View the archived articles

CARING FOR EVERY CHILD’S MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGN

http://www.systemsofcare.samhsa.gov/TechnicalAssistance/smc.aspx

National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health / National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors / Vanguard Communications

Since its inception in 1994, the Caring for Every Child’s Mental Health Campaign has supported system of care communities through the strategic use of social marketing and communications strategies. Funded by a contract with the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program, the Campaign operates through a partnership between the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD), Vanguard Communications (Vanguard) and the National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health (the Federation). The team works together to address the needs of diverse system of care communities using social marketing and communications techniques that are youth- and family-driven, culturally competent and responsive to individual community needs.

The overarching purpose of the Campaign is to stimulate support for a comprehensive system of care approach to children’s mental health services. To accomplish this, the Campaign has set the following primary goals:

• Reduce stigma associated with mental illness and promote mental health.
• Use social marketing strategies to help increase the likelihood that children and youth with SED and their families are appropriately served and treated.
• Increase awareness of mental health needs and services for children and youth among mental health providers, SOC communities, intermediary groups/organizations, and the public.
• Demonstrate to communities that the mental health needs of children and youth with SED are best met through the utilization of systems of care.
• Use social marketing strategies to help build capacity within SOC communities to sustain services and support to children and youth with SED and their families.

ICF Macro: Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Cross Site Evaluation

http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/suicideprevention/

The NFFCMH staff member participates as a member of the technical assistance liaison team for the National Cross Site Evaluation of the GLS grantees.  Technical assistance provided to the grantees, MACRO team and Suicide Prevention Resource center through a tribal learning collaborative

Georgetown National Technical Assistance Center:

http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/

NFFCMH provides technical assistance provision with a focus on family and youth integration in all aspects of the work of the center. Facilitation, presentation, resource identification and leadership development are among the services provided. Current activities include efforts within Public Health, Reduction of Health Care Disparities, Systems Transformation, Transition Age Youth, Early Childhood, and Systems of Care.