Mental health professionals
- Children with High Acuity Needs Project
- “Everything started when…”: Illuminating Rupture as a Sensemaking Catalyst in Formerly Fostered, Emerging Adults’ Narratives
- 2023 State Legislation Issue Brief Series: Trends in State Policy: Youth Mental Health
- A Family-Based Mental Health Navigator Intervention for Youth in the Child Welfare System: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
- A human-centered vision for improving the mental health care ecosystem
- A National Agenda for Children’s Mental Health
- A National Study of the Impact of Outpatient Mental Health Services for Children in Long Term Foster Care
- A Need to Know: Enhancing Adoption Competence among Mental Health Providers
- Access in Brief: Behavioral Health Services for Youth in Foster Care
- Access to Care Ranking 2024
- Acute Care Children’s Hospital Survey
- Acute Care Children’s Hospital Survey
- Addressing Child Trauma
- Addressing Especially Challenging Problems with Youth and Families
- Addressing the Complex Needs of Youth
- Addressing the Impact of Trauma Before Diagnosing Mental Illness in Child Welfare
- Addressing the Mental Health Effects of Foster Care
- Adoption Competence Primers for Various Audiences
- Adoption Competency: A Brief Introduction
- Adoption Competency: Building an Empirical Foundation
- Adoption Competent Mental Health Professionals: An Overview
- Adoption Competent Therapy and Trauma-Informed Care
- Adoptive Parent Competencies
- Advancing Access to Mental Health Services through Single Session Interventions (Overview Sessions)
- Advancing community health worker models to support youth and families’ mental health
- Advancing mental health parity to ensure children’s access to care
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
- All I Did Was Sleep’: Despite Years of Damning Reports, States Across the Country Fail To Rein in Psych Meds for Foster Youth
- An Introduction to the Child Welfare Community Collaborations Grantees and Strategies
- Are We Practicing What We Preach? Family Partnership in Residential Care
- Arizona Mercy Care
- Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Toolkit
- Assessing and Addressing Attachment Challenges in Children and Parents
- Assessment Through the Adoption/Guardianship Lens
- Attachment-Based Family Therapy Training (ABFT)
- Behavioral Health in Colorado: Putting People First
- Behavioral Health Initiatives by State
- Behavioral Health Services Outcomes That Matter Most to Caregivers of Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Mental Health Needs
- Behavioral Health Services Outcomes That Matter Most to Caregivers of Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Mental Health Needs
- Best and Promising Practices for the Implementation of Zero Suicide
- Braiding Federal Funding to Expand Access to Quality Early Care and Education and Early Childhood Supports and Services: A Tool for States and Local Communities
- Brainspotting: The Preferred Power Therapy for Adoption
- Building an Adoption Competent Workforce
- Building and Sustaining a Comprehensive Mental Health System of Care
- Burnout in Mental Health Services: A Review of the Problem and Its Remediation
- Burnout in Mental Health Services: A Review of the Problem and Its Remediation
- Care at Home for Children with Serious Emotional Disorders
- Caring for Each Other: What it Takes to Promote Mental Health and Well-Being
- Center for Workforce Solutions: Crosswalk of National Behavioral Health Workforce Recommendations
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs)
- Child and Family Service Reviews: A Factsheet for Mental Health Professionals
- Child Health and Development Institute
- Child Mental Health Initiative (CMHI) Needs Assessment Template and Guidelines
- Child Welfare Training Tipsheets
- ChildFirst
- Childhood Trust Events Survey and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
- Children with Traumatic Separation: Information for Professionals
- Children’s Services: Mississippi Department of Mental Health
- Children’s Behavioral Health – Promising Practices in Tribal Communities
- Children’s Mental Health: Chapter Action Kit
- Cognitive Therapy for Suicidal Patients (CT-SP)
- Collaborating Between Child Welfare and Mental Health
- Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)
- Colorado’s I Matter Program-Youth Mental Health
- Community Health Worker and Peer Support Specialist Workforce Policy
- Comparison of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt and suicide in children and young people in care and non-care populations: Systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence
- Connecticut Plan 4 Children
- Contemporary Attachment and Bonding Research: Implications for American Indian/Alaska Native Children and their Service Providers
- Continuum of Family Partnership: What Does it Look Like in Residential Care?
- Core Competencies for Peer Workers in Behavioral Health Services
- Culture is Healing
- Data Sharing for Child Welfare Agencies and Medicaid Toolkit
- Data Sharing: Courts and Child Welfare
- Developing an innovative pediatric integrated mental health care program: interdisciplinary team successes and challenges
- Development of Culture Forward: A Strengths and Culture-based Tool to Protect Our Native Youth from Suicide
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Directory of Therapies
- Do School-Based Health Models Expand Your Community Reach? Yes!
- Does mental health screening and assessment in child welfare improve mental health service receipt, child safety, and permanence for children in out-of-home care? An evaluation of the Gateway CALL demonstration
- Driving Change in Adoption
- Driving Change in Adoption
- Effects of the Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) on Treatment Quality and Effectiveness, a Brief Summary
- Effects of Training for Adoption Competency on the Quality and Effectiveness of Treatment with Adoptive Families
- Emotional Wellness Checklist
- Engagement of Parents as Agents of Healing
- Engaging Families in Child Welfare and Mental Health Services Part One
- Engaging Families in Child Welfare and Mental Health Services Webinar Part Two
- Engaging Families in Systems of Care
- EQ2 for direct care staff
- Establishing a Level Foundation for Life: Mental Health Begins in Early Childhood
- Establishing and Using Bidirectional Data Sharing
- Evidence-Based Policymaking and Advocacy
- Examining the mental health indicators and service needs of children living with foster families
- Experts by Experience: How Engaging People with Lived Experience Can Improve Social Services
- Exploring Barriers to Mental Health Care in the U.S.
- Exploring Barriers to Mental Health Care in the US
- Exploring Medication for Adopted Children
- Family Peer Support Specialist Resources
- Family-Driven Resources
- Five-Year Trends in US Children’s Health and Well-being, 2016-2020
- Foster Care Centers of Excellence
- Foster Youth and Alumni Priorities on Mental Health
- Four Phases of Technical Assistance
- From ACEs to Action: Why Adoption Competency is a Strategic Intervention for Children and Families Impacted by Child Welfare
- From Complexity to Connection: A Toolkit for Transforming Care for Children and Families
- Glossary for State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
- Healing of the Canoe Curriculum for Youth
- Healthy Outcomes: Key takeaways from the 2024 National Council for Mental Wellbeing Conference
- Helping Adoptive Families Thrive
- Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Traumatic Events
- Helping Children Form Attachments
- Helping Children Thrive: Strategies to Support Children’s Mental Health
- Helping Mental Health Providers Achieve the Outcomes That Matter Most
- Helping to Heal: Conversations About Trauma Informed Principles
- HHS Hub About Telehealth
- How can child protection agencies use telehealth to increase service access for children and families?
- How can data sharing across child- and family-serving systems be implemented effectively?
- How can parents and caregivers be supported in developing a positive co-parenting relationship?
- How childhood adversity shapes brain and behavior
- How do Tribal health, Medicaid, and child welfare systems interact?
- How Tribal Placements Benefit Native Children placed in Foster Care
- Identity Formation During the Adolescent Years
- Impact of Child Welfare Related Trauma
- Implementation and Mental Health Outcomes of a Service Cascade Linking Child Welfare and Children’s Mental Health: A Case Study of the Gateway CALL Demonstration
- Implementing Peer Supports in Mental Health Services: A Perspective from the Field
- Improving Access to Behavioral Health Through Removing Barriers–Utah
- Improving Access to Care through Creating Certified Family Peer Specialists Across the Lifespan
- Improving Access to Children’s Mental Health
- Improving Access to Mental Health Services in Low-Income Communities
- Improving Information Sharing for Youth in Foster Care
- Improving the Mental Health of Mississippi’s Children & Youth
- Improving the Mental Health of Mississippi’s Children & Youth
- Increases Found in Preteen Suicide Rate
- Increasing Access to Behavioral Health Services: Opportunities at the State and Federal Level
- Increasing Permanency: Seven Principles for Building Emotionally Stable Foster & Adoptive Families
- Increasing Permanency: Seven Principles for Building Emotionally Stable Foster & Adoptive Families
- Indiana Behavioral Health Commission
- Indiana Children with High Acuity Needs Project
- Indiana’s Children with High Acuity Needs Project
- Inducement: Adoption Language We Must Understand
- Informal and Formal Family Peer Support: The Impact and Evidence
- Information about the Three NTI curriculums
- Integrated Care for Kids Model
- Interactive Screening Program
- Invest Time and Trust in The National Center
- Invest Time and Trust in The National Center
- Key Differences Between TAC-Trained and Non-TAC-Trained Clinicians
- Key Programmatic Elements of Father Engagement to Promote Self-Sufficiency (KEEP Fathers Engaged)
- Laying the Foundation for Change
- Lead Family Coordinators: Roles, Responsibilities, and Opportunities
- Leading State Priorities and Considerations for Youth Crisis Receiving and Stabilization Facilities
- Learning Collaboratives: a Strategy for Quality Improvement and Implementation in Behavioral Health
- Let’s Talk About It: Supporting Grandfamilies’ Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being
- Leveraging telehealth to provide equitable pediatric mental health care
- Leveraging telehealth to provide equitable pediatric mental health care
- Lived Experience (LEx) Leadership: Critical to Being Trauma Informed
- Living and Working with Kin: A Real Life Experience
- Mandated Report on Therapeutic Foster Care
- Many States Face Shortage of Mental Health Providers
- Many States Face Shortage of Mental Health Providers
- McIntyre v. Howard, Progress of Kansas Department of Children and Families, Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services, and Kansas Department of Health and Environment (January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023)
- Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission
- Medicaid Behavioral Health Care Use Among Children in Foster Care
- Medicaid for Children with Special Needs
- Medicaid Opportunities to Support Youth Leaving Incarceration
- Medicaid Reimbursement for Peer Support Services A Detailed Analysis of Rates, Processes, and Procedures
- Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Adoptive and Guardianship Families
- Mental and Behavioral Health Needs of Children in Foster Care
- Mental Health and Cross-System Collaboration
- Mental Health Care Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs)
- Mental Health Challenges in Caring for American Indians and Alaska Natives
- Mental Health First Aid
- Mental Health Professional’s Role in Helping Parents Support Positive Identity Formation
- Mental Health Professional’s Role in Supporting Youth Search and Reunion
- Mental Health Professional’s Role in Working with Children and Youth to Support Positive Identity Formation
- Mental Health Promotion and Prevention
- Mental Health Screenings
- Mental Health Services for Children Placed in Foster Care: An Overview of Current Challenges
- Mental Health Training Tipsheets
- MHP: Achieving and Maintaining Permanence Is Key to Well-Being and Mental Health
- MHP: Assessing Trauma Exposure and Its Impact on Children
- MHP: Core Clinical Issues in Adoption and their Link to Mental Health
- MHP: Course Overview and The Need for Adoption Competency
- MHP: Family Life is Paramount in Healing: Engaging and Working with Adoption and Guardianship Families
- MHP: Guiding Principles That Support Effective Mental Health Practice
- MHP: Impact of Abandonment and Rejection on Children’s Mental Health
- MHP: Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment of Adopted Children’s Mental Health Needs
- MHP: Maintaining Openness and Connections
- MHP: Matching Child and Family Needs After Permanency with Effective Services to Maintain Stability
- MHP: Models for Addressing Complex Trauma
- MHP: Pathways to Adoption and Guardianship Today
- MHP: Post-Adoption Therapeutic Services: Working with Families Across the Life Cycle and Across Systems to Maintain Stability
- MHP: Preparing and Helping Parents to Support Their Child’s Grief
- MHP: The Big Picture: Understanding the Factors that Shape Children’s Adjustment in Adoptive and Guardianship Families
- MHP: The Impact of Ambiguous Loss and Unresolved Grief on Emotional Adjustment and Mental Health
- MHP: The Language of Adoption
- MHP: Tools and Techniques for Helping Children Integrate Their Life Stories
- MHP: Traumatic Experiences of Children Achieving Permanency through Adoption and Guardianship
- MHP: Treatment Goals for Remediating the Consequences of Trauma
- MHP: Understanding Attachment as the Foundation for Child Development and Mental Health
- MHP: Understanding Loss and Grief Issues in Adoption in the Context of Developmental Stages, Emotional Adjustments, and Mental Health of Children & Youth
- MHP: Understanding Loss and Grief Issues in Adoption in the Context of Developmental Stages, Emotional Adjustments, and Mental Health of Children & Youth
- MHP: Understanding the Impact of Early Childhood Experiences on Mental Health
- MHP: Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Children’s Mental Health
- MHP: Understanding the Stages of Grief in Adoption and Helping Youth Manage Their Losses
- National Center for Workforce Analysis: Behavioral Health Workforce 2023
- National Guidelines for Child and Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Care
- National Needs Assessment: Mental Health Services for People with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities
- National Rural Adolescent and Child Health (NRACH) ECHO Training Center
- Navigating a Broken System: The State of Mental Health in Child Welfare
- New Medicaid Opportunities to Support Youth Leaving Incarceration: Building Community Well-Being and Advancing Prevention Efforts
- New York Case Study: Supporting Youth Behavioral Health through Crisis Receiving and Stabilization Facilities
- New York City Stands Out as a Rare Local Agency Tallying Foster Youth on Psychotropics. What Do the Numbers Reveal?
- November 2025: Improving Permanency Through Advancing Adoption Competency
- NTI in Practice: What National Data Reveal About Engagement and Impact
- NTI Informational Webinar
- NTI Mental Health Professionals’ Core Competencies
- NTI Toolkit
- NTI Transfer of Learning Guide for Mental Health Professionals in Private or Group Practice
- Office of Individual and Family Affairs
- Oklahoma Adoption Competency Network
- Oklahoma’s Journey to Adoption Competence
- Oklahoma’s Journey to Adoption Competency
- Oversight of Psychotropic Medications Prescribed to Children in Foster Care
- Overview of the National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services
- Overview: Identity Matters
- Overview: Identity Matters
- Parent Guidance
- Partnering for Success: Factors Impacting Implementation of a Cross-Systems Collaborative model Between Behavioral Health and Child Welfare
- Pediatric ACEs and Related Life-events Screener (PEARLS)
- Pediatric and Suicide Prevention Experts Partner to Create Blueprint for Preventing Youth Suicide
- Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program
- Peer Support Services Technical Assistance Center
- Perceptions among child welfare staff when modifying a child mental health intervention to be implemented in child welfare services
- Practice Models for Enhancing Parent-Child Attachment
- Practice Models for Working with Parents and their Children to Address Children’s Complex Attachment Challenges
- Practice-Informed Conversations: Real World Perspectives on Rural Mental Health
- Prevalence and Characteristics of Children Entering Foster Care to Receive Behavioral Health or Disability Services
- Preventing Child Welfare System Involvement
- Project Aware: school-based mental health program
- Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being in Schools
- Proportion of US Counties and Population Served by Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics
- Protecting Youth Mental Health: Part II–Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Care
- Protecting Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory
- Providing Peer Support for Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families
- Psychologists work to support children and parents in the child welfare system, but more is needed
- Psychotropic Medication and Psychotropic Polypharmacy Among Children and Adolescents in the US Child Welfare System
- Raise the Bar for Children’s Mental Health: Strategies to Sustain Innovation and Access to School-based Services
- Red Lake Nation “Uplifting Our Relatives”
- Redesigning Medicaid: The Key to Solving Our Children’s Mental Health Crisis
- Relational Healing for Relational Trauma: Is there anything new the neuroscience can tell us?
- Required Elements of Intensive Technical Assistance
- Research-Practice Partnerships for Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare and Child Mental Health: A White Paper
- Residential Treatment Providers and Adoption Competence
- Resources for Children
- Rhode Island DCYF Listening and Learning Tour
- Right Help, Right Now Program 1-year Update
- Risk of suicide attempt in adopted and nonadopted offspring
- Rupture and Repair: Emotions, Attunement, and Attachment
- Rural Health Transformation Program: State Focus on Behavioral Health
- SAMHSA Suicide Prevention Resources
- Sample Memorandum of Agreements
- Science for Behavioral Health Systems Change: Evolving Research-Policy-Public Partnerships
- Screening for trauma and behavioral health needs in child welfare: Practice implications for promoting placement stability
- Screening for trauma and behavioral health needs in child welfare: Practice implications for promoting placement stability
- Self-taught
- Separation, Grief, and Loss
- SMART Therapy Video Resources
- Snapshot: Behavioral Health Integration in Medicaid Managed Care
- Social Determinants of Health in Rural Communities Toolkit
- Somethings: Free Mental Health Support for Teens in North Carolina
- Specifying cross-system collaboration strategies for implementation: a multi-site qualitative study with child welfare and behavioral health organizations
- Specifying cross-system collaboration strategies for implementation: a multi-site qualitative study with child welfare and behavioral health organizations
- State Learning and Action Collaborative
- State of American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Families Report
- State of American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Families Report
- State Policies that Impact the Design of Children’s Mental Health Services: A Modified Delphi Study
- State Strategies to Support an Aligned Behavioral Health Continuum of Care for Youth
- Steps Toward Change: Replacing Trauma Bonds with Healing Relationships
- Strategies for Partnering with Child Welfare Agencies
- Strengthening CCBHC Workforce Capacity:Partnership with the National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services
- Stress and the Healing Power of Connection
- Study Reveals Lack of Access as Root Cause for Mental Health Crisis in America
- Suicidal Ideation
- Suicide Prevention in Child Welfare
- Suicide Prevention Organizations
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center-Foster Care
- Supervisor Coaching and Activity Guide for Mental Health Professionals
- Supporting Foster Youth and Their Family Connections: Policy and Practice Recommendations
- TAC Effectiveness Study: Participant Feedback
- Teaching Self-Regulation Skills through Therapeutic Parenting
- Telehealth for Rural Areas
- The 3-5-7 Model—Helping Children Work Through Grief
- The Biggest Barriers to Accessing Youth Mental Health Care
- The Center for Communities That Care
- The Emerging Field of Behavioral Health Paraprofessionals
- The Five Tenets of Effective Cross-System Collaboration
- The Five Tenets of Successful Cross-System Collaboration
- The Future of Behavioral Health Services for Youth with Foster Care Experience
- The Future of Behavioral Health Services for Youth with Foster Care Experience
- The Impact of Adoption
- The Impact of Child Welfare on Youth Mental Health
- The impact of loss, grief and relational connection for youth in foster care
- The Impact of NTI Training on Your Clinical Practice
- The Impact of Placement Stability on Behavioral Well-Being for Children in Foster Care
- The Implications of Attachment Challenges in Treatment
- The Importance of Adoption-Competent Therapy for Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Care Families
- The kids are not all right: The urgent need to expand effective behavioral health services for children and youth
- The Long-Term Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children’s Distress Trajectories in Adulthood
- The National Center and Cross-system Collaboration
- The New Jersey Pediatric Psychiatry Collaborative
- The Role of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics in Crisis Services and Systems
- The Role of Specialized Managed Care in Addressing the Intersection of Child Welfare Reform and Behavioral Health Transformation
- The State of Mental Health in America
- The State of Mental Health in America
- The Trauma Therapist podcast
- The Urgent Need to Recognize and Reduce Risk of Suicide for Children in the Welfare System
- The Value of NTI for Child Welfare and Mental Health System Collaboration
- Therapeutic Parenting Strategies for Connecting with Children and Youth Who Push Parents Away
- Therapist training in evidence-based interventions for mental health: A systematic review of training approaches and outcomes
- Therapy Chat podcast
- Tipsheet for Mental Health Professionals–NTI Module 3: Attachment, Child Development, and Mental Health
- Tipsheet for Mental Health Professionals–NTI Module 4: Impact of Grief and Loss on Children’s Mental Health
- Tipsheet for MH Professionals–NTI Module 2: Understanding & Addressing the Complex Mental Health Needs of Children in Adoptive and Guardianship Families
- Tipsheet for MH Professionals–NTI Module 2: Understanding & Addressing the Complex Mental Health Needs of Children in Adoptive and Guardianship Families
- Tipsheet for MH–NTI Module 1: The Case for Adoption Competency
- Tipsheets for Mental Health Professionals–NTI Modules 5-10
- Top (and Bottom) 10 States For Behavioral Health Staff Shortages
- Training for Adoption Competency
- Training for Adoption Competency Effectiveness Study-December 2025
- Transforming and Expanding Access to Mental Health Care in Urban Pediatrics
- Trauma
- Trauma Screen Time Training
- Trauma-Informed Cross-System Collaboration
- Trends in Mental and Behavioral Health Risks in Adolescents: 1999-2021
- Trends in Mental, Behavioral, and Developmental Disorders Among Children and Adolescents in the US, 2016–2021
- Tribal Communities and Family Resilience Today
- Tribal Listening Session on the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
- Understanding Child Welfare
- Understanding the U.S. Behavioral Health Workforce Shortage
- Understanding Trauma and Healing in Adults
- Understanding Trauma-Informed Care to Build Parent Resilience
- Unique Assessment Issues when Working with Relative Caregivers
- Using a Collaborative Workspace to Support a Community of Learners
- Using Clinical Assessment to Enhance Adoption Success
- Utilizing HOPE and Strengthening Families within systems
- Utilizing the Assessment in Goal Setting and Treatment Planning and Effective Practice Models with Adoptive and Guardianship Families
- Vermont Mental Health Payment Reform
- Virginia Mental Health Access Program
- Virginia Safe and Sound Task Force
- Virginia’s Right Help, Right Now Program
- Warning Signs of Suicide
- Washington State Children and Youth Multi-System Care Project
- We Think Twice: Mental Health Resources for Teens
- Wellness: Mind, Body, Spirit: Signs & Symptoms of Suicide Ideation
- Wellness: Mind, Body, Spirit: Signs & Symptoms of Suicide Ideation
- West Virginia Children’s Behavioral Health Services
- What are examples of Tribal behavioral health and traditional healing programs?
- What Is Child Welfare? A Guide for Behavioral and Mental Health Professionals
- White Earth Behavioral Health Programs
- Why NTI Training is Important for Mental Health Professionals
- Wisconsin Case Study: Supporting Youth Mental Health through Crisis Stabilization Facilities
- Workforce Trends: Behavioral Health in Focus
- Young People and Families Share Insights to Mental Health Professionals
- Young People in Advocacy: How We Can Help Elevate Youth Voices in Mental Health Advocacy
- Young People With Lived Experience in Foster Care Recommend Improvements to Mental Health Supports
- Youth and Young Adult Resources
- Youth In Crisis: Supporting Youth Through School and Clinic-based Mental Health Programs
- Youth Mental Health
- Youth Mental Health Academy
- Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare
- Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare
- Youth Mental Health and Well-being in Faith and Community Settings: Practicing Connectedness
- Zero Suicide Resource Collection