Reference Library

Reference Library

Resource materials

• Strategies for Improving Fidelity in the National Evidence-Based Practices Project
  
  
• Shared Decision Making and Medication Management in the Recovery Process
  
  
• Practice Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Behavioral Health Care (Connecticut DMHAS)
  
  
• National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery, SAMHSA
  
  
• Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board's Report of the Mental Health Day Support Work Group Recovery, Employment and Rehabilitation Services - 2003
  
  
• Testimony to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee on Reform of Mental Health benefits under Medicare. - March 2007
  
  
• Mind and Body Reunited: Improving Care at the Behavioral and Primary Healthcare Interface, Prepared for American College of Mental Health Administration Summit, March 2007
  
  
• 2007 Overview of Community Services Delivery in Virginia
  
  
• Fairfax County Advisory Social Services Board 2006 Annual Report
  
  
• Consensus Among Stakeholders: A Call for Change in Virginia's Involuntary Civil Admission Process
  
  
• Interagency Collaboration on Children & Youth Services
  
  
• Building Systems of Care: A Primer - Sheila A. Pires - National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health Center for Child Health and Mental Health Policy Georgetown University Child Development Center
  
  
• Manderscheid on Medicaid - Behavioral Healthcare - June 2007
  
  
• An Action Plan for Behavioral Health Workforce Development, 2007 - SAMHSA, Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce
  
• Assisting States to Plan for Pandemic Influenza - Constella Group White Paper- December, 2006
  
  
• Recovery, Empowerment & Self Determination: A Vision for the future of Public Mental Health Systems - Commission on Mental Health Law Reform - James S. Reinhard, M.D., Commissioner, DMHMRSAS - October 12, 2006
  
  
• Access to Publicly Funded Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services in Virginia - Commission on Mental Health Law Reform - James W. Stewart, III - Inspector General - October 12-13, 2006
  
  
• National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) Medical Directors Council - Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness - October, 2006
  
  
• Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness - National Association of State Mental Health Program Directs - Medical Director's Council - July, 2006
  
  
• Helping Veterans Return: Community, Family, and Job - Constella Group White Paper - June 20, 2006
  
  
• Preparing for Pandemic Avian Influenza: Ensuring Mental Health Services and Mitigating Panic -Constella Group White Paper- March, 2006
  
  
• Transforming Housing for People with Psychiatric Disabilities, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services - 2006
  
  
• Action Plan for Behavioral Health Workforce Development - 2006
  
  
• Transforming Mental Health Care in America - The Federal Action Agenda: First Steps - 2006
  
  
• Congruencies in Increased Mortality Rates, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Causes of Death Among Public Mental Health Clients in Eight States - article by Craig W. Colton, PhD and Ronald W. Manderscheid, PhD - 2006
  
  
• Institute of Medicine of the National Academies - Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions - Quality Chasm Series - Nov. 2005
  
  
• Building Bridges - Mental Health Consumers and Primary Care Representatives in Dialogue - 2005
  
  
• Mental Health, United States, 2004 U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services
   
• Balancing Measures: Best Practices in Performance Management by the National Partnership for Reinventing Government - August, 1999
  
  
• Institute of Medicine of the National Academies - Crossing the Quality Chasm: The IOM Health Care Quality Initiative
  
  
• Make Depression Care a National Priority
  
  
• 2005 Fairfax County Youth Survey Report
  

• The Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce
  
  
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
  
  
• New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
  
  
• National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
  
  
• Network of Care
  
  
• The Commonwealth Fund - Promising Practices in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
  
  
• The Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment
  
  
• National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors
  
  
• Mental Health America (formerly National Mental Health Association)
  
  
• Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
  
  
• Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services - Office of Community Contracting - Community Services Performance Contracts
  
  
• State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services