General Resources

Telemedicine/Telehealth

• Center for Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions - Practical Guidelines for Video-based Online Mental Health Services
• American Medical Association - Telemedicine: Connect to Specialists and Facilitate Better Access to Care for Your Patients
• National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center- Home Telehealth
• Northeast Telehealth Resource Center-Technical Assistance on Telehealth
• Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
• Using Telehealth for Addiction Treatment
• Enhancing Care Through Virtual Visits
• Clinician's Guide to Video Platforms
• American Psychological Association - Guidelines for the Practice of Telepsychology
• Virtual Same Day Access
• Part One: How to Provide Same Day Access during a pandemic
• Part Two: Five Steps to Virtual Same Day Access
• Collaborative Documentation (CD)
• Part One: Introducing consumers to CD in a telehealth environment, including documenting your notes and updating your script
• Part Two: Demonstrating how to actually do CD with a consumer in a telehealth environment
• Part Three: Transitioning and wrapping up in a CD telehealth environment
  

Healthcare Service Delivery and Compliance

Just in Time Scheduling

HIPAA Compliance

Families USA: Health Care Payment and Delivery System Reform for Children as a Tool to Improve the Health of Vulnerable Communities

Policy

• Well Being Trust: A Policy Guide
• Families USA:  Consumers First 2021 Administrative Agenda: Policy Solutions to Strengthen the Infrastructure of U.S. Health Care Payment and Delivery
  

Schools

• Mental Health America:2020 Back to School Toolkit
• Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research- University of Massachusetts:
• School Mental Health Promotion: Supporting Children Impacted by Family and Parent Mental Health Condition
• For Families and Caregivers: Self-Care is Putting on Your Oxygen Mask First Tip Sheet
• Should I Attend College in the Fall?
• Center for Mental Health & Student/Learning Supports at UCLA
• School Practicioner Community of Practice Postings (A network for sharing and exchange)
  

Employees

• Mental Health America:
• Lead by Supporting Employee Mental Health 
• How to Recognize if Your Colleague is Struggling 
• #BeTheDifference for Your Employees with Mental Health First Aid at Work 
• How to be an Effective Listener at Work
• Four Tips to Help Manage Burnout
  

Supported Employment

• Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research- University of Massachusetts:
• Supporting Employment for Young Adults Living with Mental Health Conditions
• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: New Law Helps Youth and Young Adults Get Jobs
• 5 Ways Working Helps Me Manage My Mental Health Conditions
  

Housing, Homelessness and Supportive Housing

•  National Low Income Housing Coalition:
• Tenant Talk | Volume 12, Issue 1, which focuses on the intersection of racial and housing justice.
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD):
• HUD Daily Homelessness Resources
• Centering Equity in Times of Crisis and Uncertainty
  

Insurance

• Families USA: Misalignment Between Premiums and Coverage Generosity Imposes Heavy Cost Burdens on Consumers in Health Insurance Exchanges
• A Guide to Obtaining Insurance for Mental Health Care 
  

Social Justice, Equality, Racism, Equity and Social Determinants of Health

• The Kennedy Forum: Social Justice and Health Are Inextricably Linked
• California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies, PsychHub and the American Psychological Association: Resources for Discussions about Race
• American Hospital Association resource examines the impact of the social determinants of health on patients
• Health Equity- Asian Americans: University of Chicago: Center for Asian Health Equity
• Health Equity- Hispanic: National Hispanic Medical Association's website
• Resources from the National Association for School PsychologistsTo Advance Health Equity, Federal Policy Makers Should Build on Lessons from State Medicaid Experiments
• National Council for Mental Wellbeing: Addressing Health Equity and Racial Justice
• Faces and Voice of Recovery: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan
• The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine:COVID-19 and Black Communities
• PsychHub has compiled a document of Race, Racism and Mental Health Resources. This includes organizations, books and online resources.
• Social Determinants of Health
• What is Cultural Humility?
• Racism and Mental Health
• Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention (MCSP): Widening the Lens: Exploring the Role of Social Justice in Suicide Prevention, A Racial Equity Toolkit
• The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released resources that can be applied to health clinics, treatment centers and recovery spaces:
• Trauma, Racism, Chronic Stress and the Health of Black Americans
• Racial Equity Tools
• Anti-Racism Work in Recovery Spaces
• American Addiction Centers: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Among African Americans
• The 10R's of Talking About Race: How to Have Meaningful Conversations
• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
• How to Manage When Things Are Not Okay (And Haven't Been for Centuries)
• Pacific and Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center: Black History Month Resources
• The Kennedy Forum: "Take a Stand for Black Mental Health"
• Thema Bryant-Davis, Tyonna Adams, Adrianna Alejandre, and Anthea A. Gray, "The Trauma Lens of Police Violence against Racisl and Ethnic Minorities"
• The Child Mind Institute has created resources about how to discuss racism and violence with children. Click the links below to access the resources:
• Racism and Violence: How to Help Kids Handle the News
• A Clinical Perspective on Talking to Kids about Racism (Video)
• Helping Children Cope with Frightening News
• How to Foster Resilience in Kids
• What to Do (and Not Do) When Kids Are Anxious
• The Sentencing Project:Racial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist
• Huffington Post's Jillian Wilson article called "One Way To Be an Ally Right Now? Support Black Mental Health"
• American Academy of Pediatrics:Racial Disparity Seen in Child Abuse Reporting
• Harvard Business Review:How Employee Assistance Programs Can Help Your Whole Company Address Racism at Work
• The National Council for Mental Wellbeing:Addressing Health Equity and Racial Justice
  

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

• CMS announced plans to modernize The Physician Self-Referral Law, which prohibits physicians from making referrals to entities for certain healthcare services, if the physicians have financial relationships with the entities.
• CMS extends Dec. 13, 2020 deadline for 25,000+ physicians who were notified in September 2020 that they were eligible to receive APM payments and needed to update their billing information. Check the list for your name and the forms that are required.
• CMS announces the retirement of all the original Compares Tools on December 1st and encourages providers to make use of Care Compare and update all public facing links to the new Care Compare.
• Medicare open enrollment gets underway with lower premiums and new insulin benefit. 
  

Resources for Food and Meals

•  Hunger Free NJ provides a comprehensive list of resources for food and meals as organized by the group "Hunger Free New Jersey". 
  

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