| Arizona Showcase
Arizona model programs, best practices, and technical assistance centers. Do you have an evidence-based best practice, program model, or clinical tool? Submit your suggestions for additions to this site.
Arizona Best Practice Publications:
- Into the Light: Arizona's Behavioral Health System (Contact Roy
Pringle at St.
Luke's Health Initiatives for these reports)
- Volume I: A strength-based analysis of Arizona's public behavioral health
system that identifies "best practices" across the United
States and applies them to Arizona.
- Volume II: A sourcebook for implementing best practices in behavioral healthcare
systems, with further discussions and specific examples for Arizona.
- Outcomes,
Innovations, and Best Practices - a publication of the Community
Partnership of Southern Arizona, featuring evidence-based programs
and practices in the Arizona community behavioral health system
- DBHS Clinical Guidance Documents - Clinical Guidance Documents published by the Arizona Department of Health Services, Division of Behavioral Health Services, to assist providers in Arizona's public behavioral health system. Site includes Clinical Practice Guidelines, Performance Improvement Protocols (PIPs), and Technical Assistance Documents (TADs).
- Integrated Treatment (Co-occurring disorders) - "Providing Integrated Services for Persons with Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders" (final report of the Arizona Integrated Treatment Consensus Panel)
- Touchstone
Behavioral Health: Functional Family
Therapy (FFT), Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC), and Multisystemic Therapy (MST).
Touchstone Behavioral Health is pioneering in the Arizona implementation
of three nationally recognized models of therapy and wraparound interventions
for children and adolescents. Programs are based on models developed
and evaluated by the Blueprints Project of the Colorado Center
for the Study and Prevention of Violence and the national Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
- Arizona Research and Technical
Assistance Resources - nationally recognized centers for research and
technical assistance in mental health and substance abuse issues:
Best Practices from Southern Arizona
Community Partnership of Southern Arizona
- Outcomes and
Innovations -
Designed for providers of behavioral health services to share service delivery outcomes and innovations.
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Arizona Model Behavioral Health Programs
The following Arizona programs
are evidence-based or are based on nationally-recognized models that
reflect best or promising practices in behavioral health.
Children
Touchstone
Behavioral Health – Functional
Family Therapy, and Multidimensional
Treatment Foster Care Touchstone Community is pioneering in the
Arizona implementation of nationally recognized models of therapy and
wraparound interventions for children and adolescents. Programs are
based on models developed and evaluated by the Blueprints
Project of the Colorado Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
and the Oregon
Social Learning Center.
Seriously Mentally Ill Adults
META Services, Inc. – Wellness Recovery Action Program (WRAP) and other recovery-based programs The WRAP Program implemented by Meta Services, Inc. assists consumers in monitoring uncomfortable and distressing symptoms and, through planned responses, reducing, modifying or eliminating those symptoms. Meta Services has also developed a wide range of peer support and other programs based on the recovery model.
Substance Abuse and Chemical Dependency
TERROS, Inc. – LADDER Program (Life Affirming Dual Diagnosis Education and Recovery) provides intensive wraparound services for adults dually diagnosed with mental illness and chemical dependency. The program offers a strength-based model of interventions based on outcome research with this population. |
Prevention
Kinship
and Adoption Resource and Education (K.A.R.E.) Family Center Modeled
after the Edgewood Family Center in San Francisco, the K.A.R.E. Family
Center provides case management and comprehensive support services to
grandparents and other family members who are the primary caregivers
for children unable to reside with their parents. A key feature of the
program is the involvement of kin caregivers and adoptive parents in
all aspects of K.A.R.E. services - as clients, volunteers, and paid
outreach workers.
Other Programs
Northern
Arizona Regional Behavioral Health Authority (NARBHA) – Regional
telebehavioral health network In 1996 NARBHA received funding from
the Arizona Department of Health Services to develop a telemedicine
system that would enhance the delivery of behavioral health services
throughout the 62,000 square miles of northern Arizona. Its success
in implementing a 14-site network used for direct clinical care and
administrative and training purposes won NARBHA
net recognition as one of the Top 10 Telemedicine Networks in the
U.S. by Telehealth Magazine. |
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