Its work with federal partners and trauma survivors fueled a deeper understanding of how best to meet the needs of individuals who have experienced trauma.Ī blog series titled From Trauma-Aware to Trauma-Informed: Implementing SAMHSA’s Six Principles NCTIC was guided by the fundamental beliefs that people with personal experiences of trauma can and do recover and heal trauma-informed care is the hallmark of effective programs to promote recovery and healing through support from peers, consumers, survivors, ex-patients, and recovering persons and mentoring by providers and leadership teams of peers and providers charting the course for the implementation of trauma-informed care are essential.Īs one of the earliest national organizations to recognize the importance of trauma, NCTIC is proud of its contributions to establishing trauma-informed care as a powerful social movement involving agencies, communities, and states across the country. The use of trauma-informed approaches was incorporated into a broad range of service systems, with input from trauma survivors’ perspectives in all aspects of the contract. NCTIC supported SAMHSA’s commitment to provide information, technical assistance, and support to increase awareness about the impact of trauma on people with mental health or substance use disorders, as well as people served by public health, education, and corrections systems.Ī key focus of the work was to promote alternatives to seclusion, restraint, and other coercive interventions to minimize the likelihood of re-traumatization. The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) was the prime contractor for NCTIC.
A diverse team of staff and consultants, many of them trauma survivors and nationally recognized leaders, provided technical assistance (TA) and participated in developing products and materials under this contract. It linked participants into specific learning networks that focused on a specific topic of interest and provided opportunities for networking and peer support.Įveryone within individual learning networks received hands-on expertise and guidance to initiate, continue, and complete business operations changes.Ĭurrently, BHBusiness offers virtual technical assistance through self-paced online courses, coupled with a robust library of web resources on these same topics, at no cost to participants.ĪHP was a subcontractor to SAMHSA’s National Center for Trauma-Informed Care and Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion (NCTIC) for 8 years.
The program empowered participating organizations to actually make quantifiable changes, rather than just learn how to do so.
The goal was to help behavioral health providers identify and implement customized change projects that expanded their service capacity, harnessed new payer sources, and ultimately made them able to thrive in the changing health care environment. Improving Your Third-Party Billing SystemĮxploring Affiliations, Mergers, and Acquisitions
Utilizing a coached learning network model that lasted 3 to 6 months per network, AHP conducted more than 50 learning networks, each involving hundreds of participants, around the following topics:
BHbusiness Plus was funded through SAMHSA.