The Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health provides expertise to the following areas:
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a comprehensive, psychiatric evidence-based practice to assist individuals with a serious mental illness live in their community through direct, individualized support.
Assertive Community TreatmentIndividual Placement and Support (IPS)
Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a supported employment evidence-based practice designed to assist individuals with serious mental illness work at regular jobs of their choosing.
Individual Placement & SupportSuicide Prevention
Suicide is a serious public health problem in the United States. Suicide prevention includes strategies, approaches, programs, practices, and education that work to prevent suicide. Suicide prevention requires a comprehensive approach, and everyone has a role to play in suicide prevention.
Suicide PreventionPrevention
Prevention includes information dissemination; education; wellness promotion; organizing and enhancing community-based processes; developing environmental approaches; offering alternative activities; and building resiliency skills through structured learning, including support of critical life and social skills such as decision making, coping with stress, problem solving, interpersonal communication, and improving judgment.
PreventionFunctional Family Therapy (FFT)
Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is a short term prevention program for at-risk youth and their families. FFT aims to address risk and protective factors that impact the adaptive development of 11 to 18 year old youth who have been referred for behavioral or emotional problems.
Functional Family Therapy (FFT)First-Episode Psychosis (FEP)
First-Episode Psychosis (FEP) is an episode of mental illness where symptoms qualify for a psychosis and there has not been a psychotic episode before the index episode. NAVIGATE is a comprehensive program designed to provide early and effective treatment to individuals who have experienced a first episode of psychosis.
First-Episode Psychosis (FEP)