Columbia University will offer the first academic course on CTI to social work graduate students. Entitled, Facilitating Continuity of Care for Vulnerable Populations in Critical Transitions: Applications of CTI, the course is part of the school’s advanced generalist practice sequence. Dr. Fang-pei Chen, an assistant professor at the school, plans to offer the seven week
The Center for Social Innovation has issued a final evaluation report on its NIMH-funded effort to develop and pilot test a web-based CTI training and implementation support model for social workers and other staff working with homeless persons. This innovative project, which brought together experts in CTI, adult and team-based learning theories and multi-media technology,
The Institute on Psychiatric Services, an annual meeting of community-based psychiatrists organized by the American Psychiatric Association, was the site of a well-attended symposium on CTI held on October 11, 2009. The symposium, organized by Bert van Hemert of the ParnassiaBavo Group and Leiden University in the Netherlands and Dan Herman of New York State Psychiatric
A team of mental health workers and researchers from the Netherlands visited during the week of September 15 to meet with staff from Columbia University and several provider organizations involved with CTI implementation in New York City. Adaptation and testing of the CTI model has been underway for several years in the Netherlands where there
Dan Herman, CTI research director, met on May 29 with the mental health subcommittee of the North Carolina Practice Improvement Collaborative in Raleigh to describe the model, present research findings and discuss way in which CTI might be usefully implemented in the state’s mental health system. Reporting to the state’s Director of the Division of
For persons with severe mental illness, the transition from assertive community treatment (ACT) to less intensive services is a vulnerable period during which enhanced support is especially vital. The ACT Transitions Model, adapted in part from CTI, is a framework designed to enhance the coordination and continuity of care of service recipients who are moving
Lisa Dixon of the University of Maryland and colleagues have published a new experimental study assessing the effectiveness of a brief three-month adaptation of CTI in enhancing continuity of outpatient psychiatric treatment for persons with serious mental illness following discharge from inpatient care. Among the findings were that, compared with the control group, persons assigned
CTI has been added to the Best Practices Portal for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention. The portal, maintained by the Public Health Agency of Canada, is intended to improve policy and program decision-making by enabling access to the best available evidence on chronic disease prevention and health promotion.
Dan Herman of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and New York State Psychiatric Institute gave an invited presentation on CTI at the 2009 meeting of the NIMH Outreach Partnership Program in Charlotte, North Carolina on March 30. The program partners with national and state organizations, including local branches of NAMI and mental
A collaboration between the New York State Office of Mental Health, the Center for Urban Community Services and the Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies will develop and test a modified version of CTI to enhance continuity of treatment, housing and community supports for adolescents being discharged from residential treatment facilities. These programs, which provide