A SAMHSA sponsored webinar presented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness and conducted by Critical Time Intervention consultant and trainer, Bebe Smith, will take place Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 2:00pm Eastern Time called “Improving Access to Care: Critical Time Intervention to Help Transition People with Mental Illness out of Homelessness and Incarceration.” The
Nineteen people participated in a two-day CTI Train-the-Trainer (TTT) event that was held in New York City this past November and led by Sally Conover, CTI Global Network director, and Carolyn Hanesworth, CACTI consultant. They represented nine agencies in six states from Arizona to Tennessee. One participant, who had implemented CTI for people with mental
A recent paper published in Cadernos de Saude Publica describes challenges and lessons learned in this study of CTI-TS (task shifting). From 2014 to 2017, 110 people with psychosis were recruited at the time of entry into community mental health centers in Rio de Janeiro and Santiago. Trial participants were randomly assigned to receive usual
Homelessness Prevention and Intervention in Social Work, a new textbook published by Springer, includes a chapter on CTI by Carolyn Hanesworth and Dan Herman. The book, edited by Heather Larkin, Amanda Aykanian, and Calvin Streeter, is intended to be an accessible resource for clinicians and community practitioners seeking current knowledge on the topic, practical approaches
Are you an experienced trainer and Critical Time Intervention practitioner? The Center for the Advancement of Critical Time Intervention (CACTI) is holding a two-day Train-The-Trainer event in NYC this November. Attending the training will allow participants to become certified in training other CTI workers and gain access to training resources and materials. Where: Silberman School of Social Work
This past November, the CACTI team welcomed 9 trainees to our New York City CTI Train-the-Trainer (TTT) Event, led by our Director of CTI Global Network, Sally Conover, MPH, and CACTI Trainer and Consultant, Bebe Smith, MSW. Already practicing Critical Time Intervention and representing 5 states from Utah to Pennsylvania, our trainees completed the two-day
This fall, CACTI will be hosting a two-day Train-The-Trainer (TTT) event for experienced CTI practitioners! The training will allow individuals to become certified in training CTI workers, an especially valuable asset to have in-house for agencies unable to continually pay for external trainings of new employees. Previous training experience is preferred, but not required. Where:
On Thursday, May 17th, a group of CTI trainers and program leaders presented their efforts to integrate Critical Time Intervention into Rapid Rehousing programs across the state at the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness’s 16th Annual Training Institute. The day long series of workshops and lectures took place at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.
A service collaborative of representatives from the District of Thunder Bay, supported by the Provincial System Support Program (PSSP) of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, received CTI training in May 2018. The aim of the service collaborative is to improve outcomes among people with mental health and addiction challenges following discharge from the hospital
Last week we introduced you to Network4Health (N4H)’s Care Transitions Team in Greater Manchester, New Hampshire: a team of social service practitioners working with a caseload of Medicaid beneficiaries who experience behavioral health disorders or are at risk of experiencing a behavioral health disorder and are facing a variety of important life transitions. Clinical Director,