Please join us on December 1st from 3 – 4:30 pm ET for Phase II of our webinar mini-series on the Phases of CTI. Following the same format as Phase I, presenters will include providers and trainers who will utilize case studies to illustrate best practices for CTI.
This photo essay consists of excerpts from a video created by the University of Chile team of the RedeAmericas (RA) project. The goal of RA is to improve the lives of people with mental disorders in the urban areas of Latin America. The photo essay focuses on Critical Time Intervention-Task Shifting (CTI-TS), a regional randomized pilot study of an intervention for individuals with severe mental disorders.
Want to know more about Critical Time Intervention (CTI)? Considering it as a model for your agency? Join t3 for this course, which covers the principles of, evidence for, and phases of CTI. Registration ends Thursday October 1st.
The next installment of our webinar series will be presented as a three part mini-series examining each phase of CTI. Presenters include providers and trainers who will utilize case studies to illustrate best practices for CTI. Each 90-minute webinar will consist of a three brief presentations with case studies, followed by a discussion during which attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of the experts and each other. The first part of this mini-series addressing Pre-CTI and Phase I will take place on October 19th from 2 – 3:30 pm ET.
In the first installment of our podcast series, CTI Spotlights, we interview Bebe Smith. Bebe is a clinical assistant professor of social work and psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was the project director for Critical Time Intervention: Local Pilot and Statewide Championing, a project funded by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, from July 2012 to June 2015. She is currently working with the NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services to support the expansion of CTI in NC.
A soon-to-be published article in Psychiatric Services investigates the impact of a brief version of CTI (B-CTI) on the occurrence of psychiatric readmission of adults with serious mental illness.
SMINET: Applying Evidence to Improve Care and Outcomes in Severe Mental Illness builds on an established multi-state consortium to increase uptake, on a broad scale, of selected evidence-based practices in the care of persons with severe mental illness that are particularly high-impact targets for improving long-term health outcomes. In this context, CTI is being promoted as a potential strategy to reduce the risk rehospitalization among high-risk patients following discharge from acute psychiatric treatment.
Project Director Mark Graham states, “Our program allows for our clinicians to assess clients and provide personalized treatment, so our clients get the intervention that is needed rather than something prescribed. We can address individual needs, and this results in a high level of buy-in and engagement.”
Representatives from the seven cities of the NIMH-funded RedeAmericas, including Sarah Conover, director of the CTI Global Network, attended the annual meeting last week at the University of Chile Salvador Allende School of Public Health in Santiago.
CACTI director Daniel Herman was the keynote speaker at the launch of a new initiative in North Carolina that will expand the use of CTI to multiple areas of the state.