This TMF Quality Innovation Network change package provides a menu of options from which you can select specific interventions to develop an action plan that improves opioid-related outcomes and increases access to behavioral health services.

School nurses are leaders in student health, and they have the education and expertise to assist the community and school leadership in assessing the need for and implementing a campus naloxone program. This toolkit offers resources to assist school nurses and other school leaders in evaluating and responding to the drug overdose crisis.

Behavioral health care usually starts with a screening and diagnosis. It includes treatment, recovery services and support. Use this guide to learn how to use your health coverage to improve your mental health. This guide is part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' C2C Coverage to Care series.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood. ACEs can include violence, abuse, and growing up in a family with mental health or substance use problems. Toxic stress from ACEs can change brain development, and ACEs are linked to chronic health problems, mental illness and substance misuse in adulthood.

Behavioral health integration involves treating the whole person in order to improve health outcomes and patient experience without significantly increasing health care costs. Providers can use this report from the American Hospital Association and the outlined behavioral health integration pathway to evaluate their own organization and goals for a more holistic approach to care.

Integrating behavioral health across the care continuum helps create a seamless system of care that offers patients the services they need, when they need them, regardless of care setting. This report from Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence provides tools for hospitals and care systems to better integrate behavioral health across multiple health care delivery settings.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) addresses the impact of trauma on individuals, families, and communities as a behavioral health concern that requires a healing and recovery process.

Trauma-informed care (TIC) is a patient-centered approach to health care that calls on health professionals to provide care in a way that prevents re-traumatization of patients and staff. This article discusses TIC and provides strategies for trauma-informed nursing practice.

Use this tool to help interpret Geriatric Depression Scale scores and evaluate proposed actions and interventions.

Use this poster in your waiting and/or exam rooms to help patients understand which symptoms warrant a discussion on mental health.

This tool helps providers interpret AUDIT scores and conduct brief interventions for unhealthy substance use.

TMF Quality Innovation Network, en virtud del contrato con CMS, preparó este paquete para facilitar el cambio y proporcionar a las comunidades estrategias para combatir el abuso, el uso inapropiado y las sobredosis de opioides y aumentar el acceso a los servicios de salud del comportamiento.

Use this tool to help interpret Geriatric Depression Scale scores and evaluate proposed actions and interventions. This tool is in culturally appropriate Spanish for Puerto Rico.

This tool helps providers interpret Audit scores and conduct brief interventions for unhealthy substance use. This tool is in culturally appropriate Spanish for Puerto Rico.

Use this poster in your waiting and/or exam rooms to help patients understand which symptoms warrant a discussion on mental health. (This poster is in culturally appropriate Spanish for Puerto Rico and the United States.)