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Federally funded project promotes CTI to reduce hospital readmissions

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.

CBC project Pathway Home providing personalized CTI in New York City

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.”

RedeAmericas meeting in Santiago

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.

Webinar Series: CTI for Veterans

Join us for our second CTI webinar hosted by the Center for the Advancement of Critical Time Intervention on Monday June 22nd from 2 – 3:30 pm ET.

Critical Time Intervention (CTI) Webinar Series: Quality Assurance and Fidelity

Join us for our first CTI webinar hosted by the Center for the Advancement of Critical Time Intervention on Monday March 30th from 1 pm to 2:30 pm ET. CTI experts Sally Conover and Kimberly Livingstone will lead a discussion about methods for monitoring and improving quality in CTI programs. They will also provide information about training on the CTI Fidelity Scale.

New Pay for Success program using CTI to improve child welfare outcomes in Ohio

The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio has launched The Partnering for Family Success Program, the nation’s first county-level Pay for Success (PFS) project in partnership with FrontLine Service, a comprehensive continuum of care service provider for homeless persons in Ohio. Together with the Program’s housing partners, FrontLine will link each caregiver to housing using CTI and age-appropriate, evidence-based trauma services that will strengthen healthy and secure caregiver-child relationships.