This quick reference guide highlights information and practice suggestions that can support and deepen your therapeutic relationship when working with young trauma survivors.

This brief guide outlines components of a trauma responsive approach to care that any clinician can use to support people in their journey to healing, recovery and building resilience. 

This resource is intended to raise awareness and facilitate a conversation on how to identify and support an intergenerational approach to break the transmission of trauma with the goal of healing. 

The Benchmark Modeling Tool is an Excel based fiscal model designed for use by Outpatient clinics. As of February 2024, an updated MHOTRS Financial Modeling Calculator has been developed. Please use the link below to navigate to the new tool.

Self-confidence is essential in order for youth to develop into successful adults, as this helps them better relate to peers, perform better academically, and make informed, safer decisions. In this toolkit we will address the importance of self-confidence, challenges to ones’ self-confidence and practical tips to use when working with youth. 

Share these Caregiver's Guides with caregivers and families to help them better understand their children's experiences, conditions, and treatment.

Details the steps Licensed Practitioners of the Healing Arts should take when recommending a youth for Children and Family Treatment & Support Services.

Excel-based financial tool to help providers to identify their volume, service mix, productivity standards and operating expenses for Children and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS)

The Community-Delivered Services Planning Workbook is designed as a guide to help providers ensure their program models and practices reflect current best practices for working in the field. The workbook is intended for both experienced providers as well as those new to this way of providing services.

An easy to use guide to talk with individuals seeking treatment about the value of employment

Developed in partnership with NYAPRS and CCSI, this toolkit contains resources helpful to providers around the implementation of CORE. A brief description of each resource and its intended audience is also included.

Our resources for Coordination of Benefits (COB), billing rules, using zero-fill for individuals with dual coverage (Medicare and Medicaid), and information from Medicaid Managed Care Plans (MMCPs).

These tools are designed to help organizations identify new critical data points and understand areas of strengths and opportunities as it relates to their agency's current data practices.

CTAC has developed three animated videos on implicit bias, microaggressions, and caregiver perspectives.

Documentation Done Right is a set of workbooks designed to share best practices in documentation and provide users with exercises that provide an opportunity to practice these skills.

Explore the adoption of an EHR system, upgrade current electronic health software, or consider software capacities your organization may want to leverage

This Guide is designed to serve as a resource for engaging and empowering people in their own mental health recovery.

A checklist intended to help providers ensure they are utilizing best clinical practices during initial evaluation sessions.

CTAC has prepared these resources to promote family-driven practice. The Guiding Principles and Tips can be helpful for supervisors, clinicians and families to build a transparent, trusting and collaborative relationship. The Supervision Strategies support supervisors in modeling best practices that can be implemented by supervisees working with families.

Highlights critical areas of managed care readiness and tips for providers.

Use the linked tool below from the New York State Department of Health to find a Health Home that serves your county or to learn about each of the Health Homes.

This tool supports mental health providers in the practical application of intersectionality, to provide effective mental health service delivery and care that addresses mental health inequities.

Answers common questions regarding managed care billing, contracting, utilization management, outcomes, and more.

Incorporate these key messages in the engagement, assessment, and treatment process to reinforce, validate and empower.

This liberation psychology tool aims to address oppressive systems and understand their impacts on the individual and community. Clinical recommendations are provided on how to incorporate tenets of this framework with youth from racially and ethnically marginalized backgrounds using an intersectional approach. 

The consultant directory lists available professionals to consider for individualized managed care support.

Interactive online glossary of frequently used managed care terminology. Includes a printable top acronyms "cheat sheet."

Helps providers to assess organizational readiness for managed care across eleven critical domains.

These quick reference guides highlight information and practice suggestions that can enhance and deepen your knowledge on emerging topics. Topics include facilitating collective healing and shared resilience, attending to the youth mental health crisis, being a climate-aware provider, and supporting and retaining frontline workers. Additionally, lists of topic related resources are available.

This tool is designed for MHOTRS Programs (Article 31 Clinics). The tool will allow you to identify your key cost and revenue drivers and will help you better understand how service volume, service type, operating cost and reimbursement rates affect your bottom line.

This guide provides people with simple techniques and practices to use in their everyday lives to help regulate, relieve stress, and even take control of their lives.

A comprehensive assessment measures database designed specifically for behavioral health providers.

Your agency's cheat sheet to managed care contracting. Prepare, Evaluate and Negotiate your contract with Managed Care Organizations. 

Well-detailed policies & procedures serve as valuable communication tools for the efficient implementation of all business operations within the organization and for reducing operational error and oversights.

Three easy to use guides to help your organization bill smoothly.

Utilize the Session Feedback Form to hear about the experience of your clients and incorporate feedback into your service delivery.

As Suicide Prevention Month comes to a close, we recognize the urgent and continued need to identify and support youth. Therefore, we have developed a brochure for you to help parents and caregivers work through concerns they may have about discussing suicide with the young people in their lives and to be more effective in having these all too important conversations.

This guide provides information on (DV/IPV) and tips within the scope of work for FPAs supporting children and caregivers in difficult situations.

This tool provides provides practical suggestions to those working in human services organizations about how to address and manage the impact of a client’s death due to suicide on staff members and clients.

This tool provides information on what ADHD is, including the signs and symptoms, and how it can impact youth and children. Also included is a list of tips for caregivers on how best to support children and young people with ADHD.

CTAC has created three Skills in Action videos focused on validation, reflective supervision, and nurturing trust.

This tool reviews five core areas along with best practices specific to telehealth. Providers can use this guide as a continuous evaluation of the needs, preferences, appropriateness for, and clinical effectiveness of telehealth.

CTAC has prepared this useful resource to promote the keys to having supportive and constructive discussions of stressful and potentially traumatizing events with children and youth experiencing collective grief.

This resource provides information on trauma-responsive telehealth concepts and practice guidelines. It also contains links to helpful tools to consider implementing culturally-responsive trauma-informed care in virtual practice.

This comprehensive toolkit can help guide your organization when selecting, interviewing, and evaluating potential candidates.

This resource accompanies the recent offering, Trauma Responsive and Affirming Practices to Reduce Suicide among Trans and Gender Expansive Youth. It summarizes key takeaways from the conversation, including the disproportionate burden of mental and behavioral health challenges experienced by trans and gender expansive youth. Affirming, trauma informed, and gender-affirming practices to build resilience among trans and gender expansive youth are shared to support the needs of this community.