Working closely with a number of partners aimed at improving outcomes for New York's children, families, and adults, CTAC, MCTAC, YTAC, and CWE provide robust training and technical assistance activities to provider agencies.
These Centers are funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health and the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports.
The McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University is committed to creating new knowledge about the root causes of poverty, developing evidence-based interventions to address its consequences, and rapidly translating research findings into action through policy and practice.
Families Together in New York State (FTNYS) is a family-run organization that represents families of children with social, emotional, behavioral and cross-systems challenges. Driven by their lived experience, their goal is to ensure that ALL families and youth have the support they need to succeed. Through public policy and coordinating systems, FTNYS represents thousands of families from across NYS whose children have been involved in many systems, including MH, addiction, special education, juvenile justice and foster care. In addition, Youth Power (YP) is a NYS network hosted by FTNYS that is run for and by youth and young adults. YP works to ensure young people have meaningful involvement on all levels of the services they receive. YP supports the availability of peer support through persistent advocacy, TTA and education opportunities. FTNYS developed and oversees the Parent Empowerment (PEP) training, which is designed for Family Peer Advocates (FPA). YP, in collaboration with FTNYS, developed and oversees the Youth Peer Advocate (YPA) training. FTNYS is the NYS credentialing entity for the Family and Youth Peer Advocate Credentials.
A unique coalition of self and system grassroots advocates partnering with traditional and peer providers to advance funding, quality of lives, excellence in the delivery of recovery focused rehabilitation and peer support services with a very strong focus on promoting human rights and justice.
The Alliance for Rights and Recovery is a state and national change agent dedicated to improving services, public policies and social conditions for people with mental health, substance use and trauma-related challenges, by promoting health, wellness, recovery, with full community inclusion, so that all may achieve maximum potential in communities of choice.
InUnity Alliance's mission is to improve care equity, quality, accessibility, and outcomes for New Yorkers who need substance use disorder and mental health services by advocating for, informing, and supporting community mental health and substance use disorder care providers, their workforce, and integration into systems of care.
InUnity Alliance was formed by the merger of two long-standing organizations, The Coalition for Behavioral Health and Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State (ASAP).
The Center for Implementation and Dissemination of Evidence-based Practices in States (IDEAS Center) is focused on the advancement of implementation science in behavioral health systems serving children, adolescents and their families. Implementation and dissemination research focuses on how the best evidence-based practices in children’s behavioral health can be more efficiently and effectively put to use in a way that they will ultimately benefit the greatest number of children and families.
Funded by a combination of support from the National Institute of Mental Health (including a P30 Center grant) and New York State Office of Mental Health, the mission of the IDEAS Center is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state roll-outs of evidence-based practices (EBPs) and quality improvement initiatives (QI).
Partnership to End Addiction partners with families, professionals and other organizations to end addiction in this country. They utilize a public health approach, rooted in science and compassion.
The Training and Technical Assistance Center provides specialized training and technical assistance for the many types of professionals who work with young children and their families, expanding New York’s capacity to promote positive mental health in the early years and during the perinatal period. A robust body of interdisciplinary research converges to show that healthy social emotional development in the first five years is a key foundation for children’s later success in childhood and throughout life, and that when problems emerge, it is easier, and far more effective, to address them when children are young.
TTAC strives to equip licensed mental health clinics, early care and education settings, and practitioners in all child serving systems with the knowledge and tools they need to support the healthy social emotional development of New York’s youngest children. TTAC is funded by NYC DOHMH and combines the expertise of the New York Center for Child Development (NYCCD) and the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at NYU.
