What is it?
The Center for Mental Health Implementation Support (CMHIS) was established to strengthen capacity to implement effective, sustainable mental health prevention, treatment, and recovery practices. The Center helps organizations and systems translate evidence into action by supporting them to plan, launch, and sustain high-quality mental health programs that improve outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.
Through tailored implementation support, CMHIS partners with grantees funded by SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services and other organizations that oversee or provide mental health services. The project’s purpose is to help these systems overcome barriers, build readiness, and enhance service delivery so that people living with or at risk for serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance can access the care they need to thrive.
What Change Matrix does
As a partner within the Center for Mental Health Implementation Support (CMHIS), funded by SAMHSA, Change Matrix (CM) provides targeted technical assistance (TA) to strengthen state, tribal, territorial, and community mental health systems. CM delivers both individualized one-on-one support and group-based learning opportunities, including workshops, learning series, and facilitated peer exchanges that build capacity for sustainable implementation.
Through its partnership with the Pacific West and Southwestern Plains Regional Hubs, CM collaborates with the University of Texas and the University of Washington to help to support the identification of implementation challenges, co-develop solutions, and apply evidence-informed strategies that enhance access, quality, and sustainability of mental health services for children, youth, families, and adults.
Why we love this work
We love this work because it allows us to partner with communities and systems that are deeply committed to improving mental health outcomes. Every conversation, training, and collaboration helps translate evidence into real, lasting change for individuals and families.
What is it?
Transforming Academia for Equity (TAE), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), is an initiative designed to unpack, understand and shape the contextual and intervening conditions necessary for underrepresented scholars in schools and programs of public health to thrive personally and professionally. Success with this work will mean that scholars can contribute to and expand health equity-related research and evidence to help build a Culture of Health for all.
Seven grantees from college-/university-level schools and programs of public health currently participate in the TAE initiative. Each grantee institution engages a guiding team and, in shared leadership, works to identify and address adaptive challenges that stand in the way of moving beyond historically oppressive academic environments to a future that supports the scholars who contribute to health equity through their community-based research efforts.
