y concerns related to engaging children, adolescents and families using distance technology. This website of SAMHSA’s Mental Health Technology Transfer Center [MHTTC] Network includes webinar session recordings and slides, and related FAQs and resource materials.
Planning for Virtual/Distance School Counseling During an Emergency Shutdown: Explains how schools can deliver comprehensive virtual school counseling programs during emergency school closures. The American School Counselor Association recommends that school counselors continue to teach the school counseling curriculum as much as possible, but prioritize the most critical academic, career, and social-emotional lessons.
Clinical Innovations in Telehealth Learning Series Offered a 4-session on-line series of learning events in May-June 2020 targeting high-priority clinical issues for providers using telehealth. The learning series was produced by SAMHSA’s MHTTC Network. Experts in clinical care and telehealth devoted the first segment of each hour-long session to a specific topic, then addressed questions submitted by registrants. This site now hosts recordings of the four presentations, and accompanying resources, including an FAQ document.
COVID-19 Related State Actions: Includes updated actions to remove telehealth barriers broken down by state, compiled by the National Telehealth Policy Resource Center, Center for Connected Health Policy.
Current Telehealth-Related State Laws and Reimbursement Policies: Includes information on telehealth-related laws, regulation and Medicaid programs in all fifty states and the District of Columbia from the National Telehealth Policy Resource Center, Center for Connected Health Policy.
Office and Technology Checklist for Tele-Psychological Services: Provides a checklist to determine whether video-conferencing services are appropriate for an individual, of technology considerations, for set-up, preparing for and undertaking therapeutic sessions. The American Psychological Association published this checklist as the COVID-19 national emergency began in March 2020.
Telehealth Tips: Managing Suicidal Clients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Provides tips for evaluating and treating suicidal individuals remotely via telehealth. This resource was developed by Columbia University's Center for Practice Innovations and Suicide Prevention - Training, Implementation and Evaluation [SP-TIE].
Telehealth Tips: Provides more than 20 practical tips from a certified telemental health therapist. Licensed marriage and family therapist Pam Suraci shares guidance from her experience in a 27-minute video interview.
Telemental Health 101: Provides a videotaped training video to help prepare school mental health clinicians to use telemental health to provide services and supports to students and families. Jennifer Cox, LCSW-C, director of the University of Maryland School Mental Health Program, prepared this 47-minute training video to support the transition from in-person to virtual formats in response to extended widespread school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Telehealth Program (Invoices & Reimbursements): Provides funding, appropriated by Congress, to help health care providers provide connected care services to patients at their homes or mobile locations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 Telehealth Program provides immediate support to eligible health care providers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by fully funding their telecommunications services, information services, and devices necessary to provide critical connected care services. This webpage serves as a hub for information, forms and processes related to this reimbursement program. The FCC has provided a set of Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ’s] for this program.
InsureKidsNow.gov - Mental Health: Offers a set of tools to encourage parents and caregivers to enroll their children (students) in Medicaid and CHIP to access important mental health benefits. The national Medicaid agency [CMS] is emphasizing mental health care in its recently launched Connect