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As recipients of federal grant money via the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Mental Health Transformation Project is required to justify the use of its funds within federal tracking guidelines defined under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA).
Each time a new policy, organizational change, or training occurs, the change is entered into a GPRA database. Those changes are then rolled up into regular ongoing GPRA reports.
Read Latest GPRA Report [
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The Mental Health Transformation Project tracks over 200 activities around the state that are related to mental illness. The activities are categorized into 15 priority areas. The priority areas are as follows:
- Criminal Justice and mental health
- Develop and sustain consumer, youth and family organizations and membership
- Improve crisis system
- Improve housing
- Improve mental health outcomes using evidence based practice
- Improve screening and assessment
- Improve service integration, across-program and agency collaboration, and partnerships
- Increase access to primary care and mental health services
- Increase employment of working-age mental health consumers
- Increase focus on prevention and early intervention
- Increase use of technology and data
- Recovery and Resiliency
- Reduction in disparities
- Stigma reduction
- Trauma
Educational Materials
- Elements of Recovery for People Experiencing Mental Illness [ 100KB]
This fact sheet describes key elements that help many consumers in recovery. - Feeling Better: A Guide to the Mental Health System and
Getting the Help You Need [ 357KB]
This is a guide developed with the help of people who have experienced mental illness or mental health problems to share what they’ve learned about navigating the mental health system. - A Parent's Guide to the Public Mental Health System [ 1.7MB]
A guide for parents developed by SAFE WA to support parents, caregivers and youth around issues related to complex mental heath, emotional and behavioral health needs. - Promoting Recovery in Organizations [ 11KB]
This fact sheet describes basic principles mental health organizations can adopt to support persons with mental illness in their journeys’ to recovery. - Supporting Recovery: An Overview [ 111KB]
This fact sheet describes basic principles mental health providers can adopt to support persons with mental illness in their journeys’ to recovery. - Youth Guide to the WA Mental Health System [ 5MB]
A guide for youth designed by youth in partnership with caring adults to help youth navigate the mental health system, know their rights and access treatment.
Online Resources
- Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research
- Developing a Stigma Reduction Initiative
- In Our Own Voice: Living With Mental Illness (NAMI)
- National Mental Health Awareness Campaign
- SAMHSA's Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma (ADS Center)
- StigmaBusters (NAMI)
- Stigma: Building Awareness And Understanding About Mental Illness
- Stigma Watch (NMHA)
- What A Difference A Friend Makes
Information About the Stop Stigma Campaign
- Formative Research Report [ 562KB]
This research was used in developing the “social marketing” approach to eliminating the stigma surrounding of mental illness in Washington State. - July 2007 Progress Report [
264KB]
This report provides status as of July 2007 on the "social marketing" anti-stigma initiative for the Mental Health Transformation Project. - Social Marketing Plan [ 190KB]
This marketing plan was developed for the Mental Health Transformation Project’s initiative to eliminate the stigma surrounding mental illness in Washington State.
