Mental Health Agencies
We work with mental health clinics and hospitals around the country to implement gold-standard interventions, strategies, and tools to enhance your clinical services and build your team.
Our Services
Clinical Training and Consultation
- We provide virtual and in-person training in evidence-based interventions, including MATCH, TF-CBT, and PCIT
- Learn more about our clinical training approach and interventions here.
Implementation Support
What is implementation support?
Traditional clinical training models often only focus on providing didactic training to clinicians. However, we know that training alone is not enough to make sure an intervention works well and lasts. The Quality Care Initiative (QCI) offers a variety of support activities grounded in implementation science to make sure the programs you are investing in are working. Our team works alongside agencies to build evaluation capacity, strengthen data‑driven decision‑making, and ensure programs achieve meaningful, lasting results.
The Learning Collaborative Methodology
Our implementation support activities help you:
- Clarify goals
- Assess implementation needs
- Identify barriers and facilitators
- Test and refine workflow improvements
- Build internal capacity by coaching staff, leaders, and teams
- Apply practical implementation strategies that support long‑term success
Our implementation support activities include:
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We help organizations assess their current capacity, resources, workflows, and organizational climate using processes backed by science to determine how ready they are to implement a new practice. This activity helps teams identify strengths, gaps, and needs to set the stage for successful implementation.
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We help teams develop a structured, step‑by‑step plan for implementing a new practice that identifies goals with specific timelines, responsibilities, and measures of progress. The workplan serves as a roadmap for implementation and makes sure everyone across clinical, administrative, and leadership roles is on the same page.
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We use multiple levels of data at the client, clinician, and organizational level to regularly assess how program implementation is going. Through regular meetings with organizations, our implementation experts support staff in making real-time adaptations to their approach to order to achieve their program goals.
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We provide comprehensive program evaluation services to help organizations understand the effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of their initiatives. Our evaluation approach is designed to make sure that findings are meaningful, actionable, and tailored to each agency’s goals.
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Leadership from organizations implementing the same intervention regularly meet to build networks, share strategies, and collaboratively problem solve implementation challenges.
Implementation Science Training
We offer a variety of in-person and virtual trainings for organizations in implementation science and quality improvement methods. These educational workshops can be offered independent of a clinical training and are a great fit for organizations looking to learn new strategies to strengthen their programs! Trainings include:
Implementation Science Seminar
This 8-hour training is intended for clinicians, quality improvement staff, senior leaders, and others looking to learn about implementing new programs and policies. This interactive, applied training teaches the basics of implementation science- what it is, why it matters, and how a structured approach can help tackle common barriers in organizations. Attendees learn key frameworks to help organize and guide implementation work and leave with a toolbox of resources to apply to their own implementation efforts within their agency.
Implementation Science Webinar Series
This webinar series includes five 90-minute sessions designed to teach clinicians, quality improvement staff, senior leaders, and others how to implement and sustain new programs and policies. Topics include:
- Introduction to Implementation: Understanding Types of Change in Program Implementation
- Assessing Context: Identifying Organizational Assets and Mapping Strategies
- Preparing for Implementation: Cultivating Champions for Change
- Implementing Change: Putting Strategies into Practice
- Sustaining Change: Ensuring Long-Term Success
Measurement-Based Care Webinar
This webinar provides an overview of the value of measurement-based care and how to use it to inform clinical practice. Measurement-based care is an evidence-based strategy for improving client outcomes, reducing non-response to treatment, and shortening treatment duration. Using clinical vignettes and example client data, clinicians receive hands-on training in how to collect progress monitoring data, interpret this data in a way that informs their practice, and share outcomes with families for collaborative decision-making.
Learning Collaboratives
For multi-agency training initiatives, QCI offers a Learning Collaborative Model. Each Collaborative brings together 4–6 agencies, creating a shared learning environment that promotes collaboration and builds collective implementation capacity. Both clinical and non‑clinical staff (e.g., quality improvement staff, senior leaders, administrative personnel, and family support staff) participate in Learning Collaborative activities to build strong, sustainable implementation efforts across the agency.
Learning Collaboratives include all implementation activities, plus specialized Learning Sessions at the beginning, middle, and end of the initiative.
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Learning Sessions are full or half-day sessions where clinicians and implementation teams across all participating agencies come together for interactive, skills‑based learning. Activities include training, case discussions, peer-to-peer learning, and data review. These sessions build clinical competency and strengthen teams' ability to apply the practice effectively and sustainably.
Click here to read an example of a Learning Collaborative initiative.