Mental Health Technology Transfer Center National Coordinating Center
Our Goal
Closing the gaps in access to effective mental health services requires change at the state, system, and individual provider levels. Typical training and technical assistance activities, such as one-time trainings and workshops, are insufficient to change practice.
Funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (H79SM081726), the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network consists of 10 Regional Centers, plus a National American Indian and Alaska Native Center, and a National Hispanic and Latino Center.
The MHTTC Network’s purpose is to strengthen the mental health workforce’s capacity to deliver effective mental health prevention, treatment, and recovery services to individuals across the 57 US states and territories.
Housed within CDI, the MHTTC National Coordinating Center provides leadership, infrastructure, and support nationwide, increasing its capacity to use dissemination and implementation (D&I) science to deploy effective implementation support strategies that lead to meaningful and sustainable changes in service delivery.
Our Team
Mark McGovern
Stanford University School of Medicine
Principal Investigator
Dr. Mark McGovern directs the Center for Dissemination and Implementation. His work focuses on implementation science, with emphasis on integrated behavioral health services for persons with co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders in both primary care and specialty settings. He actively collaborates with health systems, including Stanford Health Care and Intermountain Healthcare, on developing implementable and sustainable models of integrated behavioral health in primary care practice. His research interests also include scaling up access to FDA-approved medications in specialty care and in general medical practice settings.
Felicia Benson
Stanford University School of Medicine
Project Coordinator
Felicia Benson, MA, is the Project Coordinator for the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network Coordinating Office (NCO). The MHTTC NCO is part of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Felicia is coordinating the work of 12 centers that provide training and technical assistance to the mental health workforce to increase the use of evidence-based mental health prevention, treatment, and recovery support services across the United States.
Kate Hardy
Stanford University School of Medicine
Project Faculty
Heather Gotham
Stanford University School of Medicine
Director
Dr. Heather Gotham is a Clinical Associate Professor and clinical psychologist who joined Stanford in August 2018. Her work focuses on increasing the capability of behavioral health and health care providers to implement evidence-based practices that more effectively help people with mental health and substance use disorders. Dr. Gotham directs the SAMHSA-funded Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network Coordinating Office and is Co-Director of the Administrative Core of the NIDA-funded HEAL Data2Action Research Adoption Support Center. She is also a co-investigator on NIH-funded projects studying the implementation of substance use disorder screening and treatment approaches in HIV care settings and in women’s health settings.
Ricardo Canelo
Stanford University School of Medicine
Associate Project Coordinator
Ricardo Canelo, MPH, is the Associate Project Coordinator for the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network Coordinating Office (NCO). The MHTTC NCO is part of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Ricardo assists coordinating the work of 12 centers that provide training and technical assistance to the mental health workforce to increase the use of evidence-based mental health prevention, treatment, and recovery support services across the United States.
Shashank Joshi
Stanford University School of Medicine
Project Faculty
Jessica Gonzalez
Stanford University School of Medicine
Associate Project Director
Jessica E. Gonzalez, MSW joined the team in January 2019 and is the Coordinator for the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network Coordinating Office (NCO) - School Mental Health Initiative. Jessica has a Master’s degree in Social Work with an emphasis in Health/Mental Health at San Jose State University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Santa Clara University. She has worked in the community as a social worker providing mental health services in school and outpatient clinic settings to children and adolescents of diverse backgrounds.
Steven Adelsheim
Stanford University School of Medicine
Project Faculty
Shannon Wiltsey Stirman
Stanford University School of Medicine
Project Faculty
In addition, our Centers represent 12 major research and implementation support institutions across the US:
Our Work
The MHTTC Network services span mental health prevention, treatment, and recovery supports, and topics such as Assertive Community Treatment, Illness Management and Recovery, and other evidence-based practices; early psychosis; suicide screening and intervention; school mental health including school violence; and equitable, culturally responsive services. Annually, the MHTTC Network provides over 1,200 implementation support events ranging from basic webinars, skills training, and online courses, to intensive technical assistance such as learning collaboratives, to over 100,000 people. Our Products and Resources catalog contains over 2,500 products, including toolkits, fact sheets, and recorded trainings.
The MHTTC Network National Coordinating Center has 4 main activities:
- Assists the MHTTC Network in using the most rigorous and state-of-the-art D&I science based training and implementation support strategies that lead to a more significant impact on implementation outcomes, including reach, adoption, implementation fidelity and sustainment.
- Develops strategic alliances for the Network among culturally diverse practitioners, researchers, policy makers, family members, and consumers of mental health services
- Provides the Network with infrastructure supports (e.g., website platform, intranet, data collection process, online course site)
- Develops comprehensive curricula for school based mental health, including an educator-focused mental health literacy package, Classroom WISE
For more information, visit our website: www.mhttcnetwork.org