Postcrisis Follow-Up and Linkage to Community Services.

During the postcrisis period, many individuals struggle to transition to available care, often falling through the cracks. This article discusses effective postcrisis approaches that provide rapid access to transitional team-based care using critical time intervention strategies. It also highlights the development of state, county, and funder models for "care-traffic control" to ensure swift linkage to follow-up services, along with new funding models that support intensive community crisis stabilization during the postcrisis period.

Multidimensional Approaches to Quality Measurement and Performance Improvement in the Ideal Crisis System.

This work expands on the National Council for Mental Wellbeing whitepaper Quality Measurement in Crisis Services. The authors present 2 approaches to measure development: The first maps flow through the crisis continuum and defines metrics for each step of the process. The second uses the mnemonic ACCESS TO HELP to define system values, from the perspective of various stakeholders, with corresponding metrics.

A New, Comprehensive Approach to Integration Using Measurement to Demonstrate Value.

The comprehensive health care integration (CHI) framework promotes the delivery of integrated physical and behavioral health care to adults and children in community settings by providing a flexible integration approach for both physical and behavioral health settings, including ongoing measurement of outcomes linked to payment methodologies. The CHI framework demonstrates value, strengthening alignment between provider organizations and payers to support service integration at implementation and on an ongoing basis.