To truly promote wellness, mental health care must employ a public health approach and apply prevention and early intervention techniques across the lifespan. Also, integrated physical health and mental health care services must be provided as common practice to effectively treat the whole person.
Toward this goal, the Transformation Working Group prioritized actions -- based on the topics listed below -- to begin addressing population-based and targeted prevention and early intervention strategies and to promote the integration of mental health practices into the full continuum of health interventions.
The status of these projects, as well as all
projects of Missouri's Transformation Initiative, may be found in
the latest update of Missouri's
Comprehensive Plan for Mental Health.
- System of Prevention & Early Intervention
- Early Childhood System
- School-Based Mental Health Services
- Positive Behavior Support
- Olweus Bullying Prevention
- Mental Health and Aging Workgroup
- Healthy IDEAS for Older Adults
- Suicide Prevention
- Public Health
- Tobacco Cessation (No Butts)
- Disaster Mental Health Guidelines
- Higher Education Homeland Security Initiative
- Public Health Model – Communities of Hope
- Bright Futures
- Community Coalitions
- Regional Support Centers
- Integrated Health and Mental Health
- Federally Qualified Health Center/Community Mental Health Center (FQHC/CMHC) Collaboration
- DMH Net
- Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment (SBIRT) Project
- Psychiatric Acute Care Transformation (PACT)
