Crisis Care Supervisors Core Competencies
This resource provides an example of core competencies for crisis care supervisors, drawing on five key principles of trauma-informed care, psychological safety for staff, cultural responsiveness, self-awareness and stress management, and collaborative teaming. The core competencies listed in this document were developed by a committee of people who have experienced mental health and substance use crisis situations and the services provided by Wisconsin’s crisis system of care, county crisis workers, county crisis supervisors, staff with the Behavioral Health Training Partnership at UW-Green Bay, and staff with Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Collaborative Safety Plan
This resource offers an introduction to collaborative safety planning including individualizing plans, what to include in a safety plan, considerations for format and protocol of safety planning, and additional tools that dive deeper into implementation.
Cultural Formulation Interview
This resource breaks down the 'core' section of the Cultural Formulation Interview, an assessment designed to help providers assess the cultural definition and perception of the crisis, causes, context, supports, and current and past help seeking.
Racism and Social Determinants of Psychosis
This resource provides an overview of the effects of structural racism on risk and determinants of psychosis through social determining factors such as racial discrimination, food insecurity, and police violence. It proposes recommendations for addressing structural racism, policy treatment, individual level interventions, and considerations for future research to improve outcomes.
Shared Decision-Making in Mental Healthcare
This resource provides an overview of the practice of Shared decision-making and its effects on general and mental healthcare. It highlights voices of experts and stakeholders, including expereiences of consumers, and concludes with recommendations for future directions of incorporating SDM in policy, practice, training, and research.
Creating a Healthier Life: A step by step guide to wellness
This resource offers a step by step guide to developing a personalized wellness practice based on addressing the eight dimensions of wellness, which include occupational, social, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, environmental, and financial.
Integrated Assessment Guidelines
Although there is no single gold standard assessment tool for co-occurring disorders, there are certain guidelines you can use when doing an integrated assessment.
A Welcoming Space to Manage Crisis: The Wellness Respite Program
A Welcoming Space to Manage Crisis: The Wellness Respite Program, Anne-Margaret Smullen Thieling, MS, MA, LPC, LCADC, NCC, CPRP; Margaret Swarbrick, PhD, FAOTA; George Brice, Jr., MSW; and Patricia Nemec, PsyD, CRC, CPRP, 2022
The Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool
The Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), 2025
Risk Assessment in Clinical Practice: A Framework for Decision-Making in Real-World Complex Systems
Risk assessment in clinical practice: a framework for decision-making in real-world complex systems, Rajan Nathan and Sahil Bhandari, 2022
Risk Factors for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis of 50 Years of Research
Risk Factors for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis of 50 Years of Research, American Psychological Association, 2016