This page features a chronology of significant events in our history. The CEBP has its roots in over 35 years of research, education, and training (workforce development) initiatives of the Mandel School of Applied Social Science at Case Western Reserve University and at the Department of Psychiatry at the Case School of Medicine, with leadership from the following:
The CEBP began as the Ohio Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Coordinating Center of Excellence (Ohio SAMI CCOE) in December 1999 with a grant from the Ohio Department of Mental Health (ODMH), which received funding from the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant Program of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The Ohio SAMI CCOE is one of several CCOE initiatives in the State of Ohio funded by ODMH. The SAMI CCOE was created to disseminate (provide technical assistance for) the evidence-based Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) model to service systems, organizations, and providers. The CCOE began serving nine community-based organizations.
IDDT is a model developed and studied by the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC). It improves quality of life and other outcomes for people diagnosed with co-occurring severe mental illness and substance use disorders.
The Ohio SAMI CCOE began to receive funding from the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS), expanding the public-academic partnership between Case Western Reserve University and ODMH that began in December 2000 with the creation of the SAMI CCOE.
ODMH was awarded additional funding from SAMHSA's Community Mental Health Services Block Grant Program to implement Supported Employment (SE), the evidence-based practice, in four community-based organizations in Ohio. ODMH awarded funding to the Ohio SAMI CCOE to provide technical assistance to these organizations.
The SAMI CCOE reorganized and created an additional CCOE—the Ohio Supported Employment (SE) Coordinating Center of Excellence—to provide technical assistance for the implementation of the evidence-based SE model. It also created the Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University, an umbrella organization to oversee the activities of both the SAMI and SE CCOEs.
ODMH was awarded funding from the Johnson & Johnson-Dartmouth Community Mental Health Program—a national dissemination effort coordinated by the Dartmouth PRC—to support the implementation of SE in three additional community-based organizations. ODMH awarded funding to the CEBP to provide technical assistance to these organizations through the CEBP's Ohio SE CCOE initiative, bringing the total number of Ohio organizations implementing SE to 13.
The Ohio SE CCOE began providing technical assistance to six additional community-based organizations with additional funding that ODMH received from SAMHSA.
The Center for EBPs was featured in the Winter 2007 issue of "MSASS Action," the newsletter for alumni, friends, and community partners of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.
ODMH and ODADAS received funding from the Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation to develop a tobacco-cessation service model specifically for people with severe mental illness and/or substance use disorders and invited the CEBP to collaborate in the planning and development process.
ODMH and ODADAS awarded funding to the CEBP to design, implement, and evaluate a tobacco-cessation model through its Ohio SAMI CCOE initiative. The CEBP model-development team began a planning process with representatives from partnering organizations and other Ohio stakeholders. The team also received consultation from Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Jill Williams, M.D., of the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Both Drs. DiClemente and Williams are nationally recognized for their research and program development for tobacco cessation.
The Tobacco Cessation Kick-Off Event was held in Columbus to introduce community-based and hospital-based behavioral healthcare organizations to the new "Tobacco and Recovery" service model designed by the CEBP. The CEBP began providing technical assistance to community-based organizations and state psychiatric hospitals implementing the new model.
The CEBP began providing technical assistance for Motivational Interviewing (MI), an evidence-based treatment that is one of the best available to address ambivalence to change. MI is a therapeutic technique designed to help people resolve their ambivalence about making meaningful personal changes in their lives. MI also helps people identify their readiness, willingness, and ability to make the change. MI is a core component of evidence-based practices such as IDDT and SE, as well as other service models.
Several consultants and trainers at the CEBP were trained at and began participating in the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), an initiative which is directed by MI co-creators William R. Miller, Ph.D., and Stephen Rollnick, Ph.D.
The November/December 2008 cover story of the nationally distributed Social Work Today magazine featured the CEBP's Ohio SAMI CCOE initiative. The story written by David Surface highlighted the work of a SAMI CCOE consultant and trainer and explored the evolution, effectiveness, and growing national commitment to IDDT. The story also featured the policy innovations of ODMH and ODADAS, as well as the work of colleagues in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Minnesota.
The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric aired a report on Supported Employment (SE), the evidence-based practice, in Ohio. It featured a story of a consultant and trainer from the CEBP's Ohio SE CCOE initiative and a story of a consumer who returned to competitive and meaningful work at an auto dealership in Canton with help from Coleman Professional Services. At the time the CBS story aired, Coleman was one of 15 organizations implementing the SE model in Ohio with technical assistance from the CEBP.
The CEBP began providing technical assistance for Benefits Planning (BP) to help direct-service providers help consumers make more informed decisions about their benefits, especially when they are pursuing part-time or full-time employment. Benefits Planning is a core component of the evidence-based SE model. The CEBP emphasizes that case managers, employment specialists, and other service providers do not need to be full-time benefits counselors or experts in benefits planning but may complement the work of benefits experts with some basic knowledge of Medicaid, housing subsidies, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
The Tobacco and Recovery model was renamed "Tobacco: Recovery Across the Continuum" (TRAC), a stage-based motivational model for people with severe mental illness and/or substance use disorders. The new name emphasizes the model's intention to equip service providers with strategies to connect with people in all "stages of change," including people who are either unaware of or ambivalent about the benefits of reducing and eliminating tobacco use as well as those ready to reduce and become tobacco-free. TRAC integrates tobacco treatment with existing behavioral and primary healthcare approaches.
The CEBP-through its Ohio SAMI CCOE initiative-expanded its technical-assistance strategies that help organizations plan and implement services for people diagnosed with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders. The CEBP began to utilize two organizational assessment and planning tools:
Consultants and trainers use the DDCAT and DDCMHT to help service organizations assess their capability (or capacity) to provide treatment for co-occurring disorders and to develop and implement a plan to do so with increasing capacity over time.
The CEBP celebrated ten years of EBP implementation in the State of Ohio at its conference, titled "Sustaining Evidence-Based Practices: The Next 10 Years," which was held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. Over 330 people from Ohio and 17 other states attended.
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