Substance Abuse & Mental Illness
There are several strategies available to help service systems and organizations evaluate, plan, and implement services for people with substance-use disorders and mental illness. These include DDCAT, DDCMHT, and IDDT.

Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based treatment that addresses ambivalence to change. It is a conversational approach designed to help people identify their readiness, willingness, and ability to change and to make use of their own change-talk.

Supported Employment
Supported Employment, the evidence-based practice, helps people diagnosed with mental illness find a regular job of their choice in the community. It is different from traditional vocational-rehabilitation approaches. It emphasizes consumer choice and rapid job-search.

Benefits Planning
Benefits Planning helps people with disabilities make informed decisions about their financial futures and prevent financial crises. Case managers, employment specialists, and other service providers may help by knowing some basic information about benefits programs.

Tobacco: Recovery Across the Continuum
A stage-based motivational service model that helps people with severe mental illness and/or substance use disorders reduce and eventually eliminate the use of tobacco products. It integrates tobacco treatment with existing healthcare and behavioral healthcare services.