This new analysis is the only U.S. estimate of enrollment in a wide range of behavioral health management models including traditional managed behavioral health models, health plan management initiatives, employee assistance programs, and disease management initiatives.

The national behavioral health management market metrics include a number of critical data sets:

• U.S. enrollment in behavioral health management programming, since 1993
• Behavioral health management program organizational market share by program type, for 2011
• Current enrollment and enrollment trend data for managed behavioral health programs and employee assistance programs
• Specialty disease management program enrollment
• Identification of the ‘top 10’ vendor programs by market share in each program type
• A listing of U.S. organizations providing behavioral health management services
• Profiles of over 360 U.S. organizations – including history, enrollment by program, contact information, and key executive team members
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The Salary Survey provides important information about the behavioral health workforce at a time when healthcare delivery structures are rapidly evolving, behavioral health job responsibilities are becoming more complex, and the competition for high-performing employees is intensifying. The Salary Survey offers timely information upon which to plan and act.......READ MORE

OPEN MINDS has identified five critical non-clinical management competencies needed for the success of behavioral health and social service organizations. In this book, we review those key competencies and discuss a structured approach to competency assessment and development. Written by OPEN MINDS associates and advisory board members.......READ MORE

This publication presents state-of-the-art financial management techniques, models, and solutions for organizations to survive. It incorporates best-of-the-best articles and resources from OPEN MINDS 20 year history. Leading industry experts, in addition to OPEN MINDS senior staff, provide valuable financial management information to help improve your organization's overall effectiveness in this compilation of articles.......READ MORE

This book offers clear and practical strategies and methods for implementing multiple evidence-based practices at the same time. Given in clear and understandable language, this is an essential how-to book based on the actual experiences of Washtenaw County Community Support and Treatment Services in Michigan.......READ MORE

Many managers in healthcare begin their careers as clinicians and are promoted to managerial positions because of the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency with which they provide care. Suddenly they are thrust into the world of employee management, budgets, Medicaid, compliance, and more. Building Management in Healthcare by the Numbers provides an overview of the information new managers and even experienced managers need to be effective in their roles in an organization.......READ MORE

Employment is an intricate part of the recovery process and a primary tool for empowering consumers. Providers are employing consumers in greater numbers as a way to improve clinical and business outcomes. To effectively hire and retain consumer employees there are many questions about how to recruit, manage and integrate this staff into your agency.......READ MORE

This book is a compilation of best practices that focus on workforce issues, such as staff recruitment, retention, performance, satisfaction, and leadership development. The contributors are executives of behavioral health organizations from across the country that have implemented innovative workforce strategies and achieved noteworthy success. In each chapter, they give an honest and detailed account of their efforts (including their stumbles) as they address one of our industry’s greatest struggles.......READ MORE

This book motivates and equips community mental health and addiction service providers to proactively reach out to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families. It describes the unique characteristics of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the resulting physical, mental, economic, and social effects on veterans and their families. The book presents detailed case studies of community behavioral healthcare providers and associations with special expertise in and commitment to serving.......READ MORE

This 174 page book contains a collection of age-specific, sensory-based trauma intervention activities that focus on the major themes of trauma: hurt, worry, fear, etc. Designed especially for use with children and adolescents in school and agency settings when time is limited. All intervention activities take less than 20 minutes to complete. Great complement to all the TLC SITCAP® intervention programs.......READ MORE

What allows some traumatized children to do better than others? TLC's qualitative research with traumatized school-aged children resulted in this new resource, A Time for Resilience: Helping Children Become Resilient in a Traumatic World: A Guide for Professionals, by Caelan Kuban and William Steele. This evidence-based program includes activities and worksheets for teachers, staff and children to help build connections, continuity, dignity and opportunity. Also included is the book, Raising Resilient Children in a Traumatic.......READ MORE

Helpful, age-appropriate booklets to explain to children, adolescents, and parents what trauma is, what to expect, and ways to heal the hurt. These booklets were written by William Steele as one of the companions for the Trauma Intervention Program, but are very useful on their own. This series includes three publications.......READ MORE

This publication is focused on the needs of executives in the health and human service field, serving the complex consumers in behavioral health, children's services, disability supports, and public health. Based on over twenty years of research on best management practices and the work of 70+ OPEN MINDS researchers and consultants, this 400+ page strategy guide addresses four critical areas of focus........READ MORE

In a competitive marketplace, organizations with the least financial capital are the organizations that need the best strategies. This handbook of best practices in planning and leadership of organizational evolution provides the busy executive with a crash course in management models that work. ........READ MORE

This is a comprehensive survey of technology applications in the behavioral health and social service field. It is the most complete source of information on technology spending, staffing, internet usage, vendors and more within the behavioral health and social service fields. Over 240 behavioral health and social service organizations reported on their current and planned technology usage.......READ MORE

This is a comprehensive survey of technology in the behavioral health and social service fields. It is the most complete and current directory of technology products and services available to the behavioral health and social service industry. Included are profiles of 75 vendors who provide technology products and services to the field, including key contact information, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, Web sites and e-mail addresses.......READ MORE

An OPEN MINDS publication on human resource and operations management in the behavioral health and social service fields. This special report focuses on the changes in the behavioral health and social service environmental conditions and the trends, which drive the need for new approaches to operations and human resource management.......READ MORE

An OPEN MINDS publication on strategic technology planning in the behavioral health and social service field. This special report contains information on the hottest trends, the newest technology, and the issues that are influencing the future of technology that affect the behavioral health and social service field.......READ MORE

This is a listing of U.S. Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) with specific information about behavioral health benefits. Provides key information about which HMOs provide behavioral health services in-house or by contracting with carve-out behavioral health organizations. The only book of its kind that reports on behavioral health services of Health Maintenance Organizations with detailed profiles of over 515 HMOs.......READ MORE