Patient and Family Engagement in Primary Care
This comprehensive guide from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality defines warm handoffs and explains why to use them, then outlines step-by-step implementation.
Recovery and Recovery Support
SAMHSA’s website introduces basic concepts of recovery, links to resources, and discusses the importance of cultural awareness and competency.
National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care: Best Practice Toolkit
SAMHSA’s National Guidelines are aimed at “mental health authorities, agency administrators, service providers, [and] state and local leaders,” helping them align their practices with the guidelines and evaluating implementation efforts.
Implementation of buprenorphine initiation and warm handoff protocols in emergency departments: A qualitative study of Pennsylvania hospitals
This research article (2022) “examined hospital staff’s perspectives on the processes, challenges, and facilitators to buprenorphine initiation and warm handoff protocols in the [emergency department].”
Implementation Quick Start Guide: Warm Handoff
This comprehensive guide defines warm handoffs and explains why to use them, then outlines step-by-step implementation.
Warm Handoffs for In-person and Virtual Services
This three-page resource from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing introduces the concept and benefits of warm handoffs, explains best practices, and offers tips.
Increasing Warm Handoffs: Optimizing Community Based Referrals in Primary Care Using QI Methodology
This article, published in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health in 2021, “illustrate[d] illustrate that [quality improvement] methods can be used to optimize workflows to increase warm handoffs with [Community Health Workers].”
Warm Handoff Community Paramedicine – Opioids
The Warm Handoff website collects several opioid-related news reports, webinars, and journal articles.
Recovery Support Services
IDHS provides a list of recovery support services including statewide Recovery & Empowerment calls, Wellness Recovery Action Plan, Certified Recovery Support Specialists, Recovery Services Development Group, and recovery education.
Treatment of Stimulant Use Disorders
“This guide, produced by SAMHSA, supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to treat stimulant use disorders. It describes relevant research findings, examines best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources.”