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Building Bridges:
Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Addiction: Consumers and Service Providers, Policymakers, and Researchers in Dialogue

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Dissemination Strategies

Dialogue participants suggested that the “Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Addiction: Consumers and Service Providers, Policymakers, and Researchers in Dialogue” and “Mental Health Consumers and Members of Faith-Based and Community Organizations in Dialogue” monographs be disseminated to the groups listed below. The list also can serve as a checklist of groups to involve in future co-occurring initiatives at the State and local levels.

Public Sector

• Department of Health and Human Services leadership and relevant agencies
  
• Department of Housing and Urban Development leadership and relevant agencies
  
• Department of Veterans Affairs leadership and relevant agencies
  
• National Institutes of Health leadership and relevant institutes
  
• Tribal communities
  
• Bureau of Indian Health
  
• Elected officials at all levels of government
  
• State mental health and substance abuse agencies

Faith-Based Organizations

• National leadership of faith organizations
  
• American Association of Pastoral Counselors
  
• Faith-based media outlets

Providers/Associations

• First responder groups (Red Cross, Salvation Army)
  
• Guilds for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and nurses
  
• Consumer and family member organizations, CONTAC, the Self Help Clearinghouse, DBSA, NAMI, NMHA, and others
  
• International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services
  
• Law enforcement/criminal justice systems
  
• Community-based social service providers
  
• Immigrant services
  
• Rosalynn Carter Institute for Human Development
  
• Housing advocates
  
• Homeless support groups
  
• Social service systems that address substance abuse issues
  
• Minority mental health organizations (e.g., National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association)
  
• Associations of medical schools
  
• Vocational workers
  
• Self-help consumer groups and consumer-operated services
  
• Community support programs, including drop-in programs
  
• SAMHSA/CMHS Consumer and Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Centers
  
• American Medical Association
  
• Organizations that advocate for the Americans with Disabilities Act
  
• Recovery support programs
  
• SAMHSA ATTCs
  
• National Association of State Mental Health Directors (NASMHD) and National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD)
  
• SAAS Therapeutic Communities of America
  
• American Psychological Association
  
• American Psychiatric Association
  
• Eating disorders associations
  
• LGBT (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) groups
  
• HIV and AIDs-related organizations
  
• American Public Health Associaton
  
• Disability organizations

Schools

Academic training programs for mental health care providers

Residency training programs

Media

General media

Ethnic media

Printed 2004