MAP Training and Consulting Services

The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) is contracting with Practicewise LLC for $914,387.00 for the procurement of MAP Training and Consulting that will improve the quality, efficiency, and outcomes of children's mental health services by giving administrators and practitioners easy access to the most current scientific information and by providing user-friendly monitoring tools and clinical protocols. Using an online database, the system can suggest formal evidence-based programs or, alternatively, can provide detailed recommendations about discrete components of evidence-based treatments relevant to a specific youth's characteristics. Consequently, OMH will receive a greater value by investing in MAP training, as the acquired skills will be relevant to nearly all the children and families being served by OMH facilities. Additionally, this agreement will also provide OMH the availability of licenses to the Practicewise Online Information Resources to provide evidence-informed mental health care. The additional cost for the professional licenses is for the long-term sustainability plan, so that Practicewise can support agency level supervisors and broader agency-level saturation of training; and explore integration within EHR systems to better incentivize participation in the training. This, along with the plans with CTAC on EBTDC, will allow Practicewise to achieve more scalability of the model statewide and align with their plans to comply with the Children’s Settlement, for greater use of EBP models by clinicians in NYS. OMH has been engaged in providing training and support to clinicians in evidence-based practices. Until now, it was necessary to choose a particular disorder and an evidence-based treatment for it as the topic of training. OMH will receive a greater value by investing in MAP training as these skills will be appropriate for nearly all the children and families OMH serves and covers a wide variety of mental illnesses and disorders.