WRCAC Telemental Health Resource Center

Overview

Background
Research
About Us

Getting Started

Introduction
Creating Buy-In
Assessing Readiness
Program Development
Implementation
Documentation
Location 
Training
Reimbursement 
Sustainability

Clinical

Introduction
Clinical Guidelines
Confidentiality
Ethical Issues
Delivering EBTs
Engagement
Retention
Supervision
Training
Mobile Applications

Technology

Introduction
Set-Up Guides and Toolkits
Internet Access
Video Platforms
Contingency Plans

Legal/ Regulatory

Introduction
HIPAA
Cross-State Issues
Licensing
Insurance
Compliance

Resources

Introduction
State-Level Resources
Federal Resources
Funding
Telehealth Resources

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Welcome to the Telemental Health Resource Center

The WRCAC Telemental Health Resource Center is designed to provide information and access to current resources regarding telemental health, with an emphasis on the unique needs of CACs and their clients and staff. Resources range from guides for setting up or enhancing a telemental health program, to legal and regulatory information, and everything in between, including practical clinical applications, technology basics, and funding options to help build or update a telemental health program.  Information can be accessed using the navigator bar on the left side of the page.

COVID-19 Telemental Health Resources

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many CACs and clinicians are transitioning to telemental health to maintain essential services. Vital information and resources for CACs considering telemental health options during COVID-19 are available on our COVID-19 Telemental Health Resources page.

COVID-19 TMH Resources

WRCAC Telemental Health Issue Briefs

Recruiting, Hiring, Supervising, and Retaining Remote Therapists for Rural Children’s Advocacy Centers

September 2022

This issue brief explores strategies to recruit and retain qualified mental health professionals who will work remotely to serve CAC clients via telemental health. Areas addressed include interviewing and selecting a candidate the CAC may never have met in person, remote onboarding, issues in supervision, and helping remote clinicians manage secondary traumatic stress.

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Task Sharing in a Children’s Advocacy Center: The Role of Victim Advocates in Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Children & Families

December 2021

This issue brief examines task sharing in the CAC context and promotes the active collaboration between the CAC victim advocate and the child’s therapist as a task sharing team, especially in rural areas where the therapist may provide services remotely through telemental health.

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Expanding In-Person Mental Health Services Within a Children’s Advocacy Center as the Pandemic Recedes

June 2021

This issue brief carefully examines how to navigate the myriad of issues affecting decision-making regarding the return to more in-person treatment and recommends items for CACs to consider when providing in-person mental health care as part of their service continuum.

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Moving to Telemental Health in a Child Advocacy Center Environment

April 2020

There are many advantages to developing the capacity to deliver trauma-focused telemental health (TMH) services to children’s advocacy center (CAC) clients. As CACs make the transition to TMH services, there are many things to consider. This issue brief offers answers to commonly asked questions.

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