The Center for Practice Innovations (CPI) supports the New York State Office of Mental Health’s mission to promote the widespread availability of evidence-based practices to improve mental health services, ensure accountability, and promote recovery-oriented outcomes for consumers and families. The CPI serves as a key resource to OMH by spreading those practices identified by OMH as most critical to accomplish OMH’s system-transformation initiatives.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H. as the Director of the Center for Practice Innovations, effective April 1, 2012. In addition to leading our Center, Dr. Dixon will serve as the Medical Director of New York State Psychiatric Institute’s Lieber Clinic. To read the full article, click here.

The NYS OMH has established new expectations for the training of ACT team members including newly hired staff, staff who have been ACT team members for some time, and team leaders. Read more.

Beginning in 2011, the Western Regional Field Office began to actively encourage our programs to participate in the free resources offered by FIT. Read more.