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    Home»Industry News»Free Behavioral & Mental Health Toolbox Expands Resources
    April 10, 2020

    Free Behavioral & Mental Health Toolbox Expands Resources

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    The Center for Health Design has expanded the Behavioral & Mental Health Toolbox with new resources. Each toolbox contains a library of center staff-curated content – research findings, expert insights, strategies, tools and other useful resources connecting the built environment to better health outcomes and reduced cost of care.

    Typically, a portion of each Topic Toolboxes is free and open to all, while Affiliate+ members have access to the complete toolbox. The center, in partnership with Accurate Lock & Hardware, architecture+, Whitehall Manufacturing and Altro, is providing free and open access to all behavioral & mental health materials produced for this toolbox through March 2021.

    Originally launched in 2018, this toolbox is designed to assist healthcare organizations, designers, suppliers and others involved in the planning, design, construction and operation of behavioral and mental health facilities with pertinent tools. New resources to this toolbox include:

    Issue Brief and Executive Summary
    Memory Care: The Intersection of Aging and Mental Health

    Tool
    Dementia-Supportive Environments: Considerations Tool

    Design Strategies
    Aging and Dementia Design Strategies

    Webinars 
    The Building as a Therapeutic Tool: Creating a Children’s Treatment Center
    Adapting Existing Healthcare Spaces to Suit Behavioral Health Requirements
    The Spaces In-between: Changing Policy by Design
    Lighting Design for Behavioral Health Environments
    Behavioral Health Crisis Stabilization Unit: A Solution to an Overcrowded ED
    Comprehensive Test Methods for Products in Behavioral Health Environments at the Design in Mental Health Network

    EDAC Advocate Firm Case Studies
    Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Thompson Autism Center, Orange, Calif.
    William T. Evjue Clinic – Access Community Health Centers, Madison, Wis.
    Spero Academy, Minneapolis, Minn.

    Podcast 
    Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 Podcast Episode 21: Suzanne Fawley – behavioral health consultant, Stance Healthcare

    To access the complete toolbox, click here.

    Architecture Behavioral & Mental Health Toolbox Center for Health Design mental healthcare

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