Technology Transfer Center Resources for Older Adults
Resources for Older Adults from Technology Transfer Centers.
Need Help?
If you need suicide or mental health-related crisis support, or are worried about someone else, please call or text 1-800-273-8255 or visit the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s chat to connect with a trained crisis counselor.
You may also call SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or TTY: 1-800-487-4889 or use the SAMHSA’s Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator to get help.
Technology Transfer Centers (TTC) Program
The purpose of the Technology Transfer Centers (TTC) is to develop and strengthen the specialized behavioral healthcare and primary healthcare workforce that provides prevention, treatment and recovery support services for substance use disorder (SUD) and mental illness. At each TTC site, search terms such as older adults, geriatric, and seniors.
Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Resources
- LGBT Elders after COVID: Healing, Emerging, Connecting Recording
- Technology: Serving the “Silver Tsunami” On A Silver Platter
- Grief and Loss: An Active Approach for Older Adults
- Older Adult System-of-Care Framework Readiness Assessment
- Session One: Rural Social Isolation and Loneliness: Rates, Importance, and Identifying Risk, Session Two
- Mental Health Issues Among Older Hispanic and Latino Adults in the United States
- COVID-19 and Mental Health Resources: For Diverse Populations and Providers Who Support Them
- Improving Services for Older Americans: Emerging Factors Fact Sheet
- Older Latinos in the U.S.: Mental Health Issues
- Research Brief: Integrated Care for Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness and Medical Comorbidity: Evidence-Based Models and Future Research Directions
Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Resources
- Engaging LGBT Elders in Prevention Programs During COVID-19 South
- Southwest PTTC- July 2020 - Prevention Across the Lifespan: Older Adults
Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Resources
- Cannabis Webinar Series: Cannabis Use Among Older Adults
- Engaging LGBT Elders in Prevention Programs
- Getting Paid: Medicare, Opioid Screening, Intervention, and Treatment and Older Adults
- CLAS in BH: Working with the Aging Population (webinar)
- Substance Use in Older Adults: Screening and Treatment Intervention Strategies HealtheKnowledge Online Course
- Housing with Special Populations Part 1, Part 2