Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
E. Douglas Varney, Commissioner

Collaborations

The Division of Clinical Leadership is involved in service system issue resolution and creative endeavors to increase and/or improve mental health services through agency and departmental collaboration as members of the following committees:

• Tennessee Lives Count Task Force
• Tennessee Commission on Children & Youth
  
• Administrative Office of the Courts
  
• Centerstone Research Institute
  
• Fort Campbell’s Suicide Prevention Task Force
  
• Governor’s Office of Children’s Care Coordination
  
• Regional and Statewide Suicide Prevention Network Conferences and Activities
• All Managed Care Organizations
  
• TennCare Bureau
  
• Tennessee Department of Health
  
• Tennessee Department of Children's Services
  
• Tennessee Suicide Prevention Advisory Council
  
• Tennessee Suicide Prevention Intra-State Departments Committee
  
• University of Tennessee, Memphis
  
• Statewide Disproportionate Minority Contact Taskforce
  
• Tennessee Association of Mental Health Organizations
• Tennessee Department of Intellectual Disabilities & Developmental Disabilities