The Utah MHIDD Training Initiative

Project Overview

The Utah Mental Health and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (MHIDD) Training Initiative is a five-year grant funded by the Administration on Community Living (ACL). The funding program’s goal is to improve services and supports for people with co-occurring intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and mental health concerns, including services and supports that are more culturally competent, person-centered, affordable, and integrated that allow them to remain in the community.

This project began in 2021 and concludes in 2026. The project consists of three phases:
1) A statewide Landscape Analysis
2) Development of an Action Plan to address training needs
3) Implementation of the training plan to improve competencies

Current MHIDD Training Opportunities

 

The Utah MHIDD Training Initiative is currently offering an ECHO training series for mental health professionals and disability service providers (ECHO model). The objectives of the ECHO series are:

• Increase mental health provider knowledge and capacity to provide effective mental health services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Increase disability service provider knowledge of available mental health services.
• Increase collaboration and coordination between disability and mental health services providers.