This app lets mental health clinicians and providers find vetted, trusted guidance and answers to complex questions around serious mental illness (SMI). Through its website and app, SMI CalAdviser supports you with:
• Education
High-quality webinars that offer expert guidance on key topics and provide continuing education credits

• Resources
Vetted fact sheets, toolkits, guides, and tools that provide answers and support clinical decisions

• Consultations
Clinical consultations for any clinician and provider who works in DSH or its community partners

Plus, the app offers access to gold-standard mental health assessments! This may be useful when you work with patients. It gives you:
• On-the-go access to use these tools when and where they may be helpful.
• Real-time feedback and scores based on the data that you input.

SMI CalAdviser's mission is to advance care for people who have serious mental illness (SMI) and are found incompetent to stand trial (IST) in California. It helps improve the knowledge and skills of anyone who plays a role in the treatment and support of SMI and IST. SMI CalAdviser is useful across the whole mental health continuum of care. This includes correctional settings, state hospitals, and community partners.

*NOTE -- Some areas of the app are not open to the general public, such as education and consultations. These are only for employees of the State of California Department of State Hospitals (DSH) and its community partners.

SMI CalAdviser is funded by the State of California Department of State Hospitals (DSH) and administered by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

Funding for SMI CalAdviser was made possible by the State of California Department of State Hospitals (DSH) (the Department), but does not necessarily represent the views of the Department or any of its employees except to the extent, if any, that it has formally been approved by the Department.

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SMI CalAdviser is provided for general educational and informational purposes. It should not be construed as medical advice in connection with the care of a particular patient or as a statement of a professional or general standard of care. It is not necessarily inclusive of all potential treatments. The activities and materials offered through SMI CalAdviser should not be considered as providing the basis for any certification or authorization to evaluate, diagnose, or treat patients, or to prescribe or administer medication, therapy, surgeries, or other modalities. SMI CalAdviser is not intended to be a substitute for independent professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. SMI CalAdviser consultants and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) do not endorse or recommend any pharmaceutical or other treatment as an appropriate course for any particular patient or condition. The advice of a physician or other qualified health provider should be obtained for a treatment recommendation or to answer any questions regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read or seen on SMI CalAdviser. SMI CalAdviser is provided as-is and is not guaranteed to be correct, complete or current. APA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, about the accuracy, applicability, fitness, completeness or reliability of the information contained within SMI CalAdviser. APA assumes no responsibility for any injury or damage to persons or property arising out of or related to any use of SMI CalAdviser or for any errors or omissions. Nothing herein constitutes the practice of professionally licensed activity, and no physician-patient, psychotherapist-patient, or attorney-client relationship is established by the utilization, in any way, of the information contained herein. Additional terms and conditions applicable to the SMI CalAdviser consultation feature are set forth at: https://smicaladviser.org/limitations-of-consultation/