Behavioral & Mental Health Workshop Resources and Sponsor Partners

Improving Lives by Design. We believe a better environment can make all the difference for patients, visitors, and care providers.  

The Kiwi Bean Bag Chair provides patients with a therapeutic and calming experience. The best of both worlds, these chairs offer a perfect fusion of functionality and comfort. This lightweight seating option features a non-skid grip bottom, locking zipper closure for safety, and replaceable cover.

Accurate Lock & Hardware learns from the past and designs for the future of healthcare.  

Offering an extensive range of American-made ligature resistant and ADA-compliant products that positively contribute to healing environments, Accurate’s team of experts are dedicated to developing innovative solutions for specific challenges. Accurate products are made entirely in the USA, allowing the ability to quickly adjust, adapt and produce the best solutions to meet the ever-changing needs of the healthcare industry.

Nationally renowned and internationally recognized mental health care facilities planning and design experts.

architecture+ offers expert master planning for multi-hospital systems, free-standing hospitals, psychiatric emergency departments, crisis centers, mental health units, outpatient clinics, academic research facilities, substance abuse treatment centers, and child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric facilities.

25,000+ Mental Health Beds in 45 States and Provinces

At Spec™, we are leaders in Behavioral Health furniture. For more than three decades, we have furnished countless facilities—supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised—with designs that have care at their core and warmth in their style. 

Our Behavioral Health offering has grown by a light-in-scale Tailor chair offering heavyweight features, including a sled-base frame, fully enclosed upholstery, tamper-resistant fasteners, and added weight. We are offering a complete suite of products for Behavioral Health activity spaces, cafeterias, lounges, patient rooms, and more. 

Norix – At Norix, we design innovative, robust furniture that meets the real-world need for humanizing challenging environments.

Norix is the trusted leader in durable furniture for nearly any environment. With a constant drive towards safe and attractive furniture for over 40 years, Norix products are trusted throughout the many industries we serve.

Since 1946, Whitehall Manufacturing has been an industry leader in the healthcare plumbing products sector.

Whitehall® Manufacturing’s Dual Occupancy Suite is a package of BestCare® Ligature-Resistant, ADA compliant, bariatric-friendly restroom fixtures and accessories. Featuring a two-station COVE custom-fit sink as well as two of each accessory, this suite is perfect for shared spaces. Whitehall is the North American manufacturer of the entire Dual Occupancy Suite.

Altro is a world-leading manufacturer and innovator in commercial floors and walls.

Altro offers a specialized portfolio of integrated floor and wall solutions readily available to help you create behavioral and mental health environments that balance wellness and healing with safety and security. These practical fit-for-purpose design options offer ligature-resistant finishes that comply with FGI Guidelines established for both high-risk and low-risk area types.

We create mindfully designed furniture that is exactly fit for purpose to transform challenging environments.

We create mindfully designed furniture that is exactly fit for purpose in transforming challenging environments; from behavioral health facilities and hospitals, to correctional settings.

We take the time to listen, and understand what really matters, we can match your requirements to the products or services that deliver the ideal solution for you; all while ensuring even the smallest of details are designed for your peace of mind.

Global design firm with a focus on designing environments that foster recovery in behavioral health patients using research-informed methods.

At HDR, we believe that every healthcare environment should be as unique as its context. That’s why we embrace a deep understanding of our clients’ missions and design facilities, strategies, processes, and technology experiences with empathy for patients, families, and staff to improve health through inspired design.

ModuForm has been designing and manufacturing safe, secure, durable, and welcoming furniture for behavioral health hospitals to support the therapy objectives that improve the patient experience since 1976.

ModuForm’s new Sunday lounge chair has been designed to offer unsurpassed comfort with a higher level of safety and security. Its high-density polyurethane foam, superior frame construction, and high-impact and sealed plinth base make Sunday a compassionate and vigilant lounging option for addressing patient and clinician welfare to improve outcomes.

Safehinge Primera designs doorsets for behavioral health environments that reduce the risk of suicide and address design details that aid in therapeutic recovery. 

Safehinge Primera’s in-house engineering team is continuously driven by customer and patient feedback. These insights helped to design our anti-barricade doorset which is the fastest and safest in behavioral health, with emergency access in under five seconds. Working closely with clinical staff and lived experience users also informed the design of our ligature-resistant bathroom door that releases under a maximum weight of 11lbs. 

Award-Winning, Nationally Recognized Design for Wholistic Behavioral Health Recovery

Page’s passionate Behavioral Health team has been curating care through collaborating with the nation’s leading clinicians creating innovative, trauma-informed, recovery-focused therapeutic care environments. We specialize in the full continuum of care including inpatient and outpatient facilities, psychiatric emergency centers, crisis centers, and therapeutic environments for all ages.

When it comes to patient and staff safety, behavioral health facilities need light fixtures that are tested and proven to perform to the highest standard in these specialty environments.

The Visa Lighting Behavioral Health / high abuse lighting collection is engineered to be extremely robust with ligature resistance and tamper-resistant fasteners. It is equally important that these specialized luminaires are beautiful, non-institutional in style, and produce high-quality illumination to best complete the design of patient-centered behavioral health spaces. 

The experts in ligature resistant and anti-barricade design for complete door systems, smart technologies and washroom accessories.

Kingsway Group are leaders in innovation for anti-ligature and anti-barricade complete door systems to improve safety for service users and staff teams. Our reputation has been built on listening to partners specific needs and using our considerable design, innovation and manufacturing expertise to deliver a best value solution.

For 65 years, Sherwood Windows has provided exceptional custom fenestration solutions for mental health facilities, detention centers, and institutional construction.

Our wide range of products have been developed and enhanced through ongoing consultation with owners, architects, spec‑writers, engineers and contractors. Our technically knowledgeable team participates in the design and specification of glazing products to meet the vision of the architect and owner.