Behavioral & Mental Health Workshop Resources and Sponsor Partners

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

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

Made from recycled material, the Lotus Casegoods Collection includes highly durable beds, desks, tables and shelves in a wood grain inspired finish. The double-wall bed construction, proprietary joinery system, and ligature-resistant features are intentionally designed for Behavioral Health spaces.

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. 

Meet the Apricus chair, a stylish and robust addition to Spec's Behavioral Health lounge seating lineup. Taking invaluable insights we've gained from the success of our award-winning Dignity chair and packaging them into a new design, Apricus embodies our commitment to merging comforting aesthetics with enduring functionality.

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.

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

Whitehall Manufacturing offers healthcare plumbing solutions, including the Dual Occupancy Suite with BestCare® ligature-resistant, ADA-compliant, and bariatric-friendly fixtures; the Single Occupancy Suite for individual use; and the Dignity Suite, enhancing bathroom accessibility with ligature-resistant, ADA-compliant fixtures promoting independence and dignity.

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.

Visa Lighting combines safety and beauty to behavioral healthcare lighting to provide optimal healing 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.

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.

With over 10,000 de-risking projects completed globally, Kingsway Group are experts in ligature-resistant design for behavioral health, specializing in complete door systems, patient safety & well-being technologies, Division 10 products and more.

As Your Partner in Patient Safety, we exist to support you in de-risking clinical environments, focusing on both staff and service user safety. Through constant innovation and collaboration with architects, clinical & facilities teams, construction partners, and people with lived experience, our customizable product range helps you create homely, therapeutic, and safe environments to support healing and patient care.

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

A culmination of over 40 years of experience designing robust furniture for intensive-use environments, the Arcadian Series offers the reliability you expect from Norix products in a refreshing new look. Arcadian utilizes a unique blend of residential aesthetics and robust durability to form visually pleasing pieces, engineered for challenging environments.

Proximity creates solutions that put Care Within Reach. Our American-made wall-mounted workstations facilitate improved interactions and experiences.

Proximity enhances healthcare by connecting patients, caregivers, and crucial information. Our technology improves safety, efficiency, and satisfaction, creating a more seamless and personalized experience. Choose from our standard cabinet options or customize a design to fit your technology needs.

Together, we design for good. We listen to architects, experts by experience, clinicians, and facility teams to understand the impact of thoughtful design in behavioral health care.

With 90% of inpatient suicides occurring in bedrooms or bathrooms, our purpose is to protect those in vulnerable times. Driven by customer and patient feedback, our in-house engineering team designed the fastest anti-barricade doorset and safest ligature-resistant bathroom door, both meeting the highest safety standards while fostering therapeutic recovery.

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.

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.

At LIGHTGLASS, our mission is to improve the quality of people’s lives by bringing the day lighting experience to light-deprived spaces.

Lighting should improve the quality of our lives. LIGHTGLASS is a windowlight, an architectural element that brings the natural experience of a daylit window into any space. Through the integration of the latest LED lighting technology into the form and materials of a window, LIGHTGLASS is nearly indiscernible from a real window.

We design, engineer and fit specialist solutions for mental healthcare settings including our own range of anti-ligature windows and ironmongery, plus bespoke anti-climb fencing, rollers and products. Everything we do is made to deliver exceptional safety, security, sustainability and value.

We believe working in collaboration is the best way to create the right solution for your unique setting and the results you want to achieve, now and long-term. With over 20 years’ experience in the specialist glazing and engineering sector we work alongside architects, facilities management teams and healthcare professionals, to share best practice and develop pioneering, people-centred products to support mental health. We work with you from design to installation so you’ll be partnering with knowledgeable experts every step of the way.