Behavioral & Mental Health Workshop Resources and Sponsor Partners

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

The BestCare^® Dignity Suite is a curated collection of ligature-resistant bathroom products. Designed to keep patients and staff safe while still offering a peaceful and well-balanced environment. The Dignity Suite is one of four BestCare suite packages and includes fixtures such as the shower, sink, and toilet, as well as accessories like mirrors and faucets.

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

Valet Lounge Collection – Valet, a new lounge series offering soft design lines that invite patients and visitors to sit in comfort, creating a space of respite in any healthcare or behavioral health environment. The lounge collection for healthcare offers high-backs and swivel bases. Valet for BH includes a BH-grade highly durable base.

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

Designed for comfort and built to last, our soft-seating solutions specifically for Behavioral Health applications are durable, sturdy, and safe. With bariatric models available, we ensure all patients have a comfortable seat. Heavy-duty oval, drum, or cube tables complement our seating lines and can be specified with solid surface tops.

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

Altro Whiterock was introduced over 35 years ago, creating the first floor to wall integrated system and has been a market leader ever since. Providing creative freedom to designers, specifiers and end users, our growing Altro Walls portfolio now offers a variety of safe, durable and hygienic wall panels - from cool, crisp white to vibrant colors and patterns as well as custom art designs.

Leaders in the design of humane therapeutic environments providing unparalleled breadth and depth of expertise in mental health treatment settings

architecture+ has created over 25,000 mental health beds in forty-two states and provinces including mental health master planning for multi-hospital systems, free-standing hospitals, free-standing psychiatric emergency departments/crisis centers, mental health units, outpatient clinics, academic research facilities, substance abuse treatment centers, and facilities for adult and geriatric patients and children and adolescents.

Norix high-quality, durable furniture is specially designed for challenging behavioral healthcare environments. Norix products go beyond institutional furniture, integrating contemporary design and color with robust structural integrity and safety.

Behavioral Healthcare facilities rely on Norix in nearly every space where safe, easily cleanable furniture is needed. Administrators choose Norix for everything from unsupervised, highly secure areas where self-harm demands mitigation, to functional supervised areas, to attractive front-of-house furnishings.

Accurate Lock and Hardware offers an extensive range of ligature resistant and ADA-compliant products that positively contribute to healing environments. Proudly made in the USA.

The LR-EX Ligature Resistant Exit Device is a unique solution that retrofits panic device trim to create a ligature resistant opening— now there are no limits, no compromise for life safety openings. Ideal for adapting often overlooked exit device components with non-compliant trim, the LR-EX Series upgrades these common openings without affecting the rating of existing trim. This innovative and commercially available product helps to bring all doors throughout a facility to compliance and beyond.

The use of design to address social, environmental, economic issues and focus on a holistic and responsible approach that embraces ethical, cultural, and humanitarian values.

GMI’s approach to behavioral healthcare design is to foster patient centered care in a healing place through careful planning and design. Our primary interest is to conceptualize, and then to realize settings that accommodate human activity. We know that architecture can support the functional and spiritual needs of people.