In response to an invitation, UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske, PhD, presented an overview of the STAND system of care at a meeting of the University of California Brain and Behavioral Health Consortium on Oct. 30, 2025. The consortium is charged with identifying pathways for University of California Health to improve California communities’ access to behavioral health care services. 

The October meeting specifically focused on identifying scalable, UC-developed approaches that, with greater investment, could address behavioral health needs of Californians.

Craske’s presentation reviewed the end-to-end features of STAND, which integrates screening, triage for level of care, service delivery, ongoing symptom monitoring, risk response and adaptive treatment calibration, and experiences to date. The DGC has already implemented STAND for service and research use cases at UCLA and East Los Angeles College, which appealed to the consortium.