Clinical Sustainability Assessment Tool (CSAT)

The Clinical Sustainability Assessment Tool (CSAT) is an online resource for understanding the capacity of a clinical practice (e.g., mental health screening procedures) to be maintained over time. The process of using the tool is broken down into four components that help users to understand, assess, review, and use factors that influence clinical sustainability to develop an action plan to increase the likelihood of doing so. The tool itself includes 35 questions across seven domains of sustainability and takes about 10-15 minutes for an individual or group to complete across a wide variety of clinical practice settings. Upon completion, you can view an automated summary of your results.

Planning for sustainability enables you to understand and strategically leverage your structures and processes to manage through challenges and maintain clinical practices and benefits over time. This resource is evidence-based, virtually accessible, and no-cost. The terminology of this tool has been tailored to better translate well into clinical care versus generic program language.