Identifying CCBHCs’ effects in different justice settings can be difficult as public health and public safety budgets are managed separately with separate data tracking systems and indicators for success. Two CCBHCs have data on their impacts to the justice systems and how those within justice settings have also supported increased…
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated behavioral health needs in the United States, resulting in a swift and unexpected pivot to telehealth services for mental health and substance use services to fill gaps in care. Even now, providers continue to grapple with the implications. What works? What isn’t working? What unexpected solutions…
Beginning July 16, 2022, 988 will be the new, easy to remember three-digit dialing code connecting people to the existing National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (Lifeline), where free and confidential support is available 24/7 nationwide for anyone experiencing a mental health or suicide crisis, or any other kind of emotional…
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) are transforming access to addiction and mental illness care. CCBHCs must meet stringent criteria regarding timeliness of access, care coordination, quality reporting, staffing and scope of services. In return, they receive Medicaid payment based on a prospective payment system (PPS). States and the federal…
SAMHSA CCBHC certification requirements include a requirement that CCBHC’s have a medical director as part of their executive team and that the medical director be responsible for facilitating the integration of care and clinical standards of care. To assist CCBHC’s with meeting these requirements the MDI has developed a…
Learn how states can use the CCBHC model to streamline mobile crisis response and other mental health and substance use services, including 988.
The purpose of this paper is to present the Comprehensive Healthcare Integration Framework, a new framework for guiding implementation of integration of physical health and behavioral health (mental health and substance use conditions).