Alaska’s Growing Behavioral Health Aide Workforce
Behavioral health aides help provide a community-based resource for people in rural and remote Alaska.
Behavioral health aides help provide a community-based resource for people in rural and remote Alaska.
How a community partnership with law enforcement helps divert people from a law enforcement response.
Virginia has developed a statewide 911 behavioral health call diversion matrix and protocols.
Many schools have a police presence but are without in-school mental health services. Youth mobile response can fill in the gaps.
“Working together, we can build a mental health and suicide prevention system that is genuinely joined up, properly resourced and provides for all Australians the most simple but powerful comfort: that they matter” -The Hon Scott Morrison MP, Prime Minister of Australia on releasing the National Mental Health and Suicide
Employment barriers present challenges for people in recovery and for expanding the behavioral health peer workforce.
Robust partnerships between behavioral health and Medicaid allow them to focus on a common goal: helping people get the care they need.
The power of shared decision-making and self-care in mental health.
Home and community-based services for mental health and substance use challenges can help fill in crisis system gaps.
Interactive calculator helps communities determine in-person mental health capacity needs and how system costs shift if they incorporate crisis care elements.