How Lifeline Chat Can Serve People at Their Most Vulnerable
Young people and those with a higher intensity of symptoms are more apt to reach out by chat.
How States Can Use One-Year HCBS Funding Bump to Expand Crisis Systems
Tom Betlach shares how states can use a one-year HCBS 10% federal medical assistance percentage bump to build out their behavioral health crisis systems in preparation for 988. Today is the deadline.
How Montana Is Redesigning Crisis Services in a Rural Landscape
Today we sit down with the team responsible for helping redesign crisis services in Montana. They share the challenges they’ve faced with the pandemic, overcoming vast distances of rural land, and innovations that are paving the way for change, including mobile crisis services and a brand new Lifeline member call
COVID-19: Behavioral Health Core Crisis Continuum as Essential Services
Behavioral health crisis services are a vital player to decrease community exposure for people in psychological distress, diverting them from emergency departments overburdened by COVID-19.
Stuart Gordon on Getting the Mental Health Field Upstream Through Crisis Services Mental Health Block Grant Set-Aside
Stuart Gordon, J.D. says it’s time that mental health move upstream, allowing people to get the services they need far earlier. “What we are experiencing in mental health is like the parable of babies in the river. We focus on pulling babies out of the river, but no one is
Leaders in Private and Public Insurance Sectors and Mental Health Must Establish Codes for Crisis Care Services
Dr. Brian Hepburn, executive director of NASMHPD, says crisis services divert people experiencing mental health crises from the Emergency Department and jails. It matches behavioral health care to the acuity people are experiencing, but funding remains nearly entirely public, hindering much-needed growth.