CCBHCs Now Serve 3 Million People. It’s Just the Start.
It’s nice to get some good news occasionally, isn’t it? We know that too many people still do not have access to quality care when and where they need it, but our 2024 CCBHC Impact Report, published June 3, shows Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) are serving more people and doing so in creative ways.
An estimated 3 million people receive treatment and care from a CCBHC. CCBHCs are eliminating barriers to access one state at a time, one city at a time, one neighborhood at a time. Our Impact Report found that CCBHCs:
Expand access to substance use care: 87% of CCBHCs report offering one or more forms of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD), compared to only 64% of substance use treatment facilities nationwide.
Provide overdose prevention and support: 60% have already implemented the new Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) CCBHC certification requirement that individuals and/or families have access to naloxone for overdose reversal, ahead of the July 2024 deadline; 56% provide support following a nonfatal overdose after an individual is medically stable.
Meet children, youth and families where they are: 83% of CCBHCs provide services on-site in one or more schools or at child care or other youth-serving settings.
Support crisis care: More than 80% of CCBHCs have partnered with 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline call centers, ahead of the July 1 deadline to do so.
Work with law enforcement and correctional facilities: 98% of CCBHCs are actively engaged in partnership with criminal justice agencies to improve interactions with people who have mental health needs.
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Address health disparities and social determinants of health: CCBHCs have engaged in targeted access expansions to address health disparities, with 75% reporting increased outreach to individuals in historically underserved communities.
CCBHCs were originally implemented at 66 clinics in eight states through a Medicaid demonstration that began in 2017. Today, there are 495 CCBHCs in 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. But the need remains so overwhelming that we urge states to continue clinic expansion.
Our nation has ignored mental health and substance use challenges for far too long. Too many lawmakers simply haven’t shown the will to invest in programs over the long term that will help communities reduce suicides, overdoses or overdose deaths.
Gaping holes remain because lawmakers have continued to ignore the needs of people and communities. Gaping holes also remain in care for people of color. Social determinants of health – one’s race, where one lives, works, plays and prays – too often determine one’s access to care and dictate the quality of care.
But now we have a model of care that can fill those holes. CCBHCs serve anyone who walks through the door, regardless of ability to pay. These clinics are eligible to receive flexible funding to expand the scope of mental health and substance use services in their community.
So, let’s work with state legislators, governors and state and local health officials to expand CCBHCs. We’re here to help.
Our?CCBHC Success Center has a trove of valuable resources.
The?CCBHC-E National Training and Technical Assistance Center has resources related to certification, sustainability and use of evidence-based practices.
The CCBHC State Technical Assistance Center can help you learn more about implementing and strengthening the CCBHC model in your state.
And you can send us an email at [email protected] with other questions.
Check out our Impact Report and our press release. Together, we can ensure these successes are just the start of what CCBHCs can accomplish.
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8 个月Great news indeed Charles Ingoglia!!
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8 个月I worked in a MO CCBHC for 3 years. Anosognosia was never addressed and my colleagues were never educated on it, and enlightened when I taught them about it. We must do better. Programs like AOT also need to work hand in hand with CCBHCs.
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8 个月I have always appreciated you and your leadership Charles Ingoglia.
Volunteer Policy Director, MA, at National Shattering Silence Coalition on Steering & PAC committee(s) dedicated to improving our country’s treatment of serious brain illness. Spreading awareness on anosognosia & AOT.
8 个月There are those who need it the most that are unable to walk through the door, and it’s not because of insurance. They are too sick to know they are sick. There are 2 million untreated serious mental illness patients who churn through the prison system every year suffering with no insight into the fact they have a mental illness. Those suffering anosognosia are so trapped in their own psychosis they think they don’t need food to exist; give away all their belongings and live in abandoned cars talking to aliens they believe are sitting with them. I’m relaying conversations I had with my 22 yr old son with schizoaffective disorder. He never once thought he has a serious mental illness so never willingly stepped into those doors for help. We need AOT to help him help himself at those centers. Without it, you’ll never reach his population. #righttotreatment #treatmentb4tragedy #AOTnow
Yes, but do they serve people with SZ and SZA who almost never “walk through the door” due to anosognosia? How do we serve the sickest among us who are in deep psychosis? This is a rhetorical yet important question for community health organizations who rarely have people with lived experience guiding their decisions. The federal dollars for community health organizations are not prioritized under ACA. All mental health is considered equal from the most mild anxiety to the most severe schizophrenia. Which is harder and more expensive to treat? How has that contributed to the lack of mental healthcare treatment for the sickest among us? Who gets treated? It’s past time for this data to be influencing decisions. I think you will agree that these are important questions that far too few want to discuss but the time is now. I don’t want to hold anyone’s feet to the fire but having open doors isn’t enough if the sickest are not able to walk through the door.