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New National Council Report: 2021 CCBHC Impact - 5/26/21

  • 1.  New National Council Report: 2021 CCBHC Impact - 5/26/21

    National Council Staff
    Posted 05-26-2021 18:01
    Dear Association Executives - Yesterday, the National Council publicly released a report with survey data detailing how adopting the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) model allows clinics to serve more people, expand their services, and improve collaboration with criminal justice agencies and hospitals to reduce burdens on police and emergency departments. 


    Expanding the CCBHC model is a core priority of the National Council, as it represents a transformational change in the way people access mental health and substance use services. So much so, that we made it our audacious aim to have 500 CCBHCs across the country by 2025.

    Achieving that aim means telling the story of CCBHCs and their success to support arguments for the program's expansion. To do so, we collected data from active CCBHCs earlier this year to be able to paint a clear picture of the program's effectiveness.

    The results of our 2021 CCBHC Impact Report – analyzed by our tireless CCBHC team and designed in-house by our amazing design team – are incredibly positive. See below for links to the report, press release and data highlights, plus the key findings typed out in the body of the email as well. We encourage you to share with your networks. If you have questions about the data, please email me directly or the CCBHC team at: ccbhc@thenationalcouncil.org.

    Key resources:

    Key findings:

    • CCBHCs are closing the treatment gap that leaves millions of Americans with unmet mental health and substance use needs, bringing thousands of new clients into care.
      • 851,565 people currently served across 128 responding clinics, with an estimated 1.5 million people served nationwide by all 224 CCBHCs active as of January 2021.
    • CCBHCs improve collaboration with criminal justice agencies and bolster crisis care coordination with hospitals.
      • 95% of CCBHCs are engaged in one or more innovative practices in collaboration with law enforcement and criminal justice agencies (mental health courts, training police and corrections officers and co-responding to mental health/SUD calls, etc.).
    • CCBHCs provide expanded access to substance use disorder treatment, helping communities make inroads against the opioid crisis.
      • 70% of CCBHCs offer two or more forms of medication-assisted treatment (MAT), the most effective treatment for opioid use disorder. Only 29% of substance use clinics nationwide offer two or more forms of MAT. Offering multiple forms of MAT is crucial, as some treatments work better than others for different people.

    Best,

    Becca

    Rebecca Farley David
    Senior Advisor, Public Policy & Special Initiatives
    National Council for Behavioral Health
    Direct: (202) 684-3735


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    Neal Comstock
    Director of Membership
    National Council
    NealC@TheNationalCouncil.org
    202 748-8793
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