The Role of CCBHCs in Reducing Incarceration

CCBHCs can reduce justice involvement through behavioral health access, crisis response, and coordinated community care.
The post The Role of CCBHCs in Reducing Incarceration appeared first on Behavioral Health News. For decades, jails and prisons have functioned as the nation’s largest, and least appropriate, providers of mental health and substance use treatment. People with untreated serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorders (SUD) often move repeatedly through arrest, incarceration, release, and re‑arrest — a cycle driven by the absence of consistent, community‑based treatment that could interrupt this pattern. The Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) model was designed in part to change that trajectory, and a growing body of evidence suggests it is working. What Is a CCBHC? CCBHCs… — Read More