Geographic Scope: Bernalillo County

This governance diagram illustrates how subcommittees, a Steering Committee, and the governing body interact to review, vet, and allocate BHI funds — making it the essential reference for anyone seeking to engage with or influence BHI decision-making.

This 2023 Bernalillo County Behavioral Health Initiative Working Group report provides comprehensive recommendations for transforming fragmented behavioral health services into a coordinated system of care through structural reorganization, strategic partnerships, and enhanced funding mechanisms.

This 2002 comprehensive statewide assessment of behavioral health needs and gaps in New Mexico provides foundational prevalence data, system barrier analysis, and detailed recommendations that remain relevant for understanding structural challenges facing behavioral health systems change in Bernalillo County and throughout the state.

This chapter from a comprehensive New Mexico behavioral health assessment provides detailed recommendations for creating a unified, accountable statewide behavioral health system through improved governance, service standardization, workforce development, and strategic funding reforms.

This internal audit of Bernalillo County's Behavioral Health Services departments identifies critical gaps in strategic planning, policies, procedures, and contract administration that must be addressed to ensure effective deployment of behavioral health gross receipts tax revenues and coordinated systems change.

This is Bernalillo County's foundational Behavioral Health Strategic Plan 2025-2028, establishing a new Division of Behavioral Health with three departments and comprehensive infrastructure to transform the County's fragmented behavioral health services into a coordinated, evidence-based system of care.

This is UNM Health's 2024 Behavioral Services Directory, a comprehensive catalog of acute, outpatient, and community-based behavioral health programs serving Bernalillo County that provides essential service mapping for behavioral health systems planning and care coordination.

This 2021 gap analysis identifies the fragmented, uncoordinated behavioral health system between the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County as the primary barrier to effective care, providing a roadmap for creating a unified system of care that matters because it consolidates over a decade of failed planning efforts into actionable structural recommendations.

Bernalillo County Ordinance 2024-15 establishes the Behavioral Health Authority (BHA) as a formal county government division with mandated governance structures, funding allocations, and accountability mechanisms to build an evidence-based, trauma-responsive behavioral health system.

This outcome evaluation of four Bernalillo County Behavioral Health Initiative-funded ACEs programs (All Faiths, Centro Sávila, New Day, and PB&J) matters because it provides evidence of what trauma-informed interventions are producing measurable improvements in children, youth, and families affected by adverse childhood experiences in the county.