Geographic Scope: City/County Joint

This is a comprehensive community resource guide for the Albuquerque area that serves as an essential navigation tool for behavioral health systems change by documenting the current landscape of available services across mental health, substance use, crisis care, and social support sectors.

This report is a comprehensive system analysis of Bernalillo County's criminal justice and behavioral health intersections, offering 25 prioritized recommendations to reduce incarceration and improve outcomes for people with mental illness and substance use disorders through better diversion, reentry services, and cross-system coordination.

This reference chart maps all BHI-funded service areas and program names across four focus areas, making it essential for systems planners, providers, and advocates who need a quick overview of what the BHI funds and where services are organized.

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 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 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 comprehensive gap analysis of the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County behavioral health system identifies critical coordination failures between jurisdictions and provides actionable recommendations for creating a unified, trauma-informed continuum of care that connects fragmented services to better serve residents experiencing mental health, substance use, and homelessness crises.

This is a joint policy guidance document from the City of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, and Albuquerque Public Schools that establishes a coordinated framework for allocating approximately $150 million in opioid settlement funds over 15 years, providing a significant new funding stream for behavioral health systems change in the region.