Topic Area: Child & Youth Welfare

This is a New Mexico behavioral health service certification reference guide that catalogs the full spectrum of state-certified behavioral health services, their oversight requirements, and application processes—essential for understanding the regulatory landscape and available service types for systems planning in Bernalillo County.

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 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.

This is a comprehensive community health profile for Bernalillo County that provides foundational demographic, social determinant, and health outcome data essential for behavioral health systems planning and targeting interventions to address disparities.

This brief summarizes a civic academy convening that explored how New Mexico can implement Senate Bill 3's $291 million behavioral health investment through community-driven planning, workforce development, cultural humility, and youth leadership.

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 presentation from the Council of State Governments Justice Center provides comprehensive findings and recommendations for transforming New Mexico's youth-serving systems through cross-agency coordination, evidence-based interventions, and a public health approach to youth violence prevention.

This report documents a community-driven dialogue process on mental health in the Greater Albuquerque region that generated 22 actionable recommendations for improving behavioral health systems, reducing stigma, and enhancing coordination among providers, first responders, and community services.

This comprehensive Community Health Assessment for Central New Mexico identifies behavioral health, social health, and physical health as priority areas for 2023-2025, providing critical data and community input to guide Presbyterian Healthcare Services' systems change initiatives in Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance, and Valencia counties.