Topic Area: Housing & Homelessness

This is a New Mexico Behavioral Health Services Division Provider Toolkit that guides agencies and practitioners through the process of becoming enrolled Medicaid behavioral health providers, which matters for systems change because it addresses workforce expansion and service capacity barriers.

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 evaluation of Bernalillo County's Community Engagement Teams (CET) program provides foundational documentation of peer-based crisis intervention services for adults experiencing behavioral health crises, revealing significant data collection gaps that must be addressed to measure program effectiveness and guide systems improvement.

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 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.

This Community Health Implementation Plan outlines Presbyterian Healthcare Services' strategic approach to addressing behavioral health, social health, and physical health priorities in Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance, and Valencia Counties from 2023-2025, providing a framework for healthcare-community collaboration that directly aligns with behavioral health systems change efforts.