Topic Area: Housing & Homelessness

This 2022 New Mexico Department of Health report provides comprehensive statewide data on youth and adult mental health prevalence, suicide rates, risk factors, and protective factors, offering critical epidemiological evidence to inform behavioral health systems planning and resource allocation.

This Strategic Plan provides a comprehensive framework for Bernalillo County and the City of Albuquerque to spend approximately $52 million in opioid settlement funds over 18 years, offering 28 evidence-based recommendations developed through extensive community engagement to reduce overdose deaths and improve behavioral health outcomes.

This addendum updates the 2021 Albuquerque/Bernalillo County behavioral health gap analysis with revised estimates of service needs and costs across housing, crisis services, prevention, and community-based treatment, providing essential data for resource allocation and systems planning.

This is a final report from the 2022 New Mexico First Statewide Town Hall on Behavioral Health, presenting eight consensus recommendations developed by approximately 200 stakeholders to transform behavioral health services across New Mexico through workforce development, system integration, and sustainable funding.

This white paper proposes a coordinated statewide strategy using Medicaid waivers, SB3 regional planning, workforce development, and community safety infrastructure to reduce crisis cycling and improve public safety outcomes for people with serious behavioral health conditions in New Mexico.