Topic Area: Justice & Courts

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 2015 resolution formally commits Bernalillo County to the national Stepping Up Initiative, establishing a framework to reduce the number of people with mental illness in the Metropolitan Detention Center through multi-agency collaboration and data-driven interventions.

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 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 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.