Topic Area: Justice & Courts

This Enhanced Sequential Intercept Mapping (E-SIM) report for Bernalillo County's youth system provides a comprehensive assessment of behavioral health resources, gaps, and community-prioritized recommendations for preventing youth justice system involvement through improved prevention, crisis response, and systems integration.

This document outlines the UNM Health Technical Assistance Center's menu of training and consultation services designed to support implementation of New Mexico's Behavioral Health Reform and Investment Act (Senate Bill 3), providing critical workforce development and systems planning resources for behavioral health transformation.

This legislative session summary outlines seven behavioral health bills passed in New Mexico's 2025 session, including the landmark SB3 Behavioral Health Reform and Investment Act which establishes a regional approach to behavioral health planning and investment that directly impacts systems change efforts in Bernalillo County.

This report provides comprehensive performance data and program evaluation for New Mexico's 56 Treatment Courts in FY2022, demonstrating that treatment courts reduce recidivism at significantly lower costs than incarceration while offering a scalable model for addressing substance use and mental health needs within the justice system.

This LFC Policy Spotlight examines New Mexico's juvenile justice system reforms emphasizing diversion over incarceration, finding that while youth are successfully diverted from secure confinement, the state lacks adequate evidence-based behavioral health and treatment services, leading to high rereferral rates back into the system.

This rapid landscape analysis examines overdose risks and prevention opportunities in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County to inform strategic planning for opioid settlement fund investments in behavioral health systems change.

This report analyzes patterns of reincarceration at Bernalillo County's MDC over a five-year period, providing data essential for understanding how unmet behavioral health needs — including substance use disorders and mental illness — drive cycling through the local jail system.

This is New Mexico's official funding application framework for the Behavioral Health Reform and Investment Act (Senate Bill 3), establishing regional behavioral health planning requirements that will guide $3+ billion in behavioral health investment across 13 regions over four years.

This is the official funding announcement and application for SB3 Behavioral Health Regional Infrastructure Act (BHRIA) planning grants, providing $45,000 per region to develop regional behavioral health service delivery plans across New Mexico's designated behavioral health regions.

This diagram maps the NM E-SIM framework showing how youth and adults intersect with behavioral health, justice, and community systems across six intercept points, providing a visual infrastructure tool for understanding where intervention and diversion can occur within New Mexico's behavioral health and justice continuum.