Topic Area: Mental Health

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 strategy document from the Bernalillo County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council outlines a coordinated approach to enhancing behavioral health services for justice-involved individuals through diversion, reentry support, and community connections.

This is the 2022-2026 Strategic Plan for the Bernalillo County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC), which outlines multi-agency goals and objectives to improve criminal case processing, enhance services for justice-involved individuals, and strengthen behavioral health and diversion programs across the Second Judicial District.

This New Mexico Health Care Authority resource provides standardized evaluation guidelines and performance measures for behavioral health service providers, establishing a consistent framework for assessing program quality and effectiveness across the state's behavioral health system.

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 comprehensive clinical supervision implementation guide for New Mexico behavioral health professionals that provides practical frameworks, regulatory guidance, and best practices essential for developing a competent workforce capable of delivering quality behavioral health services.

This comprehensive toolkit provides a research-backed strategic framework, self-assessment tools, planning guides, and financing strategies for jurisdictions seeking to expand the System of Care approach to children's mental health — making it one of the most actionable national resources available for behavioral health systems change 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 Legislative Finance Committee policy spotlight analyzes crime trends, criminal justice system performance, and diversion program effectiveness in Bernalillo County, providing data-driven recommendations for reducing crime through treatment, accountability improvements, and reentry services.

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.