Topic Area: Systems & Planning

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 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 document is New Mexico's official Behavioral Health Service Standards manual that establishes the regulatory framework, service definitions, and operational requirements governing all Medicaid-reimbursed behavioral health services across the state, providing essential guidance for providers and systems planners implementing behavioral health programs.

This internal audit of Bernalillo County's Behavioral Health Services departments identifies critical gaps in strategic planning, policies, procedures, and contract administration that must be addressed to ensure effective deployment of behavioral health gross receipts tax revenues and coordinated systems change.

This is a New Mexico behavioral health service certification reference guide that catalogs the full spectrum of state-certified behavioral health services, their oversight requirements, and application processes—essential for understanding the regulatory landscape and available service types for systems planning in Bernalillo County.

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.