Community Behavioral Health Organizations

Community Behavioral Health Organizations (CBHOs) take a broad range of forms, but ultimately their purpose is the same: to help community members improve and manage their mental health and substance use needs by offering low-barrier access to care.

CBHOs build relationships between community members and community health care providers, and between more high-intensity care providers (such as hospitals) and these same community health care providers. CBHOs generally offer a combination of mental health, substance use disorder and physical treatment services, and may also offer social services such as housing or insurance support. CBHOs may include community health centers, substance use treatment facilities, tribal health centers and more.

CBHOs may be secondary prevention organizations themselves or they may partner with such organizations to create wraparound services for people in the community.

Achieving Buy-in:

Pitching Harm Reduction Services in Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment and Care Organizations (July 2024)

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Getting Candid Resource Kit

If you’re a youth-serving  provider, check out the Getting Candid Resource Kit for helpful resources.

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