Behavioral Health News

NYC Health + Hospitals' Peer Academy graduated 50 additional individuals with lived mental health or substance use experience who are now trained to become certified peer counselors.

Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital and Acadia Healthcare have partnered to build a behavioral health hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa, investing more than $55 million to alleviate unmet behavioral health needs in the region.

Cherokee Nation has developed a behavioral health scholarship to support students living inside and outside the reservation as they enter the behavioral health field, the the Tahlequah Daily Press reported July 22.

At least nine facilities providing therapy for children with autism in Colorado have closed in the past year and a half, The Colorado Sun reported July 24.

CMS approved California and Kentucky proposals to establish community-based mobile crisis intervention teams, according to a June 20 news release shared with Becker's.

Odessa-based University of Texas Permian Basin has received $10 million in grants from the Permian Strategic Partnership and the Scharbauer Foundation to support the mental and behavioral health workforce.

Kentucky State Senator John Schickel joined multiple sheriffs and police chiefs in speaking at a press conference demanding the reopening of the state's only all-girl detention facility, NPR affiliate WVXU News reported July 18.

Tropical Texas Behavioral Health, in partnership with the Edinburg (Texas) Police Department, has received $3 million to launch a mental health crisis response unit, myRGV reported July 18.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has approved designating $44.3 million in California's Behavioral Health Bridge Housing Program funds to develop housing for homeless residents who have serious behavioral health conditions, County News Center reported July 18.

United Health Services has expanded Oracle Health's electronic health record system across its network of behavioral health facilities.