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Explore insights and best practices from crisis response thought leaders and experts
Featured Reports
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View ReportCommunity Impact Report
How a better crisis response model is easing pressure on systems and helping thousands get back to their lives.
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View ReportBehavioral Health True Costs Report
The true cost of defaulting to ERs and incarceration for behavioral health crises, and why it doesn't work.
Featured Resources
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Why communities need to rethink behavioral health investment
Communities across the nation face a critical challenge: building behavioral health systems that deliver the right care, at the right time, in the right setting, and at a sustainable cost.September 2026 -
The federal policy door for behavioral health is open, and counties are ready to walk through it
County officials don't usually get to say the federal policy stars are aligning, but at the recent National Association for Counties (NACo) ...March 2026 -
Prince William County is changing what mental health crisis response looks like
Insights and early outcomes shared during a recent panel at the National Association of Counties (NACo) highlight how Prince William ...March 2026 -
Rethinking post-naloxone care: turning a life-saving moment into a path forward
Naloxone reverses opioid overdoses, but the care someone receives after that moment matters just as much. In King County, Connections ...January 2026
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Policy
Federal Policy Update: Key 2025 SAMHSA / CMS Guidance & National Technical Assistance Center
Section 5124 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (CAA, 2023; P.L. 117-328) directed CMS and SAMHSA to develop guidance to promote access to the ... September 2025.jpg)
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