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title: Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs)
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category: Access to Mental Health Services
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# Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs)

This report provides an overview of CCBHCs, which were developed to improve community behavioral health services by supporting certain outpatient mental health clinics that meet specified federally designated criteria.

 

[Read More](https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12494)

 

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