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title: The Role of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics in Crisis Services and Systems
description: There is a powerful movement underway to make sure that everyone can get the help they need when they’re experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis. This vision of a nationwide behavioral health crisis system is critical to improving…
url: "https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/hub/crisis-response-and-suicide-prevention/the-role-of-certified-community-behavioral-health-clinics-in-crisis-services-and-systems/"
updated: "2026-07-31"
category: Crisis Response and Suicide Prevention
tags:
  - Audience
  - Mental health professionals
  - Report
  - TA sites
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# The Role of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics in Crisis Services and Systems

There is a powerful movement underway to make sure that everyone can get the help they need when they’re experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis. This vision of a nationwide behavioral health crisis system is critical to improving the well-being of our nation and ensuring everyone can thrive.

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) are a powerful resource for making this vision a reality. CCBHCs play a crucial role in the crisis system, assessing community needs, providing direct services, contributing to planning activities and actively partnering in local crisis system collaboration and coordination.

To help communities build a robust crisis system, the [National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Medical Director Institute](https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/about-us/leadership-experts/medical-director-institute/) released a white paper on maximizing the effectiveness of CCBHCs in crisis services and systems. It provides guidance to:

- Help CCBHC grantees, their service partners, and state and local policymakers understand and meet the basic CCBHC requirements for crisis services.
- Help current and emerging CCBHC leadership and staff — and their state and local policymakers — understand how to use prospective payment methodologies and CCBHC standards to maximize the effectiveness of crisis systems.
- Help implementation planners, system managers and policymakers use CCBHCs to meet their communities’ needs for customized crisis systems.

 

[Read More](https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/resources/role-of-ccbhcs-in-health-crisis-services/?mkt_tok=NzczLU1KRi0zNzkAAAGV4ufzK7Mb5iN5lt7rn8mOc2OKxpl3TB9T5LgDo-fLokOuDhUJGajsqM_7QHE5msWdT34MAJOlbTbS_CmeoZ-GyP5aXsVhSOuVK4yVITdexGFhlQ)

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