States

This technical assistance brief will review many aspects of crisis system collaboration, incorporating stakeholder input gathered during this exciting transition from a default emergency medical and law enforcement response to a more intentional, varied continuum of behavioral health crisis responses.

This paper focuses on the potential that technological innovations have in making behavioral health crisis services more accessible and equitable across the United States and includes case studies from states and providers who were early adopters of leveraging technology to facilitate crisis care.

This paper discusses employee- and organization-level strategies to combat barriers to employee recruitment, retention, and wellness among the crisis response and general behavioral health workforce.

This tool highlights examples of successful People With Lived and Living Experience (PWLLE) engagement in data collection, interpretation and dissemination, gathered through key informant interviews — including overdose fatality review committees, drug checking, patient surveys and overdose reversal reporting — as well as novel approaches to community-based participatory research.

This tool identifies key elements for health departments to consider when hiring People With Lived and Living Experience (PWLLE), from identification and description of job roles and responsibilities to recruitment and interviewing.

This resource presents information gleaned from an environmental scan and a series of key infomant interviews to identify ways in which health departments can meaningfully involve people with lived and/or living experience (PWLLE) in overdose surveillance and prevention.

The findings from this Issue Brief reveal notable gaps in integrated SUD and mental health services, inpatient and residential care capacity, and use of medications for SUD treatment, with substantial variation across states and territories.

The article reviews the role that telehealth can play in providing medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatment.

This webpage provides a list of tools and resources dedicated to overdose prevention.

The report provides key findings from the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on SUD, mental health, and treatmnet.