States

This model standards guidance document, SAMHSA's National Model Standards for Peer Support Certification, is prepared in response to President Biden's 2022 Unity Agenda. This document outlines model standards for substance use disorder, mental health, and family/youth peer support certification.

This actionable roadmap shares a Collective Impact approach to elevate solutions that require a cross-sector effort to address long-standing challenges and complex multisystem solutions for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce.

This Quick Take outlines the legal and policy efforts that have led to an increase in availability and stresses the importance of continued advocacy efforts to further expand MOUD availability in jails and prisons and in the community.

This publication offers strategies for government agencies to build recovery-rich communities, using lived experience as the frame.

This NIDA web page includes information and resources on substance use at the global level.

This NIDA web page includes facts and figures on addressing substance use disorders in the prison population.

This NIDA web page includes resources to help decrease substance use, address barriers to care, and improve outcomes among people in jail and prison systems.

This page highlights evidence-based services and models that address the complexities of mental illness and addiction, including examples from various states organized by four key frameworks.

Examples on this page illustrate how several different states have taken a comprehensive approach through overall system transformation and/or strategic disruptive investments.

This page and graphic provides a high-level framework for a modernized behavioral health system. The conceptual frame synthesizes key components of a behavioral health continuum of care and cross-cutting principles from expert input and best practice approaches.