Solving It Together: Building an Earlier, More Coordinated Community Response to Behavioral Health Needs

Untreated mental health conditions and substance misuse drive chronic disease and worsen disparities in health outcomes. Supporting the community’s behavioral health needs by caring for people with poor mental health or substance use disorders is central to the population health work you're already doing. Yet behavioral health remains siloed, downstream and dependent on clinical capacity. 

What if behavioral health care responses were, instead, coordinated and strategic? This session shows what a practical roadmap looks like, from upstream prevention to community-wide engagement, stronger cross-sector coordination and a defensible accountability story.