Behavioral Health: Community Partnerships

The AHA supports and hopes to inspire initiatives by hospitals and health systems and community partners to expand access to a continuum of behavioral health services in a region. The resources on this page showcase successful initiatives and key components to creating collaborative behavioral health community partnerships. Expanding access to behavioral health services at the right time, place and level of care.

Additionally, the AHA Hospital Community Collaborative (HCC) provides proven ideas, insights and resources for creating effective, sustainable collaborations between hospitals and community organizations across sectors to accelerate health equity. Check out Bridging the Sectors: Integrating Health and Social Care, which offers a compendium of resources in the form of a toolkit from leading organizations to support cross-sector partnerships.