Virginia Reports Three-Year Outcomes Of Behavioral Health Transformation To Expand Access, Strengthen Support For Individuals & Families

Over the past three years, Virginia’s behavioral health transformation has moved from a system unable to meet the needs of people in crisis to one that delivers faster access and stronger support for individuals and families. The behavioral health transformation initiative, dubbed Right Help, Right Now, started in December 2022 with Virginia’s legislature providing $1.4 billion in investments and enacting more than 60 bipartisan laws. The state’s administration also implemented 130 coordinated initiatives.

Right Help, Right Now included six pillars of initiatives to support behavioral health change throughout the Commonwealth. For example, over the past three . . .