North Carolina White Paper On Mental Health & Substance Abuse Crisis Solutions Initiative

On November 7, 2013, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) launched a behavioral health crisis solutions initiative to reduce emergency department utilization and wait times for inpatient psychiatric and addiction treatment placement. In this white paper, DHHS reported the data points indicating need for a new approach handling behavioral health crisis and the strategies the initiative will use to identify and address problems . . .