Many State, Regional, And County Behavioral Health Directors Feel Unprepared For 988 Rollout, RAND Report Reveals

Psychiatric News (6/2) reports, “Beginning July 16, people in the United States experiencing a mental health crisis have to remember only three numbers – 988 – to connect with trained staff who are part of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline network,” but “many state, regional, and county behavioral health program directors are feeling unprepared for this transition,” according to a RAND Corporation report (PDF) “based on an online survey of 180 state, regional, and county behavioral health program directors who, according to the authors, ‘represented jurisdictional coverage of more than one-third of the U.S. population and 23 states.’”

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— “Many Behavioral Health Program Directors Feel Unprepared for 988 Rollout, RAND Report Suggests, Psychiatric News, June 2, 2022

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