Continuing CIBHS’ June theme of connection, resilience, and belonging, we are proud to highlight Men’s Mental Health Awareness. While millions of men experience anxiety, depression, stress, and other mental health challenges each year, many remain reluctant to seek help.
Category Archives: Health Equity
Creating Connections: How Community Cultural Liaisons Foster Wellness and Belonging
Community Cultural Liaisons (CCLs) serve as trusted bridges between behavioral health systems and the communities they serve. This article explores how CCLs foster wellness, belonging, and access to care by building trust, reducing barriers, amplifying community voices, and helping transform behavioral health systems into more responsive, culturally meaningful resources.
Ending Systemic Inequities through the Behavioral Health Racial Equity Collaborative (BHREC) Model
Across Sacramento County, behavioral health providers are navigating a new reality—supporting communities experiencing fear, trauma, and barriers to care shaped by immigration policy, misinformation, and systemic inequities.
Cultural Care in Behavioral Health Systems
Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) are essential to behavioral health care, yet research guiding these models has often underrepresented BIPOC communities. Community Defined Evidence Practices (CDEPs) help bridge this gap by integrating cultural wisdom, lived experience, and community-driven approaches—ensuring care is more trusted, relevant, and effective for the diverse populations served across California.
Beyond the Manual
Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) are the foundation of the behavioral healthcare system in the US today. There is a robust bank of research and data on these practices and they are rigorously evaluated and proven to work. Yet, for these powerful tools to truly serve all, especially historically underserved communities, such as those in rural areas, lower-income households, people of color and LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, and others) communities, a crucial step is often overlooked: cultural adaptation.
Leading Change Through Implementation Science
CIBHS is the Third-Party Administrator for the CYBHI Scaling Evidence-Based and Community-Defined Practices grant program, we use implementation science within Learning Collaboratives to support nearly 400 grantees. By integrating equity and organizational readiness, the initiative helps expand effective EBP and CDEP adoption to improve behavioral health access and outcomes for children, youth (0–25), and families across California.
Breaking Barriers Together: The Behavioral Health Racial Equity Collaborative in Sacramento County
The Sacramento County Behavioral Health Services (BHS) and the California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions (CIBHS) are steadfast in our commitment to breaking down barriers and fostering equitable access to behavioral health services and care for all.