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.
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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.
Better Care, Lower Costs: Scaling Evidence-Based Practices Across Health Plans
Evidence-based practices improve outcomes, reduce costs, and strengthen system performance. This article explores why inconsistent adoption across health plans persists and what it takes to scale EBPs effectively across behavioral health systems.
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.