Expanding Access to Community-Based Mental Health Support: A Review of Select Programs
The goal of this brief is to educate stakeholders on the value of low-intensity community-based mental health interventions as a potential strategy to help alleviate access challenges in the traditional mental health system and to expand and diversify the mental health workforce. This brief focuses on a review of five community-based mental health interventions delivered by trained, non-clinical providers that have been implemented across the United States. These types of interventions may serve as potential tools or approaches to increase access to mental health support, help reduce mental health morbidity and severity, and offer another approach for augmenting the traditional mental health system.