Behavioral Health

The pandemic highlighted significant challenges facing Rhode Island's health system, including a need for more robust behavioral health supports to improve access to care. These projects promote mental health and well-being.

The funds are providing infrastructure development grants to community-based behavioral health and social services providers to comply with federal Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) standards.

Butler Hospital built a 25-bed short stay unit to care for patients with mental health needs, which is intended to alleviate overcrowding at emergency departments. 

Thundermist Health Center is expanding this program that trains law enforcement, mental health providers, and hospitals to better respond to communities' behavioral health needs.

The State is funding the construction of a new, 12-bed facility on the campus of the psychiatric residential treatment facility.

The funds are paying for operating expenses for 9-8-8 - the easy-to-remember dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

The funds were used for the architectural plans for a new residential facility to care teenage girls. The new facility will provide 16 residential beds, classrooms, treatment rooms, recreation areas, and support spaces for youth, staff, and families.