by ACMHAIcoordinator | Aug 14, 2026
NACo Local government sits at the operational center of emergency and crisis response systems. Counties in 48 states and the District of Columbia operate, fund and manage thousands of the nation’s public safety answering points (PSAPs), or 911 call centers....
by ACMHAIcoordinator | Aug 14, 2026
National Council for Mental Wellbeing CCBHCs are clinics — either recipients of a federal CCBHC grant or certified by their states as CCBHCs within Medicaid — that receive flexible funding to support their costs of expanding the scope of mental health and substance...
by ACMHAIcoordinator | Aug 14, 2026
Illinois Health News The state’s Medicaid agency has started to send notices to certain noncitizens to inform them they will lose Medicaid coverage this fall under federal changes to the program. Carrie Chapman, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services’...
by ACMHAIcoordinator | Jul 24, 2026
CMS Suspends Medicaid Funding On July 21, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it was deferring more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments, roughly $867.5 million to California and $199 million to Minnesota, pending state documentation...
by ACMHAIcoordinator | Jul 22, 2026
Since 2017, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) have been expanding access to mental health and substance use care for some of our most vulnerable communities. But too often, gaps between state agencies and Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs)...
