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Structural problems underlie behavioral health services delays
A new report highlights the delays for New Yorkers in need of community-based services for behavioral health disorders. Our guest is Jihoon Kim.
Behavioral Health: HHS and DOJ Offer Grants to Help Human Trafficking Survivors
Given the trauma that survivors of human trafficking have experienced, they may need behavioral health services, such as therapy or substance use...
Oklahoma County leaders discussing Behavioral Health Care Center funding
Work continues on a behavioral health care center that is meant to help keep Oklahomans out of jail, and county leaders are considering moving some funds around to cover a project related to the facility.
Biobehavioral health researcher earns Lloyd Prize for Innovative Health Research
Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute has announced Mohanraj Krishnan as the recipient of the 2026 Lloyd Prize for Innovative Health Research made possible by an endowment created by Penn State Professor Emeritus Thomas Lloyd, who served on the College of Medicine faculty for 46 years.
Dover Police Behavioral Health Unit Selected to Present at National Co-Responder Conference
The Dover Police Department is proud to announce that members of its Behavioral Health Unit (BHU), Corporal Jake Shepherd and Clinical Field Partner Watara Heath, were selected to present at the 20…
County Supervisors Approve Three‑Year Integrated Plan, Funding Behavioral Health Care, Housing and Crisis Services
County Supervisors today approved the region’s first Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA) Integrated Plan, a three-year roadmap for how the County will use funding to support mental health care, substance use treatment and housing for people with serious behavioral health needs.
Oregon, all 36 counties reach updated behavioral health agreement to boost care
Mental health care services across Oregon are getting a boost under a new agreement between the state and all 36 counties aimed at improving accountability and
Southern Arkansas University launches new Bachelor of Science in Emergency Management for Fall 2026 | News
Southern Arkansas University has announced the launch of a new Bachelor of Science in Emergency Management, with enrollment beginning in Fall 2026. The program, housed in the Department of Behavioral…
Spectrum News: Wright State University and Premier Health receive $2.5M grant to expand street medicine
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Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center Announces Expansion of Services
Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center has announced plans to expand its services as the designated community mental health center (CMHC) for behavioral health services in Warren and Lawrence townships.
Safer rides, faster care: Mental health, medical providers back patient transport bills
We can create the future of science right now
Paul Litvak is the founder and Executive Director of the Robyn Dawes Institute and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. He has a PhD in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon where he studied emotions and the sunk cost bias. Over 15 years in industry, he solved a wide range of challenging technical problems. At Meta he created models optimizing the ad review process. At Google he ran experiments to measure social influence. At Airbnb, he was a product manager leading machine learning teams optimizing search ranking and price suggestions. He also co-founded and led product at Rhythmic Health, a venture-backed biosensing startup, creating an accurate low cost system using a color changing strip and a smart phone to measure salivary lactate. The bottleneck At this point, it is uncontroversial to say that science needs to stop using the PDF article as the unit of knowledge and currency. The unbearable slowness of scientific publishing, the profit motive and margins: I’m not saying anything new. The PDF also sucks because it’s hard to extract structured information, which makes it hard to do evidence synthesis. As a result, we do much less evidence synthesis than is needed. And evidence synthesis ultimately undergirds most policy and medical decision-making. I can see second-by-second real-time odds for any sporting or newsworthy event, but a school board can’t see the best evidence on whether their 8th graders should be taught algebra. As a society, we don’t treat this as an important problem. Again, not controversial. Not only is the problem well understood, but the solution has already been laid out. What we need is AI-assisted living evidence synthesis - (1) an open knowledge graph of atomic claims, (2) claims linked to evidence, (3) assessment and synthesis of each piece of evidence, and (4) continuous updating with new data. What few realize (yet) is that the technical capacity to build this vision for a significant portion of science already exists. Not only that, scientists and startup teams are already building many of these components. I know this because I’ve been surveying the space and talking to many of the builders. There are some missing pieces: for example, evaluations of how well some of the components work. But at this point, most of what’s missing is a fully end-to-end working integration of all of these parts. In the rest of this essay, I’m going to lay out all the parts of a working living evidence layer for science and who is working on them, and propose concrete next steps for building this system. What’s now possible The diagram above outlines the components of a living evidence synthesis platform, including some of the teams working on each component1. Scientific PDFs are processed into claims with associated evidence. The evidence is subjected to a forensic audit, methodological evaluation and robustness and reproducibility checks. Finally it’s given a weight in a continuously updating synthesis. What follows is a description and status of each component and a few of the teams working on them. Document understanding The first thing you need to be able to do is turn an article into structured data. Mostly that means parsing PDFs. There are often multicolumn layouts that confuse non-specialized PDF to text processing libraries. For scientific papers, there is the added complexity of parsing formulas and tables and figures. This is a really hot area - there are startups offering APIs, and it seems like a new open source package gets posted to Github every few weeks. What follows isn’t exhaustive. A package called GROBID was the state of the art for a while, they didn’t update their package for nearly two years until very recently. In the meantime reducto.ai released an AI powered PDF extraction API, PaddleOCR became popular, IBM released a model called Docling, and both Mistral and Gemini created models and libraries. I also know of at least one other well-funded psychology research group working on a paper parser. By contrast, there are few open evals in this space, with no extensive evals for complex table comprehension in particular. Nonetheless, I’m confident this will be a solved problem soon, given the combination of LLM advances and developer interest. Hypothesis level extraction There has been increasing interest in comprehending the extracted text of papers and linking information to evidence for each hypothesis. A lot of work has already been done. Trialstreamer (Marshall et al. 2020) and RobotReviewer LIVE (Marshall et al. 2023) demonstrated automated extraction of trial population, intervention, and outcome at scale on clinical RCTs. PaperQA2 (Skarlinski et al. 2024) and Ai2 ScholarQA (2024) extended this to retrieval-augmented question answering with citation grounding. Elicit, Consensus, and SciSpace operationalized claim-level extraction for end users. OpenEval (Booeshaghi et al. 2026) is the most recent and most ambitious: 1.96 million atomic claims extracted from 16,087 eLife manuscripts using Claude Sonnet 4.5, grouped into ~299,000 results, with LLM evaluations showing 81% agreement with human peer review on a 2,487-paper subset. None of these solutions link claims to test-statistics, as you would need to evaluate randomized controlled trials. This is why I built the evidence.guide API - to extract hypotheses and associated test statistics from behavioral science papers. The best public eval of this kind of extraction I’m aware of comes from the recent SCORE project - they had humans code thousands of psychology papers to extract their claims by hand. It would be extremely helpful to the world if all scientific PDFs were available as structured open data. I’ve been working to make this happen, both directly at Berkeley and through coordination with large entities I can’t yet speak of; as hard as it is to do, I think it’s possible2. Forensic audit A lot of work has been done on forensic audit, but some gaps remain. Of course, for biology papers that rely on images for evidence, there are a variety of tools (notably Proofig and ImageTwin) to spot anomalies. These are still well short of what sleuths like Elizabeth Bik can do on her own, but these tools are constant companions among fraud analysts. There’s someone working on auditing Excel files for anomalies, and a number of teams are automating numerical checks like GRIM and SPRITE, including Scrutiny project, the INSPECT-SR team as well as statcheck. The regcheck team is building a way to use AI to compare preregistrations to analyses in papers, to ensure there aren’t significant deviations. Nonetheless, there are many other kinds of anomalies to screen for, both public and less publicly known. And there are no formal evals for anomaly detection that I’m aware of. Still, there’s a lot to draw from in this space and I’m pretty certain we will be able to scan papers for most kinds of obvious anomalies in the near future. Methodological review This area has been white hot, though I fear for many of the startups in this space, because this capability may become commoditized. There are at least six different AI peer review companies, including Refine.ink, Reviewer3, ReviewerZero.ai, Q.E.D. Science, Paper Wizard, and Isitcredible. Coarse (a pun on refine) was also recently created as an open source alternative. These systems provide qualitative feedback on the content of papers, spotting methodological weaknesses and mathematical errors. They seem to work pretty well, and many academics report bitterly that they exceed the average quality of typical peer reviewers. But there are few evals here either. What evals exist so far involve using LLM-as-judge (circularity problems abound) or comparing against human reviews of questionable quality. What you’d ideally want is an eval that measures capturing known errors in papers3. Reproducibility and robustness Another active area has been using AI agents to automate computational reproducibility4 and robustness5 checks in papers that report numerical results. For more recent papers where data and code are available, AI agents can see whether they can re-run the analyses and produce the numbers reported in the published paper. In addition to a handful of individual academics who have been experimenting using Claude Code for this, the Institute for Replication is a leading group working on building an end to end system. The evals related to this problem are the most mature, with CORE-Bench (Siegel, Kapoor, Narayanan 2024) and PaperBench (OpenAI 2025) available to benchmark agents on this task. There is also work on getting AI agents to test alternative ways of analyzing the data to ensure the results are robust to small analytic design choices. Synthesis This is the most underdeveloped area where significant investment is required. Although some automated evidence synthesis systems exist — for example, otto-sr is building an AI agent to write systematic reviews — none of these incorporate the full range of paper level signals to weight evidence appropriately. Nor is there anything like an eval or a gold standard for a good systematic review. Arguably Cochrane reviews are the closest we have to gold standard human systematic reviews, though I’ve heard academics in the know complain about their uneven quality. A key question for a synthesis platform is how to weight anomalies and methodological issues in assessing the quality of a piece of evidence. This is an unsolved problem and one I’m very keen to work on. Continuous updating There are many pieces of basic infrastructure available for monitoring for new research and initiating updates. OpenAlex is the current open citation graph. Retraction Watch integrated into Crossref in October 2023. Scite tracks how citations support, contrast, or mention prior claims. The Living Evidence Network demonstrated continuous-update workflows in clinical guidelines. Engineering this is a relatively straightforward task. When you look over this technical architecture and all the progress being made, it’s hard not to be optimistic that a living guide to scientific evidence will be built. The stakeholders are ready The social infrastructure for this is starting to coalesce — it’s not just a pie in the sky academic exercise to imagine this coming into existence. Institutions like the Center for Open Science, the Institute for Replication, the INSPECT-SR, the Living Evidence Network and more are all working on scaling work to improve research quality. Funders are also aligned. The Sloan Foundation has funded living evidence work through COS. Coefficient Giving supports the Institute for Replication and COS. The Astera Institute and the Institute for Progress have shown interest in this space. NIH has established an Office for Replication and Reproducibility. Although there are (very unfortunately) serious headwinds in science funding generally, there is an active group of funders interested in metascience. A brief word about what I’ve been doing at RDI. First, as a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley I’ve been actively figuring out how a non-profit and a public university can conduct and make public the results of large-scale academic article data mining. With some of the money I raised from donors, I commissioned a legal analysis of recent case law and publisher text data mining (TDM) agreements in order to understand whether a massive open data mining of academic articles is possible (with caveats, it is). I’ve also been working to bring together stakeholders in this space, and identify gaps. I’ve also been doing some software development in this space, with more to come. A pilot proposal The assumption undergirding all of this is that an AI, given all this information, would make the right judgment about a scientific claim with lots of conflicting evidence, weighing all the factors appropriately. That’s the hypothesis we need to test. Randomized control trial research is the best place to focus on first. RCTs are used to make many of the important decisions in society - from medical trials to public policy changes. And they use a relatively uniform set of inferential statistics with lots of known and available diagnostics. Behavioral science experiments, within the broader realm of RCTs, should be first used as a testbed whose results can be generalized. Because behavioral science is at the vanguard of open science practices, replications abound (there are thousands of them) to serve as ground truth training data. Key Hypothesis Therefore the pilot would test, in behavioral RCTs that have been replicated, whether the quality of evidence for a claim can be used to accurately predict whether that claim will replicate. Secondary Hypotheses Compared to claims that replicated, non-replicated claims demonstrate a greater share of forensic anomalies in their source literatures. Hypothesis level claim and statistic extraction is accurate enough to scale living evidence without onerous human review costs. Replication prediction is more accurate than prediction markets6 or journal prestige. If all the different quality signals we gather do accurately predict which studies will replicate, then we can use that model to score evidence to power the living evidence layer. Why this is informative regardless of outcome If the pilot succeeds, the architecture extends to medical RCTs (where Living Evidence already operates and integration is mostly about claim representation), then to slices of basic biology with stable replication structure. If it fails, the field learns which quality signals are load-bearing and which ones metascience has oversold. Either result is a contribution to knowing what the literature supports. Implications for funders Because this burgeoning ecosystem of builders already exists, a well-informed philanthropic or government funder could play a crucial catalyzing role in bringing this future about. They could play at least three roles: creating open structured datasets, publishing open benchmarks and incentivizing the solving of key technical challenges. First, open archives of papers that the government maintains, like PubMed, could be turned into structured data amenable to large scale metascience and claim aggregation. I know the US government already has an interest in doing this, though some key open questions remain unanswered. How do you determine the best models and systems for accurately extracting information from papers? How can you establish a robust way to allow researchers to flag errors and correct them? And finally, how do you create a legal regime in working with publishers to maximize the scope of available papers? For the latter, a university or a private philanthropy may be better positioned to make structured data publicly available under journal subscription terms or fair use. Philanthropists or government funders could also coordinate to create or commission benchmarks that evaluate whether important problems have been solved. For example, an open benchmark for claim extraction from a range of different scientific article types would be extremely helpful. Ensuring the underlying data are accurate is vital for creating these evaluations. I’ve discussed opportunistically using various human-created datasets for this purpose, but a consistent problem is that errors in human data make it difficult for them to serve as a gold standard. Finally, with structured data and benchmarks available, the government or private philanthropy could use them to incentivize groups to develop machine learning systems that meet these benchmarks. Prizes are one potentially valuable tool for this. For example, you could establish a prize for a system that accurately updates a living meta-analysis for a small set of claims. Prizes are particularly useful as signals of problem importance, and can help create vibrant ecosystems of public and private research—see, for example the role the government played in kickstarting the current work on nuclear fusion. Conclusion The drawbacks of the current scientific publishing system are known. Scientists agree, metascientists agree, philanthropists agree: the published PDF plus citation graph isn’t the right substrate for maintaining a representation of the evidence base in science. The pieces needed to build the alternative either already exist or are rapidly taking shape. The community is forming around exactly this problem, with concrete partnerships and shared infrastructure. A pilot should start on behavioral science RCTs because that’s the slice of empirical science most amenable to legibility, where replication ground truth is richest, and where the failure modes are best documented. What’s been missing is the galvanizing mission to assemble these pieces into something that works. That’s what I’m proposing to build. *** 1 I have a broader field map that I’ll release publicly soon. This is me, building in public! 2 If this is something that you are excited about, please reach out and talk to me. 3 More on this very soon too! 4 This tests whether, given the code and the data, you can get the same statistics as reported in the published paper. 5 This tests whether the results are the same as a paper’s given alternative analytical decisions in conducting the analysis (like outlier omission). Closely related is the idea of a “multiverse” where you come up with many different ways of answering the same underlying research question with the same data, and test whether the results hold in all those alternative methods. There’s been work on the latter as well. 6 Some of the replications, e.g. those from the SCORE project, had paired the experiments with forecasts from prediction markets. So we get to look at this for free.
Klinic Raises $24M for Behavioral Health, Speciality Provider Enablement Platform
Frisco, Texas-based Klinic Inc. has raised $24 million. The company offers a digital enablement platform, akin to Shopify for independent healthcare
Aging Matters: Colorado scientist’s discovery of a gene for longevity was a ‘game-changer’
Tom Johnson passed away this year at the age of 77. He was known as “the father of genetic gerontology.”
Readers respond: Behavioral health system fails Oregon’s people
Letters to the Editor can be submitted to letters@oregonian.com with full name and place of residence.
Stamford Health plans new cancer center, behavioral health facility
Construction is set to start in 2027, with estimated costs around $275 million.
Stupid hot: Heat waves cause cognitive changes in animals, making them more aggressive and unable to complete basic tasks
As temperatures rise, some creatures pick fights while others struggle to learn. The consequences of these behavioral changes may ripple through ecosystems.
Feds charge Ohio fraudsters with stealing $30M meant for behavioral health program to buy luxury cars
MDHHS Finalizes Specialty Behavioral Health Services Location Policy
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) recently finalized Medicaid Policy Bulletin MMP 26-17, effective July 1, 2026, which clarifies reimbursement requirements for specialty behavioral health services provided through Prepaid Inpatient Health Plans in home, community and residential settings.
Luxury cars seized after alleged $30 million fraud ring involving children's health services busted, officials say
Federal authorities have busted what they say is a $30 million fraud conspiracy involving billing for children's behavioral health services that were never provided, officials announced.
Medicaid termination letters leave South Florida behavioral health patients and therapists in limbo
3 Investment Trends Shaping Behavioral Health Deals in 2026
This is an exclusive BHB+ article. Despite some major deals in the behavioral health sector in 2026, the year’s dealmaking outlook is still somewhat muted
Wellin5 Moves Toward Its Next Phase of Behavioral Health Acquisitions
Wellin5 is arguing for the harder version. The company is a hybrid behavioral health platform that has operated in the category for more than a decade and has served tens of thousands of patients through virtual therapy services.
Community Hospice and Health Services Invests in Behavioral Health
California-based Community Hospice and Health Services is extending its mission to improve quality of life into the behavioral health space. In addition
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler Enhances Behavioral Health Services for Long-Term Care Residents - NYC Health + Hospitals
New York, NY — Today, the NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler skilled nursing facility announced two initiatives to serve residents with a behavioral health
Forward Training & Consulting Receives 2026 Global Recognition Award for Behavioral-Science Leadership Development in the UAE and GCC
Forward Training & Consulting FZE has received a 2026 Global Recognition Award for delivering science-based leadership development across th...
Sheriff, mental health experts sound alarm over loss of funding for mobile crisis teams in state budget
Mental health care experts gather to express concerns for behavioral health funding in Newsom's proposed budget.
The Social Sciences Are in Trouble
The National Science Foundation division the covers social, behavioral, and economic sciences is in the Trump administration’s crosshairs.
Los Alamos High School Freshman Linus Plohr Earns 3rd Place Award At 2026 Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair
Los Alamos High School freshman Linus Plohr placed 3rd in the Behavioral and Social Science category at the 2026 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. Courtesy photo Brothers Tate a…
Governor Gianforte Announces Montana Secures Federal Funding to Establish Behavioral Health Clinics
HELENA, Mont. – Governor Greg Gianforte and Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) Director Charlie Brereton today announced the Trump administration selected Montana as one of ten states to receive federal funding to expand access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment across the state.
Advocates talk youth mental health in south Snohomish County
Presenters discussed programs that are working, gaps in the system and focus areas to support youth who have behavioral health challenges.
The science of who gets paid
Discover how Black neighborhoods are losing ground as businesses price out residents. Learn about behavioral science solutions for economic justice.
University of Montevallo Art Class Collaborating with Baptist Health
An art class at the University of Montevallo will be utilizing the creative talent of students in the College of Education and Human Development and College of Fine Arts to provide a welcoming space for patients and staff in the Adult and Senior Behavioral Health units at Baptist Health in Alabaster. The class is led… Continue reading University of Montevallo Art Class Collaborating with Baptist Health
419 FW and 151 ANG Advocates tackle mental health: briefs Utah clinicians
As mental health professionals from across Utah gathered for the University of Utah College of Social Work’s Continuing Education Unit Institute on May 13, behavioral health leaders from the military community took the virtual stage to shed light on a critical but often misunderstood population: Reservists and Guardsmen.
Oklahoma City teachers to assist students at new pediatric behavioral health center
Oklahoma Children's OU Health is building a pediatric behavioral health center in Oklahoma City, where OKCPS teachers will help students stay on track academically during recovery.
Governors’ Policy Actions on Behavioral Health Access
(Download) Behavioral health workforce shortages remain a significant barrier to accessing care in rural areas across the United States. According to the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) State of the Behavioral Health Workforce, (2025) substantial shortages are projected for many occupations in the behavioral health workforce over the next 15 years, including psychologists, psychiatrists, […]
New pilot program helps educators recognize behavioral health issues, offers resources to find help
A new program is educating educators to identify behavioral health issues in students as the mental health crisis among children continues to grow.
Childcare and mental health play well together at new Tukwila center
The new center will offer 60 free daycare slots to families who qualify, in addition to mental and behavioral health services for the community, available now.
Guilford County Behavioral Health Center approaching 5 year anniversary
Guilford County officials say the center served more than 20,000 individuals last year alone.
Guilford County Behavioral Health Center approaching 5 year anniversary
Guilford County officials say the center served more than 20,000 individuals last year alone.
New Iowa behavioral health hospital aims to address mental healthcare shortage
A state-of-the-art facility opening in Council Bluffs in June is expected to help boost services and inpatient psychiatric care beds in a more peaceful setting.
AHA wins 2 Telly Awards for behavioral health video series
The AHA has won two Telly Awards for its three-part video series, Voices of Leadership: Breaking Mental Health Stigma. The Telly Awards, a global competition founded in 1979, honor excellence in video and television across all platforms. The AHA is a Silver Telly Winner in the Online — Public Interest and Awareness Category, and a Bronze Telly Award Winner in the Social Video — Motivational and Advice Category.
Fresno County departments of behavioral and public health allowed at Pride Festival
With unanimous approval from Fresno County supervisors on Tuesday, the departments of behavioral and public health can spend money to participate in this year's Fresno Rainbow Pride Festival.
Springfield losing its detox beds as Behavioral Health Network moves toward transitional treatment
Springfield's Carlson Recovery Center is ending detox beds with 24/7 medical supervisor due to staffing, shifting to less-intensive residential addiction care.
Garden Grows into Therapeutic Space at Kettering Health Behavioral Medical Center
To boost the behavioral health experience of patients, a therapeutic garden was created at Kettering Health Behavioral Medical Center.
Woodbridge school counselor named 2026 Delaware Behavioral Health Professional of Year - State of Delaware News
Taylor Richey, a school counselor from the Woodbridge School District, is the state’s 2026 Delaware Behavioral Health Professional of the Year. Secretary of Education Cindy Marten made the announcement at a statewide banquet honoring the district and charter network behavioral health professionals of the year. The Woodbridge Early Childhood Education Center counselor said […]
Penn State Health unifies psychiatric and behavioral health services to expand access across central Pennsylvania
Penn State Health has consolidated all psychiatric and behavioral health services under a single identity, integrating former Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute inpatient and outpatient services to…
Why Teams Don’t Just Lose—They Change
Today’s guest column is from professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. With spring here, we thought we’d look at what sports leaders can learn from fishing—or more accurately, from a particular fish, a glass wall and what happens when the environment thwarts an organization’s best attempts to reach a goal To borrow from behavioral science, …
As Springfield weighs annexation request, regional behavioral health needs hang in the balance
Springfield councilors will ponder an annexation request that would set the stage for Oregon’s first behavioral health campus that has both a psychiatric hospital and stabilization center on site.
Kids’ mental health - time to close the gap: Marissa Kiefer
Mental and behavioral health challenges among young people are not rare -- they’re part of life for many families. But at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s, we’re dedicated to trying new approaches, writes guest columnist Marissa Kiefer, president of University Hospitals' Rainbow Babies & Children’s and MacDonald Women’s hospitals.
North Dakota launches initiative focused on suicide prevention support and training for rural healthcare providers | Health and Human Services North Dakota
North Dakota is launching a new rural healthcare suicide prevention initiative aimed at strengthening follow-up care and closing critical gaps after suicide risk is identified. The effort follows recommendations from the North Dakota Suicide Fatality Review Commission and supports the Zero Suicide framework across rural and tribal healthcare systems.The initiative will support rural and tribal healthcare providers in implementing standardized suicide risk screening, follow-up care after suicide attempts and improved referral pathways into mental health and behavioral healthcare services.
WA kids were stuck in hospitals for months. New report shows progress
Legislation intended to curb youth psychiatric boarding has cut wait times for those with serious behavioral and mental health concerns, a new report shows.
Proposed VHC Health facility needs more public input, County Board candidates say
The three Democratic candidates for County Board are all in favor of extensive community input on a proposal for a new behavioral health facility in Glencarlyn. "You need to listen -- it needs to be community-first," challenger Julie Farnam said at a debate hosted by the Arlington County Civic Federation on Tuesday. Farnam and James DeVita
Inaugural Mind-Body Science and Health lecture planned
The inaugural Distinguished Lectureship in Mind-Body Science and Health will be delivered by Wendy Berry Mendes, Yale University professor of psychology, on May 28 at the Mellon Institute. Mendes will discuss “Affect Contagion: Physiologic Synchrony among Strangers and Close Others,” from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Mellon Institute Auditorium. The lectureship is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Research Network, a joint project of Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University, and Pitt’s Center for Mind-Body Science and Health. RSVP as soon as possible to help plan for a reception following the lecture. This is a public event. Students, post-docs, and early-stage investigators are especially encouraged to attend.
Arizona AG says Medicaid behavioral health billing dropped 92% after fraud crackdown
Arizona AG Kris Mayes says billing through the American Indian Health Plan for behavioral health services has dropped over 90% the past few years after her office began targeting fraud in the program.
Mayor Bowser's budget proposes sweeping changes to mental health services in D.C. schools, raising concerns
Bowser wants to bring school behavioral health services under a city agency to reduce costs. But many fear the disruptions will hurt students and overwhelm teachers.
School behavioral health professionals to be honored - State of Delaware News
The state will name its 2026 Delaware Behavioral Health Professional of the Year at a statewide celebration on Monday, May 18th. Delaware’s districts and the Delaware Charter School Network named local Behavioral Health Professionals of the Year for 2026. Following an application and interview process, one will be named the state honoree.
St. Mary's new Master of Social Work to meet mental health professional shortage
Beginning in Fall 2027, St. Mary’s University will offer a Master of Social Work that will be unique among San Antonio institutions for offering fully asynchronous delivery, Military Social Work and Integrative Behavioral Health Care specializations and an explicitly Marianist values foundation.
Chair File: Hospitals Integrate Behavioral Health Care, Provide Hope and Healing
The AHA joins the health care field “to elevate a conversation” about behavioral health.
Lewiston mental health organization merges with Sweetser
A Lewiston-based mental health provider is merging with one of the states largest behavioral health organizations.
CHOP's crisis center brings hope for children's mental health
When kids come through the doors of CHOP's Behavioral Health and Crisis Center, you can be certain they are in good hands.
House Passes 2026 Farm Bill with Rural Health Provisions - MHA | Michigan Health & Hospital Association
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 7567, the Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2026, on April 30, which includes several provisions supporting rural healthcare infrastructure, broadband expansion and behavioral health services. The legislation includes six provisions championed by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA), several of which…
After nearly a year, CFYD resolves contract dispute with behavioral health providers
The dispute between CFYD and a state behavioral health board dragged on for nearly a year, threatening to disrupt care for kids.
Behavioral health center working to find beds for those affected by shelters’ closing
Shelter Inc., the primary provider for emergency shelter services, is shutting down May 30.
New certificate focuses on civically engaged health equity
The Department of Biobehavioral Health in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development has launched a new undergraduate certificate in Civically Engaged Health Equity, designed to prepare students to work in and with local communities on efforts related to health equity. The certificate is ideally suited for students interested in public health, healthcare, health promotion, social epidemiology, and other community-oriented careers, but it is open to all undergraduates at Penn State University Park.
Scoop: Atar Capital selling behavioral health provider Clarvida
It's one of several Medicaid-reliant care companies in market as federal funding and policy changes pressure state programs.
Texas council says more resources needed to address complaints against behavioral health providers
The agency that oversees behavioral health and social work providers has about 1,000 "pending" complaints against providers — hundreds more than it has received in previous years. Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council leadership told lawmakers it may need support from the state to handle the volume.
Real stories, real hope: Explore San Bernardino County Behavioral Health Services - Welcome to San Bernardino County
San Bernardino County’s Behavioral Health Department is proud to recognize May as Mental Health Awareness Month, a time dedicated to elevating mental wellness, reducing stigma and encouraging connection to supportive...
A Legacy of Care: How Pathways Behavioral Health Grew with West Tennessee
We're trusted with the health and wellbeing of more than half a million people living across 9,000 square miles of West Tennessee.
College of Health and Human Development ranked first in NIH-funding category
According to The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, the Penn State College of Health and Human Development received more funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2025 than any other school of allied health in the nation.
Davids Announces Funding to Improve Healthcare Access in Kansas’ Third District
Today, Representative Sharice Davids announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $2.6 million to Health Partnership Clinic to expand access to primary care, dental care, and behavioral health services in the greater Kansas City area.
Mesa County claims the state stiffed it $1.3 million for mental health services
The county is suing the state Behavioral Health Administration, which is looking into how the grant money was spent
College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences honors outstanding faculty and staff during annual awards presentation
The College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences (CBSHS) honored outstanding faculty and staff for their commitment to excellence in research,
Aldine ISD to Host More Good Days Together Mental Health Awareness Fair
The free, family-friendly event will connect the Aldine ISD community with wellness resources. Aldine ISD will host the More Good Days Together Mental Health Awareness Fair on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 5 p.m. at Davis High School, located at 12525 Ella Blvd. The free, family-friendly event is designed to connect the Aldine ISD community with mental health and wellness resources in a welcoming, supportive environment. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn coping strategies, discover local services, and connect directly with experts who can help address mental, emotional, and behavioral health needs. Because sometimes, the first step toward a [...]
Centra hosts ribbon cutting on new behavioral health facility
On Tuesday morning, Centra leaders cut the ribbon on the Centra Behavioral Health Hospital to help meet a critical need in our community.
Mamdani fills key post in new community safety office with behavioral health expert
Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed a longtime behavioral health leader on Tuesday to serve as commissioner of his newly created Office of Community Safety,
Superior HealthPlan Designates Three Texas Providers as Mental Health Rehabilitation and Targeted Case Management Centers of Excellence
The New Program Recognizes Multi-specialty Providers that Deliver High-quality Behavioral Health Services AUSTIN, Texas, May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Superior HealthPlan has designated three Texas...
Mamdani taps behavioral health leader to head new Office of Community Safety
Dr. Ayesha Delany-Brumsey previously served in a top behavioral health role during former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration.
CT children can’t wait any longer for more investment in behavioral health
It will not be possible to meet the behavioral health needs of CT children and families without raising Medicaid reimbursement rates.
Fairview residents surprised by proposed behavioral health treatment center
Wasilla-based True North Recovery plans to expand its services to Anchorage using federal grant money held by the municipality.
Helping Scientists Take Their Research Global: 7 Lessons - by Elena Brandt
The W.E.I.R.D research participant problem persists not because scientists fail to see it as a problem worth solving, but because conducting studies in new, unfamiliar places is difficult. But overcoming this difficulty is doable and essential.
Jason Mogus overcomes alcoholism. Becomes counselor and psychologist
In this week's Five questions with feature, meet Jason Mogus, COO of AVO Behavioral Health. He overcame alcoholism to become a psychologist.
Universal Health Services Adds Talkspace To Expand Virtual Behavioral Health Reach
Universal Health Services (NYSE:UHS) is acquiring virtual therapy provider Talkspace to build a virtual behavioral health platform. The transaction is aimed at supporting outpatient growth and extending UHS's reach beyond its traditional inpatient and facility based network. The company expects the deal to be accretive within 12 months and sees a multi year opportunity tied to digital care and operational efficiencies. For investors following NYSE:UHS, this move adds a digital layer to a...
Column: Mental Health Awareness Month demands more than awareness
Virginia’s behavioral health providers should deepen partnerships with public universities, William & Mary’s Kathleen Jabs and David Gosling write in a guest column.
Santa Fe County sheriff candidates divide on behavioral health solutions
Former police chief Paul Joye has advocated for an alternative response model in Santa Fe County; his opponents have expressed doubts.
New Allegheny Health Network behavioral health hub to open Pittsburgh
Behavioral health providers protest at CareSource handling of overpayments
Dozens of mental health professionals and social workers protested outside of the CareSource office building in response to the company’s recent decision to seek repayments from behavioral health providers going back up to two years.
Media Recap: Behavioral Health and Drug Manufacturer Pressures
Adam Carlson, senior vice president of Advocacy, MHA, joined J.J. Hodshire, president and chief executive officer, Hillsdale Hospital, for a press conference April 17 to discuss how proposed cuts to Medicaid will further destabilize hospitals already experiencing financial strain.
Breaking the Cycle: Behavioral Health Diversion Strategies for Counties
This interactive fireside chat brings together county leaders and behavioral health experts to explore how communities are building the diversion infrastructure to change outcomes.
Behavioral Health Is Health Care
AHA members are working every day to expand behavioral health access, integrate care, strengthen the workforce and reduce stigma, often while navigating limited resources and outdated systems that have not kept pace with need.
Senate Introduces Legislation on Behavioral Health Transport Vehicles
Michigan's behavioral health system has long faced a critical transportation gap — and the MHA is supporting efforts to close it.
Integrated Counselors: Bringing mental health to the physical world - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Choctaw Nation Behavioral Health provides integrated counselors in clinic settings to support patients experiencing emotional distress, difficult diagnoses, or needing support during medical visits.
Students award $10,000 to local mental health nonprofits
Students in the spring semester Philanthropy and Leadership MNGT 411 course at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business awarded $10,000 in grants through the Strive to Thrive Lincoln project to two nonprofits supporting mental and behavioral health in Lincoln — HopeSpoke and Lutheran Family Services.
Indianapolis public health office mismanaged oversight of most contracts, audit finds
The city’s public health office, established in 2016, oversees programs focused on homelessness, violence reduction and behavioral health.
Lawmakers urged by AHA to support key health initiatives in FY 2027 appropriations bill
The AHA April 29 urged House and Senate appropriations committee leaders to fund health care programs that have been successful in improving access to care for patients and communities nationwide, as the committee begins drafting the fiscal year 2027 appropriations bills. The AHA encouraged Congress to support various programs focusing on the health care workforce, maternal and child health, rural health, disaster preparedness, medical research and behavioral health. Additionally, the AHA urged legislators to include specific bill language that would bar the use of funds for the implementation of a 340B Rebate Model Program at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Brain Health Across the Life Span: A Framework for Future Studies
This Scientific Statement focuses on the role of nonvascular physical and psychological factors that impact brain health, which is described as the optimal functioning of the brain across cognitive, emotional and behavioral domains throughout life.
Vanderbilt Health clinicians seek to improve care for those with traumatic brain injuries
CBIS training covers the cognitive, psychological and social consequences of brain injury; behavioral approaches for managing challenging behaviors and promoting positive skills; and techniques for effectively working with families of individuals with brain injury.
Advancing mental health and SUD parity—from promise to practice
A powerful new tool will help close the persistent gap in access to and payment for behavioral care relative to physical health services.