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Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics in Michigan: Early Results

October 10, 2025

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs)

are non-profit organizations or units of a local government behavioral health authority designed to provide comprehensive, integrated mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services to anyone who walks through their door, regardless of their diagnosis, insurance status, ability to pay, or residence.

The Michigan Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Demonstration launched on October 1, 2021, with 13 participating sites. By October 2024, the Michigan CCBHC Demonstration was expanded to include 35 sites, making Michigan’s CCBHC Demonstration one of the largest in the country. The Demonstration requires CCBHCs, directly or through designated collaborating organizations (DCOs), to provide a set of nine (9) comprehensive core services deemed necessary to facilitate access, stabilize crises, address complex mental illness and addiction, and emphasize physical/behavioral health integration:

  • Crisis mental health services
  • Screening, assessment, and diagnosis, including risk assessment.
  • Patient-centered treatment planning
  • Outpatient mental health and substance use services.
  • Outpatient clinic primary care screening and monitoring of key health indicators and health risk.
  • Targeted case management.
  • Psychiatric rehabilitation services.
  • Peer support and counselor services and family supports.
  • Intensive, community-based mental health care for members of the armed forces and veterans.

    • Based on the early results from the Michigan CCBHC Demonstration, CCBHCs have successfully expanded overall
    access to behavioral health services for more people, including veterans and those with mild to moderate needs.

    Read the full brief here.

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