Baker administration’s ‘roadmap’ seeing some benefits

More than two dozen mental health services centers across the state have been designated Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHC) as part of former governor Charlie Baker’s last administration days community health services expansion efforts his office called a “roadmap for behavioral health reform.”
The state is expanding community health services to address the pairing of overall mental and physical health through the addition of crisis intervention teams, a 24-hour help line, and the CBHCs, seven of which are in western Massachusetts. Clinical and Support Options (CSO) has three CBHC areas covered by four offices – Athol, greater Gardner, Greenfield, and Northampton – and the other CBHCs in western Mass are Behavioral Health Network, t...