Models of care are emerging throughout the United States that emphasize access to crisis services, jail diversion, and clinical accessibility to make it easier for end users with mental illness, substance use disorders, and other behavioral health concerns to get into the front door of care from any avenue. One model that has been particularly strong as a compliment to the CrisisNow model for community-based crisis prevention and postvention has been the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic model (CCBHC), which has been sponsored through federal efforts and related funding by both the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS). This paper highlights these approaches and takes one health system, the Sheppard Pratt Health System in Maryland, which operates a CCBHC funded by an expansion grant (CCBHC-E) at two sites and describes how it links crisis response efforts to an array of services that comprehensively meet the population needs. Throughout this paper, information can be gleaned to help state leaders who are aiming to establish their own crisis service systems in the context of other accessible services when needed through a variety of models
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