AHRQ’s Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care has released a new suite of tools designed to make behavioral health integration more accessible, effective, and sustainable. These updated resources offer practical guidance, partnerships, and evidence-based strategies to help primary care teams strengthen whole-person care and better support patients’ mental health needs.
The AHRQ Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care has introduced three new tools to advance behavioral health integration:
- Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Ecosystem Directory: An interactive, searchable directory of organizations—including federal agencies, academic centers, and nonprofits—that can help providers, policymakers, funders, researchers, and others find the right partners to support their organization’s behavioral health integration goals.
- Updated Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care Playbook: Now redesigned for easier navigation, the Playbook features clearer guidance on financing and payment strategies, whole-person care, and community engagement. Access new content on electronic health record optimization, population health management, quality improvement, workforce solutions, and telehealth to enhance integration and reduce provider burnout.
- Emerging Best Practices for Addressing Suicidality in Primary Care: The latest topic brief helps primary care teams identify and respond to suicide risk through practical, scalable interventions such as safety planning, crisis response, motivational interviewing, Caring Contacts, and integrating the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline into routine care.
Access the directory, the playbook, and the topic brief to strengthen your practice’s approach to behavioral health integration.
