We support health center efforts to fully integrate behavioral health services within primary health care. We also offer supplemental funding, when it’s available, for health centers to expand behavioral health services. Our funding helps health centers increase access to screening and treatment, either in person or through telehealth. It also helps ensure that health center patients have access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and related services. We provide technical assistance (TA) and training to support health centers in providing high quality services.
TA resources
HRSA-supported resources
- Behavioral Health TA – focuses on mental health and opioid use disorder services
- Substance Use Warmline – clinician-to-clinician consults by phone or online
HRSA webinars
- Tobacco Cessation for Persons of Reproductive Age Including Pregnant Persons
- Commercial Tobacco Cessation for Youth
Resources from other partners
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain
- Providers Clinical Support System – Medications for Opioid Use Disorders (SAMHSA-funded)
Review recent data
Program awardees and look-alikes report on a core set of measures each year. Get the latest Health Center Program Uniform Data System data.
Mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services
In 2023, health centers provided:
- Over 16 million mental health visits
- Over 1.7 million SUD visits
- More than 4.2 million tobacco cessation counseling visits
- More than 2.36 million patients with Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) services
Behavioral health workforce
In 2023, health centers employed over 20,000 behavioral health full-time equivalents (FTEs).
These included:
- Total mental health FTEs: 17,806
- Psychiatrists: 995
- Licensed clinical psychologists: 937
- Licensed clinical social workers: 5,580
- Other licensed mental health providers: 6,216
- Total SUD FTEs: 2,490
- Providers of MOUD services, either on-site or with whom the health centers have contracts: 12,816