Improving the health and well-being of all Alabamians
We are a behavioral healthcare provider alliance dedicated to organizational and service excellence providing behavioral health, addiction recovery and developmental support services for consumers, families and communities in 21 predominantly rural Alabama counties with a population of approximately 614,000. The member agencies serve approximately 27,000 Alabamians each year.
Northwest Alabama Mental Health Center
Serving Walker, Winston, Marian, Lamar, and Fayette Counties
Contact at 205-387-0541
East Central Mental Health Center
Serving Pike, Bullock and Macon Counties
Contact at 334-566-6022
Cahaba Mental Health Center
Serving Dallas, Perry and Wilcox Counties
Contact at 334-875-2100
South Central Alabama Mental Health Center
Serving Butler, Coffee, Covington, and Crenshaw Counties
Contact at 334-222-2523
Southwest Alabama Behavioral Healthcare Systems
Serving Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, and Monroe Counties
Contact at 251-575-4203 or 800-239-4673
- Sharing programmatic and related data among Members aimed at improving productivity and effectiveness of the service delivery system.
- Regional advertising programs aimed at educating the public to services offered by Members.
- Technical assistance in program development, management and cost allocation.
- Training and education services for Members on new developments and trends in the behavioral health care industry.
- Forum for providers to discuss issues pertaining to their organizations.
- Accommodate new and innovative programs and arrangements for behavioral health care payment and delivery.
- Establish processes to promote evidence-based behavioral health care and patient engagement.
- Improve quality and efficiency of behavioral health services.
- Processes to report on quality cost measures and care coordination.
- Performance standards for providers.
Mental Health First Aid
Advancing Research on Empirically-Supported Interventions for Older Adults Living with Serious Mental Illness
The goal of this concept is to support research that addresses the optimization, effectiveness, implementation, coordination, and sustainability of empirically-supported therapeutic and services interventions within and across care settings to better meet the mental health needs of older adults with serious mental illness (SMI).
Read MoreAccelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia
The goal of this concept is to support the extension of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ) Data Processing, Analysis and Coordination Center to complete final data processing and analysis required to complete the study.
Read MoreResearch to Optimize the Effectiveness and Deployment of Suicide Prevention Services
This concept aims to support research to identify, optimize, and test solutions to enhance the effectiveness, quality, and availability of U.S. suicide prevention services.
Read MoreDeveloping Tools for Measuring Mental Health Outcomes
The National Institutes of Health has funded six projects to develop, test, and validate outcome-focused quality measures for mental health, which are used to understand the impact of interventions when implemented in real-world health care systems and settings.
Read MoreLocation
P.O. Box 964
Monroeville, AL 36460