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Criminal Justice
Public Funding and Medicaid
Public Safety

Programs of Assertive Community Treatment: Oklahoma’s unmet needs and opportunities to expand intensive services

Our research finds that Oklahoma’s PACT teams serve less than half the number of people who would benefit from and be eligible for these services.

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Public Funding and Medicaid
Integrated Care

Knowledge base: Community mental health and the CCBHC model in Oklahoma

As the first state to fully transition to the CCBHC model, Oklahoma has been at the forefront of embracing change to better deliver community mental health care to its residents.

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Workforce

The state of Oklahoma's behavioral health workforce

Policymakers have realistic options for addressing the state's most pressing behavioral health workforce challenges. With roughly $30 million in targeted funding and policy initiatives, Oklahoma can significantly strengthen workforce pipelines to meet the state’s growing need for behavioral health professionals.

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Workforce
Integrated Care

Challenges and opportunities for Oklahoma’s psychologist workforce

Among Oklahoma’s non-prescribing behavioral health clinicians, psychologists have the greatest gap between supply and demand, meeting only 37% of the state’s estimated need. Without investments in the pipeline of future psychologists, Oklahoma will continue to struggle meeting residents' needs into the next decade.

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Youth & Schools
Substance Use

Data snapshot: Mental health and substance use in higher education

In this data snapshot, we highlight national prevalence rates of mental health conditions among U.S. college students as well as state rates of alcohol and substance use among college-age Oklahomans.

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Workforce

Knowledge base: Behavioral health workforce licensure in Oklahoma

Understanding the licensure process for behavioral health professionals is an important starting point for policy solutions that increase access to care for Oklahomans with mental health and substance use treatment needs.

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Integrated Care
Workforce
Parity

Accessing behavioral health providers through private insurance in Oklahoma

We found that health insurance networks offer poor access to the state’s behavioral health care providers — a barrier to care for more than 2 million Oklahomans with these plans.

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Workforce

Surveying Oklahoma’s behavioral health workforce

To better understand the accessibility of Oklahoma's workforce, Healthy Minds conducted a survey of Oklahoma's licensed behavioral health care providers.

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Youth & Schools

Opportunities for expanding school-based mental health interventions

Targeted interventions anchored within a comprehensive multi-tiered system of supports framework are crucial to the well-being of youth in our state.

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Substance Use

Data snapshot: Methamphetamine in Oklahoma

The co-use of methamphetamine and opioids (including fentanyl) has resulted in a significant increase in overdose deaths involving both substances in Oklahoma.

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