Investing in New Hampshire’s Community Mental Health System
New Hampshire was awarded $204 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to implement the first year of its five-year Rural Health Transformation (RHT) plan. The State’s RHT plan will be administered by the Governor’s Office through the Governor’s Office of New Opportunities and Rural Transformational Health (GO-NORTH).
On March 25, 2026, GO-NORTH contracted with the New Hampshire Community Behavioral Health Association (CBHA) to invest more than $21 million per year to invest in the long-term sustainability of the State’s community mental health system and expand access to integrated behavioral health, substance use treatment and primary care.
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Community Behavioral Health Association Objectives
NHCBHA is charged with implementing the State’s RHT Community Mental Health Center initiative, which has four major objectives:
- Statewide adoption of the Certified Community Behavioral Health model, which expands access to, and integrates, behavioral health, substance use treatment, and primary care and expands access to 24/7 behavioral health crisis response services.
- Adoption of a common electronic health records system and other health IT systems to support care delivery and operations across all 10 CMHCs.
- Centralizing common infrastructure among all 10 CMHCs to support a coordinated statewide mental health system (e.g. revenue cycle management, claims and billing, technology adoption, shared staffing, ).
- Expand and develop the CMHC workforce to support open access to integrated behavioral health, substance use treatment, and primary care and 24/7 behavioral health crisis response services.