Resources

General Mental Health Information: 

• NAMI Wisconsin Resource Guide 

• 2025 Wisconsin Mental Health and Substance Use Needs Assessment 

• 2019 Behavioral Health System Gaps Report 

• Mental Health Terminology

• Slides on Mental Health System Overview

Outpatient care: 

• Telehealth in Behavioral Health (hhs.gov)

• OIG Report- Limited Behavioral Health Networks in Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (2025)

• Inseparable

Crisis care: 

• Attorney General’s Report on Recommendations to Reform Emergency Detention and Crisis Response (2021)

• Recommendations to Improve Crisis Care and Emergency Detention

• DHS Report on Crisis Services and Emergency Detentions Statewide, 2013-2021

Inpatient care:

• WHA Information Center Behavioral Health Dashboards

Mental Health Workforce: 

• Wisconsin Peer Recovery Workforce

• NCSL Behavioral Health Workforce Shortages and State Resource Systems (2024)

• Behavioral Health Workforce Shortages (GAO, 2022)

• BLS Careers in MH Services (2023)

• National Council: Build a Sustainable MH Workforce (2025)

• NCSL Peer Support Specialists (2025)

• Governor’s Task Force on the Healthcare Workforce Report (2024)

Mental Health System Reform

• Minnesota Mental Health Action Group Report

Emergency Detention

• Chapter 51.15 Emergency Detention in Wisconsin: Issues and Effective Practices