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On December 12, 2018, BHECON sponsored a reception for newly elected state legislators in Kansas. The reception was hosted by the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, the Heartland Regional, Alcohol & Drug Assessment Center and the Johnson County Mental Health Center. The recent election brought about...

On September 12th, BHECON attended the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas’ Annual Conference for Behavioral Health to provide an update on federal policies that impact providers on the ground and to present data on the current state of behavioral health in Kansas. The Conference’s approximately 400...

At the invitation of the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, BHECON, the National Council for Behavioral Health and the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics took part in the August 9th convening of the Kansas Mental Health Task Force in Topeka. The Kansas Cost...

  September 12th and 13th, 2018 At the Association of Community Mental Health Clinics of Kansas (ACMHCK) Annual Conference, BHECON will be on site to provide a federal policy update and a presentation of the 2018 Kansas Data Chartbook.

To support the continued efforts of Kansas’ Mental Health Task Force, BHECON has partnered with the Association of Community Mental Health Clinics of Kansas (ACMHCK) to bring Dr. Seth Seabury of the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics to Topeka to present the 2018 Kansas Data Chartbook....

The latest version of the Kansas 2018 Data Chartbook is now available, including a handful of updated data sets and additional information. Access the new Data Chartbook here.

The Cost of Mental Illness in Kansas: Now Available Created by our partners at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, this detailed data chartbook overviews the costs of mental illness in Kansas and highlights key data points related to behavioral health care access, prevalence and costs...

On March 15th, 2018 the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas (ACMHCK), in partnership with the Behavioral Health + Economics Network (BHECON), held a legislative forum to explore critical mental health treatment gaps and identify policy solutions in Topeka, Kansas. Behavioral Health Stakeholders, Local Law Enforcement and...