A CCBHC is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center.  CCBHCs provide a comprehensive array of services needed to create access, provide the necessary treatment, and improve outcomes for those with mental illnesses and/or substance use disorders.

These services include, but are not limited to:

    • Screening and risk assessment for mental health, addictions, and basic primary care needs
    • Easy access to care with decreased wait times.  CCBHCs provide care within 10 working days from the date a potential client calls them
    • Ambulatory Behavioral Health Services for mental illness and substance use disorders
    • Crisis care for enrolled clients
    • Expanded care coordination to help individuals navigate the healthcare system
    • Peer Services
    • Family support services
    • Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services such as supportive employment and education

CCBHCs are available to any individual in need of care across the lifecycle.  This includes (but not limited to) people with serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, substance use disorders, and mild or moderate mental illness.  CCBHCs will provide care regardless of ability to pay, caring for those who are underserved, have low incomes, are insured, uninsured, or on Medicaid.

New Jersey has seven CCBHC providers who have been certified by the NJ Department of Health and NJ Department of Children and Families.  These 7 providers are located at 17 sites throughout the state.

When NJ is able to accept new CCBHC providers into the Medicaid network, providers must be certified by DHS and Children's System of Care (CSOC).  To that end NJ has developed the New Jersey Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Policy Manual.  The manual and its appendices will provide the user with the detailed information that they will need to understand how the service is delivered, how to become certified as a CCBHC, and payment details.  The manual and the appendices can be accessed here:

Manual-Coming Soon