Promoting Behavioral Health Care
Helping normalize mental health care
The challenge
While mental health is as important to our overall well-being as physical health, use of mental health care services lags far behind medical care. To help Nevada Health Centers increase use of behavioral health services among the uninsured, underinsured, and geographically isolated Nevadans they serve, we first had to overcome two significant challenges: Stigma around mental health care and the perceived affordability barrier.