2022 Community Behavioral Health Center Programs

Page updated December 22, 2022

CBHC Awards Announced

The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) and MBHP have announced the providers that will be designated as Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHCs). The designation of 25 CBHCs will expand access to routine, urgent, and crisis treatment for mental health conditions and substance use disorders starting in January 2023.

The designated CBHCs will provide same-day evaluation and referral to treatment, evening and weekend hours, timely follow-up appointments, and evidence-based behavioral health treatment, in person at their community-based locations and via telehealth. The statewide network of CBHCs will deliver 24/7 community-based mobile crisis intervention and stabilization, as an alternative to hospital emergency departments. These Centers will serve all ages and all communities across the Commonwealth.

The following providers have been selected for designation as CBHCs:

Region	Organization	Catchment Area
Central	Advocates	Acton, Ashland, Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Boxborough, Burlington, Carlisle, Concord, Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Maynard, Marlborough, Natick, Northborough, Sherborn, Southborough, Stow, Sudbury, Waltham, Watertown, Wayland, Westborough, Wilmington, Winchester, and Woburn
	Community HealthLink	Ashby, Ayer, Barre, Berlin, Bolton, Clinton, Fitchburg, Groton, Hardwick, Harvard, Lancaster, Leominster, Lunenburg, New Braintree, Oakham, Pepperell, Princeton, Rutland, Shirley, Sterling, and Townsend Auburn, Boylston, Grafton, Holden, Leicester, Millbury, Paxton, Shrewsbury, Spencer, West Boylston, and Worcester
	Riverside Community Care	Bellingham, Blackstone, Brimfield, Brookfield, Charlton, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, Franklin, Holland, Hopedale, Medway, Mendon, Milford, Millville, Northbridge, North Brookfield, Oxford, Southbridge, Sturbridge, Sutton, Upton, Uxbridge, Wales, Warren, Webster, and West Brookfield
	Clinical Support Options	Ashburnham, Gardner, Hubbardston, Templeton, Westminster, and Winchendon

Northeast	BILH Behavioral Health Services	Andover, Lawrence, Methuen, and North Andover
	Vinfen	Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Lowell, Tewksbury, Tyngsboro, and Westford
	Eliot Community Human Services	Lynn, Lynnfield, Melrose, Nahant, North Reading, Reading, Saugus, Stoneham, Swampscott, and Wakefield Amesbury, Beverly, Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Manchester by the Sea, Marblehead, Merrimac, Middleton, Newbury, Newburyport, Peabody, Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Topsfield, Wenham, and West Newbury

Metro Boston	Cambridge Health Alliance	Cambridge, Somerville, Everett, Malden, and Medford
	North Suffolk Mental Health Association	Chelsea, Revere, East Boston, Winthrop, and Charlestown
	Boston Medical Center	Boston, Brighton, and Brookline
	Riverside Community Care	Canton, Dedham, Dover, Foxboro, Medfield, Millis, Needham, Newton, Norfolk, Norwood, Plainville, Sharon, Walpole, Wellesley, Weston, Westwood, and Wrentham
	Aspire Health Alliance	Braintree, Cohasset, Hingham, Hull, Milton, Norwell, Quincy, Randolph, Scituate, and Weymouth

Western	Clinical Support Options	Amherst, Chesterfield, Cummington, Easthampton, Florence, Goshen, Hadley, Hatfield, Middlefield, Northampton, Pelham, Plainfield, Westhampton, Williamsburg, and Worthington Ashfield, Athol, Bernardston, Buckland, Charlemont, Colrain, Conway, Deerfield, Erving, Gill, Greenfield, Hawley, Heath, Leverett, Leyden, Millers Falls, Montague, New Salem, Northfield, Orange, Petersham, Phillipston, Rowe, Royalston, Shelburne, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Turners Falls, Warwick, Wendell, and Whately
	Behavioral Health Network	Agawam, Blandford, Chester, East Longmeadow, Granville, Hampden, Huntington, Indian Orchard, Longmeadow, Montgomery, Russell, Southwick, Springfield, Tolland, Westfield, West Springfield, and Wilbraham
	Center for Human Development	Belchertown, Bondsville, Chicopee, Granby, Holyoke, Ludlow, Monson, Palmer, South Hadley, Southampton, Thorndike, Three Rivers, and Ware
	The Brien Center	Adams, Alford, Becket, Cheshire, Clarksburg, Dalton, Egrement, Florida, Great Barrington, Hancock, Hinsdale, Lanesboro, Lee, Lenox, Monroe, Monterey, Mount Washington, New Ashford, New Marlboro, North Adams, Otis, Peru, Pittsfield, Richmond, Sandisfield, Savoy, Sheffield, Stockbridge, Tyringham, Washington, West Stockbridge, Williamstown, and Windsor

Southeast	High Point	Abington, Avon, Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Easton, Holbrook, Rockland, Stoughton, West Bridgewater, and Whitman
	Child and Family Services	Acushnet, Carver, Dartmouth, Duxbury, Fairhaven, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Kingston, Marion, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, New Bedford, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rochester, and Wareham Fall River, Freetown, Somerset, Swansea, and Westport
	Community Counseling of Bristol County	Attleboro, Berkley, Dighton, Lakeville, Mansfield, Middleborough, North Attleboro, Norton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Taunton
	Bay Cove Human Services	Barnstable, Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Chilmark, Cotuit, Dennis, Eastham, Falmouth, Harwich, Hyannis, Mashpee, Orleans, Osterville, Provincetown, Sandwich, Truro, Wellfleet, Woods Hole, and Yarmouth
	Fairwinds Center	Nantucket

Request for Proposals

Notice of Intent to Procure Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) Programs

Procurement Announcement

February 1, 2022 - The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) is expanding and strengthening the delivery of community behavioral health services across the Commonwealth. A key component of this initiative is EOHHS' development of a comprehensive network of Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHCs).

CBHCs will serve as hubs of coordinated and integrated mental health and substance use disorder treatment for MassHealth members of all ages and will provide routine and urgent outpatient services, crisis services for adults and youth, and community crisis stabilization services for adults and youth.

The current Adult Community-Based Mobile Crisis Intervention (AMCI) program, also known as the Emergency Services Program (ESP), and Youth Community-Based Mobile Crisis Intervention (YMCI), also known as Mobile Crisis Intervention (MCI), will be integrated into the CBHC network. EOHHS has developed program specifications and quality measures to ensure the success of this model.

As the statewide behavioral health vendor for EOHHS, the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership (MBHP) is procuring the network of CBHCs to serve MassHealth members enrolled in MBHP. CBHCs procured through this process will deliver services in accordance with the EOHHS approved performance specifications and other programmatic requirements. Other MassHealth-contracted Managed Care Entities (MCEs) will also be expected to contract with the selected CBHCs. This procurement is inclusive of:

Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHCs)
Adult Community-Based Mobile Crisis Intervention (AMCI, a.k.a. Emergency Services Programs (ESPs))
Youth Community-Based Mobile Crisis Intervention (YMCI, a.k.a. Mobile Crisis Intervention (MCI))
Adult Community Crisis Stabilization (Adult CCS)
Youth Community Crisis Stabilization (YCCS)

Timeline

Please view the updated timeline below.

RFP Component	Date
RFP release	Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Question submission begins	Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Question submission deadline	Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Bidders' conference	Friday, February 18, 2022
FAQ Part I release date	Monday, March 14, 2022
FAQ Part II release date	Friday, March 25, 2022
Letter of Intent deadline	Friday, March 25, 2022
RFP response deadline	Friday, May 6, 2022
DSRIP proposals due	Friday, May 6, 2022
Award date	By Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Anticipated implementation	January 1, 2023

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Please view the FAQ Part I document. (updated 4/22/2022)
Please view the FAQ Part II document. (updated 9/8/2022)
Please view the FAQ Part III document. (updated 12/22/2022)

Supplementary Utilization Data

EOHHS and MBHP are providing the following supplementary data on utilization of behavioral health services within the MassHealth population to inform the CBHC RFP process:
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