Farina Brown
Acting Director 

Laura Russell
Acting Deputy Director

Contact the division at HSS.DBH@Alaska.gov

"Partners promoting healthy communities."

Mission & Values

Substance Abuse or Mental Health Treatment Facility Locator

Serve clients with challenging
behaviors? Help is available.

Welcome to Behavioral Health

Continuum of Care

The Division of Behavioral Health has a commitment to improving the quality of life of Alaskans through the right service to the right person at the right time. The central purpose of the division is to provide a continuum of statewide behavioral health services (mental health and substance use) ranging from prevention and screening to brief intervention and acute psychiatric care.

 

1115 Waiver Demonstration Project

Alaska’s 1115 Medicaid waiver, the Alaska Substance Use Disorder and Behavioral Health Program, was approved for the original demonstration period of January 1, 2019, through December 31, 2023. Alaska is submitting a renewal application, in accordance with CMS requirements, to continue this demonstration for another 5-year period, January 1, 2024-December 31, 2028. The waiver would continue to provide Alaska with the flexibility to offer a broad range of substance use disorder and behavioral health services and reduce the State’s reliance on crisis services. Visit the 1115 Behavioral Health Medicaid Waiver

• Alaska’s 1115 Renewal Application and signed application letter to CMS 03/02/2023
  Disclaimer: DBH utilized accessibility checking software on the waiver renewal application PDF; at submission time, our manual check indicated all was in order, however, on pages 12 to 18, there's the possibility that several footnotes may be read out of order in the Adobe Acrobat software. Should any reader encounter difficulty with these pages, DBH will provide additional assistance on request.
• Full Public Notice can be found on the State of Alaska Online Public Notice site.
• Please visit our DBH Communications page for information and updates unrelated to the 1115 Demonstration Waiver

Alaska Community Resources

Substance misuse and addiction treatment
Are you finding it difficult to stop using alcohol, prescription medications or other substances? If you've thought about cutting down or stopping, here is a list of providers, Substance Use Disorder Treatment Providers (updated 12/2022) or see the links under Treatment Bed Availability on the right hand menu.

Alaska providers who offer opioid misuse treatment:

• Withdrawal Management and Detoxification Services 02/06/2020
• Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facility Locator

Resources for information on opioids (prescription pain medications, heroin and more) and treatment options:

• Opioids Fact Sheet
• Heroin and Opioid Use in Alaska

Resources

• Careline Crisis Intervention
• Division of Behavioral Health Infrastructure Analysis Project
• Decisions in Recovery: A new treatment tool for Opioid Use Disorder
• Alaska State Suicide Prevention Plan: FY2018-2022
• Strengthening the System: Alaska’s Comprehensive Integrated Mental Health Program Plan 2020-24
• Peer Support Webinars
• Find Substance Abuse Treatment

Public Comment Sought

Combined Behavioral Health Assessment and Plan (SABG and MHBG)

Public input is open for this SAMHSA grant application. To view the application, log into https://bgas.samhsa.gov/ with the username citizenak and password citizen.

Once you log in, click on the link “View an Existing Application” then click the link “2023 Block Grant Application” Finally, click the tab “View Application” to view the current State of Alaska 2023 Block Grant application.

For questions please email HSS.DBH@Alaska.gov.