Services
Children and Youth Behavioral Health Services DBH offers prevention, early identification and community based treatment services and supports.
The DBH Community Response Team (CRT), is a 24-7 multidisciplinary direct service team that expands our community based direct service efforts—including homeless outreach, mobile crisis, and pre-arrest diversion.
Individuals must lead their own recovery and peer support plays a vital role.
The D.C. School Behavioral Health Community of Practice (CoP) was launched in September 2019 to support the expansion of comprehensive school behavioral health supports in all D.C. public and public charter schools. The D.C.
The DC Stabilization Center (DCSC) is a safe place for people under the influence of a substance use disorder crisis to get the help they need.
Emergency psychiatric services available twenty-four hours a day/seven days a week.
We engage homeless people with a mental illness or substance use disorder to get into safe housing and treatment.
The South Capitol Street Memorial Amendment Act of 2012 mandates that the Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) provide behavioral health training to administrators and teachers of child development centers and DC Public and Public Charter Schools.
The Ombudsman Office serves as a neutral and confidential intermediary and provides an informal process to support District residents in resolving complaints related to DBH programs, services and its certified providers.
The Parent Support Program enhances resilience of families, by providing coping tools and consultation services to help manage stressors.
Learn how to become a certified Peer Specialist to assist individuals to regain control over their lives and their own recovery process.
DBH offers substance abuse prevention education and services for adolescents, families and communities.
Millions of lives are transformed through recovery. Treatment works. Recovery is possible.
DBH operates a school based program in a growing number of public and public charter schools that offers prevention, early intervention and clinical services to youth and their families.
