Substance Use and Mental Health

Each year, DHS selects several Strategic Initiatives—bold, transformative efforts aimed at improving the effectiveness of human services for everyone. These reports detail progress made in 2024 and goals for 2025.

New information added. This post includes information on current Allegheny County Opioid Settlement Projects.

This dashboard shows the current population of people who are receiving MOUD in the jail. as well as associated outcomes before and after their release. Data from 2021-present and updated weekly.

These interactive dashboards show information from resolve Crisis Services and include call volume, demographics of callers and mobile team dispatches. Data is available from 2023 to present and is updated monthly.

New information added. Since 2017, DHS has used data driven models to support prioritization of housing resources. Read more about their development and deployment in the homelessness and behavioral health systems.

Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS), along with Community Care Behavioral Health (CCBH), are pursuing a series of investments and initiatives aimed at addressing access to mental health services.

This report covers child fatalities and near fatalities in Allegheny County with a focus on drug ingestions, an increasing cause of these here and nationwide. The report discusses some of the county’s strategies to address this issue.

Updated with 2022 data. The Allegheny County Need Index was developed to identify areas of the County that have greater relative need. This report and related materials explore census tracts in need and recent trends.

This report highlights the 2023 DHS accomplishments that stood out. There are many, many other achievements. We chose the ones that made the biggest difference.

The Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) conducted a study of the involuntary hospitalization program in the county. Involuntary hospitalizations occur when an individual undergoing a psychiatric episode is […]

What are these reports about? Nationally and locally, policymakers and practitioners are interested in the people who frequently use publicly funded services, particularly crisis services. Most people who use crisis […]

Researchers and public representatives met to address challenges that persist throughout our crisis system. They developed a set of 16 recommendations.

This report and dashboard describe accidental overdose deaths that occurred in Allegheny County, with a look at trends in numbers of deaths, demographics, and substances involved.

Throughout the United States, people experiencing behavioral health challenges are overrepresented in the criminal justice system and Allegheny County is no exception. To better understand the state of our current […]

One way that Allegheny County promotes the provision of high quality behavioral health services is through value-based contracting (VBC), which pays providers of behavioral health services based on quality of […]