On May 17, the DBHDD Board approved a new structure for our regions that will improve the continuity of care and the accessibility of our behavioral health system by adding a sixth region and adjusting all of the regional borders accordingly. Our goal in developing this plan has been to improve the continuum of services for people with mental illness, substance use disorders, and developmental disabilities, and to raise our regional offices to a new level of leadership and responsiveness.
A discussion of Georgia’s mental health system was held this evening at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Since the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, the state’s lead agency in charge of policies and programs for people with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and substance use disorders, was not invited to participate in the discussion, the agency provided the following additional information.