This webinar will be held via Zoom Webinar. If you have issues registering or accessing the webinar platform, please email nacomeetings@naco.org.


 

Counties are leading the development, modernization and infrastructure of local crisis response systems as communities’ mental and behavioral health needs continue to grow. One critical strategy is implementing the 988 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in coordination with existing 911 emergency response systems. This webinar will highlight models of 988/911 collaboration, including recommendations for planning and implementation. Panelists will discuss progress, challenges and lessons learned from advancing their communities’ crisis response systems.

Hosted by NACo in partnership with RAND and The Pew Charitable Trusts, this presentation will include representatives featured in NACo’s and RAND’s respective publications on 988/911 collaboration. This event is a follow-up to NACo’s Shaping Crisis Response Spotlight Series briefs.

Watch recording

Related News

Thurston County, Wash. Commissioner Carolina Mejia answers a question during NACo’s Public Health Leadership Academy June 4 in Washington, D.C. To her right is Dr. Jen Freiheit, director of the Thurston County Public Health and Social Services Department. Photo by Charlie Ban
County News

Partnerships drive better community health, leaders say

Participants in NACo's Public Health Leadership Academy focused on building trust between public health professionals and elected leaders.

459158997
Advocacy

NACo endorses bipartisan legislation to help volunteer first responders access affordable housing

On June 10, Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) reintroduced the Volunteer First Responder Housing Act (S.4737), bipartisan legislation that would help qualified volunteer first responders access affordable housing.

2187644076
Advocacy

CMS Issues Interim Final Rule on Medicaid Community Engagement Requirements

On June 1, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Interim Final Rule with Comment Period (IFR) establishing binding standards for how states must implement Medicaid community engagement ("work") requirements enacted under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (P.L. 119-21), also referred to as H.R. 1.