Henderson County Behavioral Health Coalition

The Henderson County Behavioral Health Coalition is the action team for mental health and suicide prevention as a Community Health Assessment priority. Partners completed a Results-Based Accountability Whole Distance Exercise in August 2022 and updated it on July 25, 2025. At the July 25, 2025, Coalition meeting, they confirmed that the current work plan is full and voted to pause new additions.

Chair: Melissa Witmeier, Public Health Strategist

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Actions & Approaches

What is in the works now

  • Community Paramedic Program

  • Adolescent behavioral health acute unit

  • Adolescent intensive outpatient program

  • Co-responder model, deflection social worker with Hendersonville Police Department

  • Additional outpatient behavioral health offices

  • Sources of Strength implementation

  • Suicide prevention trainings - Question, Persuade, Refer; Counseling on Access to Lethal Means and Comprehensive Suicide Intervention Workshop

  • Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Group

  • Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and Safe September campaigns

  • Henderson County Behavioral Health Conference

 Strategies in active development

  • Zero Suicide discussions

  • Suicide postvention response planning

 Queued for future consideration

  • LOSS Teams (Local Outreach to Survivors of Suicide)

  • Man Therapy campaign

  • Care Transitions Program for individuals with suicide risk

  • Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) mapping

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