The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders convened three virtual webinars focused on challenges and opportunities to support state and local implementation of 9-8-8.

The first webinar presented an overview of the 9-8-8 implementation landscape and explored how mental health and crisis services need to be viewed as a utility and public good for counties to adopt and implement. The second webinar featured 9-8-8 implementation examples at the state and local level. The third webinar focused on collecting data and developing metrics to help inform 988 implementation and improvement efforts.