New Mexico Behavioral Health Services Division Emergency Response to COVID-19 is a statewide initiative to ensure access to evidence based screening, assessment and behavioral health treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Strategies include implementation of uniform screening and assessment practices and dissemination of evidence based practices including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Community Reinforcement Approach, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Medication Assisted Treatment. The populations of focus for this initiative include individuals with SMI, SED, SUD, and those with co-occurring SMI/SED and SUD. An additional priority population is individuals with mental health disorders less severe than SMI, including health care professionals impacted by COVID-19 and others impacted by COVID-19 throughout NM. NM is the most ethnically diverse state in the continental US, with 49.1% of the population identifying as Hispanic, 37.1% as Non-Hispanic White, 10.9% as American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN), 2.6% as African American, 1.8% as Asian, and 0.2% as Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. According to the SAMHSA Uniform Reporting Systems Tables, 83.2% of adults served by NM's public behavioral health system meet criteria for an SMI (roughly 72,000 adults) and 72.1% of youth meet criteria for an SED annually. Additionally, 30% of adults and 6% of youth meet the criteria for a COD annually. Project goals are to 1) train and provide ongoing coaching to providers on evidence based practices that can be delivered via telehealth; 2) rapidly implement these practices; 3) enhance our statewide crisis and access line (NMCAL) to screen, assess and serve the health care workforce and others impacted by COVID-19; 4) implement peer recovery supports; and 5) support the network of crisis response currently being developed, including mobile outreach, crisis triage centers, and statewide access to telepsychiatry, with services offered via telehealh and face-to-face. Conservatively, over 500 individuals will be provided direct services (including treatment and recovery support services) and over 1000 will access services via the New Mexico Crisis and Access Line (including people with SMI, SUD and COD, health care providers, and others impacted by COVID-19) through this initiative. Metrics include: number of providers trained; delivery of services within 4 months of award; number of individuals engaged in recovery supports; number of individuals receiving treatment; diagnoses; services received; and outcomes such as changes in criminal justice status, hospitalizations, employment, mental health functioning, social connectedness, and substance use.