UIBH is a consortium group of 20 private community based behavioral healthcare providers dedicated to bridging the acknowledged gap between science and practice in the New York City multiethnic environment. Combined, UIBH agencies serve in excess of 40,000 consumers annually across multiple program types in the publicly funded behavioral health system of New York City. In aggregate, the agencies cover the gamut of behavioral health services, including but not limited to: clinics, Assertive Community Treatment teams, Continuing Day Treatment Programs, residential and housing services, Intensive Psychiatric Rehabilitation Treatment, homeless outreach, HIV/AIDS services, clinics based services, comprehensive services for intellectual disabilities, physical healthcare, and school based services, provided to consumers from diverse diagnostic categories (e.g. persons with serious mental illness, persons with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders, intellectual disabilities, children with severe emotional disturbance, persons with a history of homeless, forensic involvement, HIV/AIDS, etc), in an economically marginalized multi-ethnic urban environment.
