Behavioral Health Artificial Intelligence Council (BH-AI Council)

Guiding ethical, compliant, and clinically-effective AI adoption in behavioral health and addiction treatment

About Us

The BH-AI Council is NBHAP’s coalition-style leadership body guiding ethical, compliant, and clinically-effective AI adoption in behavioral health and addiction treatment. Through member-led workgroups, the Council produces standards, education, and policy recommendations to help providers use AI safely while improving access and outcomes.

A member-driven council that functions as a national coalition, the BH-AI Council is NBHAP’s coalition-style body for advancing ethical, compliant, and clinically effective AI adoption in behavioral health and addiction treatment. Click the button to download our brochure, or Click Here to download a high resolution one-page flyer.

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Vision

AI strengthens behavioral health outcomes, access, equity, and provider sustainability without compromising privacy, ethics, or care quality.

Mission

The BH-AI Council unites NBHAP members and partners in a coalition framework to produce standards, education, and policy leadership for safe AI use in behavioral health.
Year 1 Objectives
Publish provider guidance for clinical and operational AI use.
Create an AI Ethics & Compliance Addendum aligned to NBHAP ethics and legal duties.
Drive policy advocacy on federal/state AI rules affecting providers.
Run education + CE: webinars, toolkits, adoption playbooks.
Protect equity: bias mitigation standards for SUD/MH populations.

Authority

The BH-AI Council is a coalition established by the NBHAP to support NBHAP’s mission through AI-focused education, guidance, and advocacy.

Scope

AI applications in behavioral health and addiction treatment including (but not limited to): clinical decision support, documentation, patient engagement, digital therapeutics, operations, marketing compliance, payer interaction, and workforce support.

Out of Scope

Endorsing specific commercial products without NBHAP vendor review; use cases violating NBHAP ethics or law; non-BH AI topics.

Deliverables

  • Annual “State of AI in Behavioral Health” brief
  • NBHAP AI Ethics & Compliance Addendum
  • Provider AI Implementation Playbook
  • Quarterly policy alerts/recommendations to NBHAP Advocacy
  • Minimum 4 CE-eligible trainings

NBHAP Behavioral Health Artificial Intelligence Council (BH-AI Council)

A Council in name that functions as a national coalition and serves as NBHAP’s AI product approval and guidance authority.

Authority

The BH-AI Council is a coalition established by the NBHAP to support NBHAP’s mission through AI-focused education, guidance, and advocacy.

Scope

AI applications in behavioral health and addiction treatment including (but not limited to): clinical decision support, documentation, patient engagement, digital therapeutics, operations, marketing compliance, payer interaction, and workforce support.

Out of Scope

Endorsing specific commercial products without NBHAP vendor review; use cases violating NBHAP ethics or law; non-BH AI topics.
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