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Education Session B

B1 - Creating the Largest Nonprofit Behavioral Health Provider in the US

Monday, April 27, 2026
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM MDT
November 3, 2025 marked the completion of Centerstone's historic merger with Brightli. Together, their organization now employs more than 10,000 team members and serves the mental health needs of more than 250,000 people annually. Centerstone now moves forward with a mission to make behavioral health care more accessible and more powerful than it has ever been. Join this session to hear how the historic merger provides opportunity to reach more people, invest in innovation and build a future where access, quality and compassion define behavioral health care in this country.

Learning Objectives:

  • Review the reasoning behind merging two large treatment organizations.
  • Explore the new opportunities their new scale provide and how it can impact the field.
  • Examine how this large organization will still prioritize personal touch and local administration over local care.