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Audit maps Utah behavioral health funding and recommends interim oversight to reduce fragmentation
Summary
Legislative auditors produced an interactive mapping of the state behavioral health system’s funding flows, finding fragmented funding streams, limited program-level performance measurement and a need for a central interim authority to improve coordination. The Health and Human Services Interim Committee and the Social Services Appropriations Sub
Legislative auditors presented a statewide review of how Utah funds behavioral health services on 2025-09-25, publishing an interactive map of funders, programs and recipient entities and concluding the system has fragmented funding streams, limited program-level performance measurement and insufficient cross‑agency coordination. The committee voted to refer the audit to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee (lead) and the Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee (review).
What auditors reviewed
Auditors compiled a large, interactive visual that links federal, state and local funding streams to programs across departments including the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Department of Corrections (UDC), the Utah State Board of Education…
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