​The Pacific Substance Abuse and Mental Health Certification Board (PSAMHCB), under the auspices of the Pacific Behavioral Health Collaborating Council (PBHCC), is a nonprofit regional organization whose purpose is to set and maintain professional certification standards for those practitioners within the substance abuse and mental health field.  This serves the profession by defining the practitioner’s qualifications at the international level and it provides the individual with a credential certifying professional competence.  PBHCC has sole jurisdiction over the Certification Board for certifying addiction counselors, co-occurring disorder counselors and substance abuse prevention specialists in the Pacific Region representing six Pacific Jurisdictions: American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau.