Political Quotes

“This bill includes in it elements of H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, which is the most revolutionary change to mental health since the Community Mental Health Act of 1963. It includes fundamental changes in how we think about, talk about, and treat serious mental illness. It establishes an assistant secretary for mental health and substance use to disseminate evidence-based practices, ensure grants meet objective outcome measures, conduct ongoing oversight of grantees, and collaborates with other Federal departments on mental health. It creates an interagency coordinating committee to evaluate Federal programs related to mental illness and provide recommendations to better coordinate those programs. It authorizes a national mental health and substance use policy laboratory to promote evidence-based models of care and further develop, expand, replicate, or scale those programs. It provides funding for treatment and recovery for homeless individuals with mental health and substance use disorder services. It authorizes for the first time in law the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline program and the Minority Fellowship Program. It awards grants to develop, maintain, and enhance online psychiatric bed registries. It funds programs for telehealth so that people in rural communities and primary care physicians can have ready access to mental health services so sorely needed for their patients.…”