Biden-Harris Administration Announces Historic Investment to Integrate Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment into Primary Care

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$240 million in funding will launch and expand behavioral health care services in 400 Community Health Centers

that provide primary care to more than 10 million patients – advancing President Biden’s Unity AgendaToday, the Health Resources and Services Administration , an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services , announced $240 million in awards to launch and expand mental health and substance use disorder services in more than 400 community health centers across the country that care for more than 10 million people.

“In the Biden-Harris Administration, more people now have health care coverage than at any point in our nation’s history. With today’s announcement to establish and expand behavioral health care in hundreds of community health centers, we are further demonstrating our commitment not only to health coverage but to access to care,” said HRSA Administrator Carole Johnson.

For the first time, making mental health a required component of HRSA’s initiative to expand school-based community health centers; Training thousands of new mental health providers including psychologists, psychiatric nurses, licensed clinical social workers, and counselors; Launching the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 833-TLC-MAMA to support the mental and emotional health of expectant and new moms; Training community health workers, peer support specialists and others with lived experience in supporting patients with behavioral health needs; and

 

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