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Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Research and Treatment Innovation and Mental Health Funding
Letter to House and Senate Committee leadership encouraging Congress to support robust FY 25 funding of at least $740M via the BRAIN Initiative for research on the causes, cures, and prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders. -
Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Research and Treatment Innovation and Mental Health Funding
Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committees requesting $35 million for the CDC, $25 million for the NIH, and $1 million for the NIJ to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention. -
Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Mental Health Funding
Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee leadership urging support of H.R. 7808, the Early Action and Responsiveness Lifts Youth (EARLY) Minds Act, which would allow states to use up to 5% of their Community Mental Health Block Grant funds for prevention and early intervention services with children and adults. -
Letter to CMS on Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Mental Health Workforce and Medicaid
Letter to Administrator Brooks-LaSure asking that CMS issue new guidance related to Youth Peer Support. -
Regulatory Comment to the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury on Parity
Letter urging the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury to immediately finalize the proposed rule, “Requirements Related to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.” -
Advocacy Resource on Health Equity, Social Supports and Research and Treatment Innovation
NAMI’s comments in response to the NIMH RFI on social determinants of health, urging NIMH to fund research that moves beyond identifying social determinants of mental health disparities, and instead identify state/community level solutions that have successfully addressed these drivers and strategies for scaling up these solutions at the federal level. -
Letter to CMS on Mental Health Workforce and Medicaid
Letter to Deputy Administrator and Director Daniel Tsai encouraging CMS to provide meaningful guidance to states on peer support services and peer support specialists as part of overall guidance on increasing behavioral health. -
Congressional Testimony on Mental Health Funding and Crisis Services
Outside Witness Testimony from NAMI’s Chief Advocacy Officer to the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee, thanking subcommittee members for prioritizing critical mental health programs in FY 24 and asking for continued investment in addressing the mental health crisis in FY 25. -
Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Mental Health Workforce
Letter thanking Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee leadership for their critical effort to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R. 7153/S. 3679), which provides health care workers better access to education and training on preventing stress and burnout before the need becomes dire. -
Letter to Congressional Leadership on Health Coverage
Letter to Congressional leadership re-introducing the Partnership to Protect Coverage and requesting a meeting to discuss issues impacting the patient and consumer community.
