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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. -
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. -
Regulatory Comment to the Bureau of Justice Statistics on Criminal Justice and Research and Treatment Innovation
Comment to the Bureau of Justice Statistics in support of efforts to collect information through the tool, “Capital Punishment Report of Inmates Under Sentence of Death,” and recommending the tool collect information on mental health treatment and diagnosis to document the disproportionate use of capital punishment toward people with serious mental illness. -
Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Mental Health Workforce, Medicare, and Crisis Services
Letter in support of the Peers in Medicare Act, which would expand peer services in community Medicare settings and expand peer support in integrated care and as part of mobile crisis. -
Comfort with Talking to Others about Mental Health
A survey conducted by Pew Research Center illuminates how comfortable Americans are in discussing their mental health with different types of people.
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Improving Well-Being and Reducing Distress on a College Campus through Birdwatching
Research suggests that nature-based experiences can have a positive impact on mental health. In a pilot study, researchers explored this relationship among college students and staff, with a specific focus on birdwatching.
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Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Mental Health Workforce, Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Mental Health Funding
Letter to House and Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Committees requesting $250M to be split between the School-Based Mental Health Services Grant and the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant programs in FY 2025. -
Letter to HHS on Research and Treatment Innovation and Medicare
Letter to HHS Secretary Becerra seeking greater data collection and focus on incentivizing integrated behavioral healthcare in the CMS Innovation Center’s new primary care model, ACO Flex. -
Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Research and Treatment Innovation, Mental Health Funding and Criminal Justice
Letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees requesting the highest possible funding level in the FY 25 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) within the Department of Justice. -
Advocacy Resource on Research and Treatment Innovation and Veterans’ Mental Health
Friends of VA Medical Care and Health Research (FOVA) FY 2025 budget recommendations, urging Congress to continue its robust growth in the VA research program.