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May 8, 2025 | Fact Sheet | Isha Weerasinghe

On the Chopping Block: How Medicaid Cuts Will Impact Mental Health

By Isha Weerasinghe and Jace Peterkin Medicaid is the nation’s single largest payer for mental health services and provides coverage for nearly 40 percent of all children in the United States. Medicaid also pays every 1 in 4 dollars for vital mental health and substance use disorder treatment. If…

May 1, 2025 | Fact Sheet | Isha Weerasinghe

Why SAMHSA’s Mental Health Block Grant Must Include Early Intervention and Prevention

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) manages two major block grant programs, the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant (MHBG) and the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services Block Grant (SUBG). Both grants provide states with essential dollars to fund key…

March 24, 2025 | Fact Sheet | Suzanne Wikle

It’s a Cut to Medicaid No Matter What You Call It

Republicans in Congress have proposed enormous cuts to Medicaid, which provides insurance to more than 70 million people—or 1 in 5 Americans. One way they plan to cut Medicaid is by increasing red tape and limiting eligibility.

February 5, 2025 | Fact Sheet | Suzanne Wikle

Our Nation’s Health Depends on Medicaid

Cutting Medicaid and taking away people’s health care will harm millions of Americans, worsen our maternal health crisis, increase child poverty, and further jeopardize rural hospitals and other providers.

February 4, 2025 | Fact Sheet | Isha Weerasinghe

Using a System Dynamics Approach to Improve Student Mental Health

From June 2023 to April 2024, CLASP and TYP Collaborative provided technical assistance to community advocates in three localities. Our goal was to increase access to equitable school-based mental health services.

July 25, 2024 | Fact Sheet | Isha Weerasinghe

Core Principles to Reframe Mental and Behavioral Health Policy: Infographic

This infographic helps advocates and policymakers understand the multitude of factors that contribute to mental health, and make the principles more accessible.

February 13, 2024 | Fact Sheet | Deanie Anyangwe

Challenges to Just and Effective 988 Implementation

This series of fact sheets explores the challenges and missed opportunities to effectively implement 988 and transform the United States’ existing mental and behavioral health crisis response system. 

January 3, 2024 | Fact Sheet | Isha Weerasinghe

The Connection Between Food Insecurity and Mental Health

Not having the option to buy food, let alone nutritious food, can have adverse effects on one’s physical and mental well-being.

August 15, 2023 | Fact Sheet | Hannah Liu

Deepening the Divide: Abortion Bans Further Harm Immigrant Communities

This fact sheet highlights how the overturn of Roe v. Wade exacerbated pre-existing barriers to abortion care for immigrants and proposes recommendations for Congress and the Biden Administration to support immigrant access to abortion.

May 15, 2022 | Fact Sheet | Juan Carlos Gomez

Removing Barriers to Mental Health Care is Essential for Children to Thrive

New from the Children Thrive Action Network: A state-by-state analysis of Medicaid coverage and what is needed for immigrant families to thrive.

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