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