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February 9, 2021 | Fact Sheet | Nia West-Bey

Prioritize Young People’s Mental Health with $7.5 Billion Investment

We urge Congress to prioritze young people's healing and wellbeing by making a targeted $7.5 billion investment -- over and above the $4 billion already proposed -- in the mental health of youth ages 16-25. 

June 22, 2020 | Fact Sheet

Text-based Mental Health in Medicaid: An Advocacy Explainer

State legislative action is necessary to expand the definition of telehealth to include text messaging and other forms of technology. Read more from CLASP's recent explainer.

September 23, 2019 | Fact Sheet

CLASP’s Policy Advancing Transformation and Healing (PATH) Technical Assistance Project and Learning Community

This is an overview of CLASP's Policy Advancing Transformation and Healing (PATH) Technical Assistance Project and Learning Community,

September 23, 2019 | Fact Sheet | Isha Weerasinghe

PATH: Policy and Systems Change Framework

CLASP's Policy Advancing Transformation and Healing (PATH): A Young Adult Mental Health Policy and Systems Change Initiative Framework outlines CLASP's young adult mental health project. 

January 22, 2019 | Fact Sheet

Members of CLASP’s Mental Health Advisory Board

To help guide CLASP's works and technical assistance efforts in mental and behavioral health, the team asked a number of experts in many fields, including mental and behavioral health, federal Medicaid policy, racial justice, youth workforce development, including voices from impacted communities, to be a…

January 22, 2019 | Fact Sheet | Isha Weerasinghe

Policy Advancing Transformation and Healing (PATH) Request for Proposals

This RFP from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), funded by the Kresge Foundation, offers state and local agencies and system leaders in mental health, health, human services, youth, and aligned sectors an opportunity to partner with experts around the country to advance…

December 4, 2018 | Fact Sheet | Nia West-Bey

Young Women of Color and Mental Health

This fact sheets outlines a key structural barrier experienced by young women of color: inequity in mental health.

June 15, 2017 | Fact Sheet | Nia West-Bey

Health Justice Fact Sheet

This fact sheet lists the ways that the Affordable Care Act supports low-income young adult health and the threats that Republican health proposals pose.

June 5, 2017 | Fact Sheet | Nia West-Bey

Infographic: Go Throughs to Get Through

This infographic presents some key findings on the intersection of young adult mental health and poverty.

June 5, 2017 | Fact Sheet

Infographic: Mental Health Defined

This infographic shares the ways that young people who participated in CLASP's youth focus groups described mental health and wellbeing.

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