By Rachel Wilensky and Stephanie Schmit On March 15, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 into law. The law decreased nondefense spending by $13 billion but kept spending levels the same as fiscal year (FY) 2024 for many…
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.
By Ashley Burnside and Jesse Fairbanks, In 2025, several provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 are scheduled to expire. This provides an opportunity for lawmakers to reform our tax code so that it serves families with low incomes instead of…
The guidance on limiting enforcement in and near sensitive locations played a critical role in providing families with a sense of security in places they accessed every day to thrive and contribute to their communities. It is imperative that Congress codify this longstanding policy.
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.