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The Trump administration will not renew Biden-era grants worth $1 billion that were aimed at boosting mental health services in schools, a Department of Education spokesperson confirmed to ABC News.

The Biden administration placed a greater focus on youth mental health as mental health problems reached crisis levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act ...

Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act of 2022. This bill reauthorizes through FY2027, expands, and modifies programs, grants, and activities that focus on mental and behavioral health. ... the Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Grant, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline program, grants related to suicide prevention, and;

National Tele Mental Health Programme (Tele MANAS), 2022. Launched on October 10, 2022, the National Tele Mental Health Programme (Tele MANAS) was a game-changer in India’s digital mental health infrastructure. Tele MANAS provides free, 24/7 mental health support to individuals through a national toll-free helpline (14416 / 1800-89-14416).

National studies reveal that 15% of India’s adult population experiences mental health issues requiring intervention, yet the treatment gap ranges from 70-92%, leaving millions without access to care. Although the Mental Healthcare Act of 2017 enshrines access to mental health as a statutory right, over 11 crore people in India still suffer ...

The Mental Health Care Act (MHCA), 2017 of India defines mental illness as "substantial disorder of thinking, mood, perception, orientation or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behaviour, capacity to recognise reality or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life, mental conditions associated with the abuse of alcohol and drugs but does ...

This bill requires certain federal actions to increase access to mental and behavioral health care. Among other provisions, the bill creates various grants to increase the number of school-based mental health services providers, establishes requirements for institutions of higher education concerning students with disabilities, prohibits ...

The Mental Healthcare Act was passed in April 2017 and came into effect from July 2018. The law repealed the Mental Health Act 1987. For UPSC 2022, follow BYJU'S PIB Summary.

The Bill would be repealing the existing Mental Health Act, 1987. Background There are around 6-7% of ... It also has a provision to protect, promote and fulfill the rights of such persons during delivery of mental health care and services. The Bill focuses on community based treatment and special provisions for women and health have also been ...

On August 8, 2016, the Mental Health Care (MHC) Bill, 2016 was passed in the Rajya Sabha. If the Bill is passed in the Lok Sabha, then it repeals the Mental Health Act, 1987. The Government of India ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2007. The Convention requires the laws of the country ...

The 2026 proposal is seeking to cut $33.3 billion in discretionary funding for HHS, representing a 26.2 percent reduction compared to the fiscal 2025 budget.. This includes a $3.6 billion ...

status (such as a history of a mental health condition). The ACA required coverage of mental health care. Before the ACA, some individual plans did not cover mental health and substance use disorder services.17 With the ACA, individual and small group plans must cover mental health and substance use disorder services

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) led Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in reintroducing the Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act, legislation that addresses the mental health crisis facing our youth through funding to support research, improves the pipeline of culturally competent providers, builds ...

Mental Health Care Bill, 2016: A boon or bane? Indian J Psychiatry. 2016 Jul-Sep;58(3):244-249. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.192015. Authors Gundugurti Prasad Rao 1 , Suresh Bada Math 2 , M S V K Raju 3 , Gautam Saha 4 , Mukesh Jagiwala 5 , Rajesh Sagar 6 , T S Sathyanarayana Rao 7 Affiliations 1 Division of ...

The cramped conditions are the result of President Trump’s decision to rescind remote work arrangements for federal employees, reversing a policy that at the V.A. long predated the pandemic.

(a) Suicide Prevention Lifeline.— (1) P LAN.—Section 520E–3 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb–36c) is amended— (A) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (e); and (B) by inserting after subsection (b) the following: “(c) Plan.— “(1) I N GENERAL.—For purposes of maintaining the suicide prevention hotline under subsection (b)(2), the Secretary shall ...

May 10, 2017. The American Health Care Act (AHCA), which passed the U.S. House on May 4, strips over $800 billion from Medicaid in the next 10 years, which will cause vital mental health services to be slashed.. The bill effectively ends Medicaid expansion—a lifeline for single adults with mental illness who fall through the cracks. 1 in 3 people covered by Medicaid expansion lives with a ...

The bill also requires the Center for Mental Health Services within SAMHSA to award grants to localities, mental health systems, mental health courts, or other entities for assisted outpatient treatment programs (i.e., medically prescribed mental health treatment that is lawfully ordered by a state or local court and that a patient receives ...

The HOPE and Mental Wellbeing Act would help address this problem by granting three mental or behavioral health care visits per year, at no cost sharing (no copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance), to beneficiaries in the Medicare (Parts B and C) and Medicaid programs. These visits could be used for outpatient mental or behavioral health ...