NJAMHAA-FY23-Annual-Report

WA OR ID NV UT WY CO TX LA MS AR NE KS MN MI IL IN KY WV VA NY CA VT MT AZ AK HI NM OK WI OH PA ME IA MO AR TN NC SC GA FL ND SD MA NH CT RI NJ MD DC DE 12 Breaking Barriers in Behavioral Health Care Mental Health Services • $385 million for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHC), a $70 million increase over fiscal year 2022 • $1.01 billion for the Mental Health Block Grant to provide mental health treatment services and support community mental health services, a $150 million increase • $20 million, a $10 million increase, to expand a pilot program for crisis response • $501.6 million in fiscal year 2023 funding—a nearly $400 million increase—for the Suicide Prevention Lifeline to successfully transition to 988, which includes $7 million to continue the Behavi oral Health Crisis and 988 Coordinating Office at t he U.S. Department of Heal th and Human Services • $130 million for children’s mental health services, a $5 million increase • $140 million, a $20 million increase, for Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education), which will expand efforts to identify and help children and youth in need of mental health care • $111 million for Department of Education programs designed to increase the availability of mental health services in schools, including by expanding training programs to prepare new school counselors, social workers, and psychologists • Increases payments for mobile crisis response by 50 percent beginning January 1, 2024, and enables peers and other auxiliaries to deliver crisis and integration services. • Changes Medicare’s partial hospitalization benefit to provide coverage of intensive outpatient services, effective on January 1, 2024 • Extends through 2027 the Money Follows the Person Rebalancing demonstration. This program has already supported over 100,000 people to move out of nursing homes and other institutions and back to their communities. For more information on state-enacted legislation to implement and fund 988, visit: nashp.org/state-legislation-to-fund-and-implement-988-for-the-national-suicide-prevention-lifeline/ • Enacted Legislation (26 States) • N/A