MHA strongly supports Rep. Chu’s and Rep. Smith’s bill to provide Medicare coverage for peer support services for individuals within integrated physical and mental health care.
In today’s “deinstitutionalized” world, prisons and jails function as makeshift asylums with the shared goal of containing and segregating Black and Brown disabled communities from the rest of…
There is a workforce shortage in mental health, and these terrible policies are part of the reason why.
The bill was the start of a commitment federal government made to its citizens to provide a safety net to the uninsured who did not have a way to pay for health care.