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<li>Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, author, Surviving Schizophrenia</li>
<li>Glenn Close, Actress </li>
<li>Sally Satel, MD, Yale University School of Medicine </li>
<li>Pete Earley, Bestselling Author of CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness </li>
<li>Tom Dart, Cook County (Chicago) Sheriff </li>
<li>Ron Powers, Pulitzer prizewinner and author of No One Cares about Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America </li>
<li>Susan Adams, senior editor, Forbes </li>
<li>Norman Ornstein, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute </li>
<li>Rich Lowry, editor, National Review </li>
<li>Allen Frances, former chair of the DSM-IV Task Force, former President, American Psychiatric Association, author of Saving Normal </li>
<li>Rael Jean Isaac, coauthor, Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill </li>
<li>Xavier Amador, Author of, I am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!, former Board of Directors, NAMI </li>
<li>Charlie Rangel, former Member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY) </li>
<li>Eleanor Clift, Washington Correspondent, Daily Beast </li>
<li>John Snook, Executive Director, Treatment Advocacy Center </li>
<li>Chief (Ret.) Michael Biasotti, Contributor: International Association Chiefs of Police policy on handling of the mentally ill, and Fellow, U.S. Department of Homeland Security </li>
<li>Dominic A. Sisti, PhD, Director, The Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care, </li>
<li>Robert Paul Liberman, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine</li>
<li>Liza Long, author of The Price of Silence: A Mom’s Perspective on Mental Illness</li>
<li>Steven B. Seager, MD, producer/director of the award-winning documentary Shattered Families: The Collapse of America’s Mental Health System, and author of Behind the Gates of Gomorrah</li>
<li>Mia St. John, mental illness advocate and five-time World Boxing Council champion Natasha Tracy, author of Lost Marbles: Insights into My Life with Depression & Bipolar Anthony Daniels, Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. </li>
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<em><strong>Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill</strong></em> is by far the most well-researched and important book written on mental illness out today. With a foreword by Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, it is a must-have for anyone who wants better care for people with serious mental illness, reports on it, develops policy, works in mental health or criminal justice. It provides actionable ideas to lower rates of homelessness, incarceration, suicide, violence and expense.</div>
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<li>Dr. E. Fuller Torrey</li>
<li>Glen Close, Actress</li>
<li>Sally Satel, MD, Yale University School of Medicine</li>
<li>Pete Earley, Bestselling Author of <em>CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness</em></li>
<li>Tom Dart, Cook County (Chicago) Sheriff</li>
<li>Ron Powers, Pulitzer prizewinner and author of <em>No One Cares about Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America</em></li>
<li>Susan Adams, senior editor, Forbes</li>
<li>Norman Ornstein, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute</li>
<li>Rich Lowry, editor, National Review</li>
<li>Allen Frances, former chair of the DSM-IV Task Force, former President, American Psychiatric Association, author of <em>Saving Normal</em></li>
<li>Rael Jean Isaac, coauthor, <em>Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill</em></li>
<li>Xavier Amador, Author of,<em> I am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!,</em> former Director of Psychology and Professor Department of Psychiatry Columbia University; and Board of Directors, NAMI</li>
<li>Charlie Rangel, former Member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY)</li>
<li>Eleanor Clift, Washington Correspondent, Daily Beast</li>
<li>John Snook, Executive Director, Treatment Advocacy Center</li>
<li>Chief (Ret.) Michael Biasotti, Contributor: International Association Chiefs of Police policy on handling of the mentally ill, and Fellow, U.S. Department of Homeland Security</li>
<li>Dominic A. Sisti, PhD, Director, The Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Robert Paul Liberman, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, Director of the UCLA Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program</li>
<li>Liza Long, author of <em>The Price of Silence: A Mom’s Perspective on Mental Illness</em>, a 2015 Books for a Better Life award winner</li>
<li>Steven B. Seager, MD, producer/director of the award-winning documentary Shattered Families: The Collapse of America’s Mental Health System, and author of <em>Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year with the Criminally Insane</em></li>
<li>Mia St. John, mental illness advocate and five-time World Boxing Council champion</li>
<li>Natasha Tracy, author of <em>Lost Marbles: Insights into My Life with Depression & Bipolar</em></li>
<li>Anthony Daniels is the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.</li>
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This well-researched and highly critical examination of the state of our mental health system by the industry’s most relentless critic presents a new and controversial explanation as to why—in spite of spending $147 billion annually—140,000 seriously mentally ill are homeless, 390,000 are incarcerated, and even educated, tenacious, and caring people can’t get treatment for their mentally ill loved ones. DJ Jaffe blames the mental health industry and the government for shunning the 10 million adults who are the most seriously mentally ill—mainly those who suffer from schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder—and, instead, working to improve "mental wellness" in 43 million others, many of whom are barely symptomatic. Using industry and government documents, scientific journals, and anecdotes from his thirty years of advocacy, Jaffe documents the <em>insane consequences</em> of these industry-driven policies: psychiatric hospitals for the seriously ill are still being closed; involuntary commitment criteria are being narrowed to the point where laws now <em>require</em> violence rather than prevent it; the public is endangered; and the mentally ill and their families are forced to suffer.</div>
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<em>Insane Consequences</em> proposes smart, compassionate, affordable, and sweeping reforms designed to send the most seriously ill to the head of the line for services rather than to jails, shelters, prisons, and morgues. It lays out a road map to spend less on mental "health" and more on mental "illness"––replace mission creep with mission control and return the mental health system to a focus on the most seriously ill. It is not money that is lacking; it’s leadership.</div>
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This book is a must-read for anyone who works in the mental health industry or cares about the mentally ill, violence, homelessness, incarceration, or public policy.<br />
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I certainly haven’t been an advocate for the mentally ill for as long as Mr. Jaffe, but even so, I find the arguments put forth in this book undeniable and his blueprint for how to fundamentally change how we must care for the seriously mentally ill just common sense, as difficult as it may be. The truth in this book haunts me with its blazing clarity. Mr. Jaffe’s informed and passionate plea for fundamental change is rooted in a sense of deep humanity. He has paid attention to those who are neglected and suffering right under our noses and challenges us to do something about it.</div>
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"DJ Jaffe is a tireless champion of people suffering from severe mental illness. <em>Insane Consequences</em> overflows with DJ’s passion, insight, and, of course, his astute policy prescriptions. Essential reading for anyone concerned about America’s most vulnerable."</div>
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"DJ Jaffe spares no one in this scathing examination that asks: why are we turning our backs on the seriously mentally ill dying on our streets while we’re squandering millions? <em>Insane Consequences</em> delivers a searing indictment of our current policies and offers readers Jaffe’s road map for radically transforming how we can help the sickest of the sick. A timely and thoughtful analysis of a broken system that needs replacing."</div>
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"In this book, DJ Jaffe importantly illuminates the countless and unacceptable failures of our mental health system—including the barbaric criminalization of mental illness, which places sick people in jails like my own, instead of treatment facilities. Jaffe also poses many commonsense solutions that should be taken seriously by lawmakers."</div>
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"Mental illness is America’s true ‘enemy within.’ Its tentacles devastate victims, families, communities, our court and law enforcement systems, our economy, and our national character—even as we focus our attention outward on endless ‘public’ issues. No one understands this better than DJ Jaffe. An activist hero in the arduous fight for mental healthcare reform, he has poured his vast wisdom and information into A slashing, comprehensive, highly readable call to awareness and action. Every literate American should read <em>Insane Consequences</em>. Every literate American. Period."</div>
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"Insane Consequences exposes in relentless and compelling detail one of the worst public health scandals of our time. Instead of helping and treating people with serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, we relegate them to the streets and homeless shelters, incarcerate and too often kill them. For thirty years, DJ Jaffe has worked as a tireless advocate for sensible government policies and for compassion and understanding of the real issues at stake affecting this vulnerable, abused population. This book will break your heart, make you furious, and ultimately give you hope when you read Jaffe’s smart ideas for reform."</div>
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"Life for those with serious mental illness—schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, deep depression—can be and usually is an unremitting hell. The emotional pain of the brain disease is often accompanied by homelessness, imprisonment (often in solitary confinement), and violent encounters with police or others. The emotional pain and dislocation is unremitting as well for families of those who have serious brain diseases, powerless to help their loved ones after they have reached the age of eighteen, especially loved ones with no recognition that they are ill, and family members are unable to get even basic information from health authorities under HIPAA. No one understands these problems more than DJ Jaffe, and no one has worked harder to remove the grip of an insensitive government bureaucracy and a mental health industry that turns resources away from the seriously ill while [We’re] forcing people with no recognition of their illness onto the streets or into the jails in the name of civil liberties. <em>Insane Consequences</em> is a guidebook that details what the problems are, who is responsible, and, most important, [details] what we should do to fix things. If we cannot cure serious mental illness, we can improve the lives of those who suffer from it. That is Jaffe’s life’s work and why this book is so important."</div>
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"The neglect of the seriously mentally ill is one of the greatest disgraces of our age. DJ Jaffe calls us back to common sense and basic decency in this deeply felt, important book. Read it, weep, and learn about the better path of treatment for the sick and find compassion for their families, topics that Jaffe sets out so compellingly."</div>
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"DJ Jaffe is a world’s expert at exposing the cruel paradox that we carelessly over-treat the worried well, while shamefully neglecting the really sick. A smart and compassionate call to action."</div>
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"In this important, thoroughly researched book, DJ Jaffe exposes what is probably the largest, most audacious bait and switch operation in US history: unbeknownst to the public, what Jaffe calls ‘the mental health industry’ siphons off billions of taxpayer dollars each year, designed to serve the seriously mentally ill, to scientifically baseless or irrelevant programs (like prevention, when no one has the faintest idea of how to prevent major mental illness). Worse still, the small proportion of funds that go to the seriously ill are used to prevent treatment (under the false flag of civil rights) rather than to provide it."</div>
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"DJ Jaffe gives us vital answers. There is no other book that so completely identifies, specifically, how the United States is condemning tens of millions of seriously mentally ill citizens to tragic lives of extreme isolation, homelessness, incarceration, violence, [and] suicide, and the lost chance of recovery. Much more than a screed against the mental health industry, lawmakers, the justice system, and an apathetic public, this book provides science-based commonsense answers that work. It should be mandatory reading for all involved in mental illness treatment, public safety, healthcare legislation, the justice system, and helping family caregivers."</div>
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—<strong>Xavier Amador, Author of, <em>I am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!</em> former Director of Psychology and Professor Department of Psychiatry Columbia University; and Board of Directors, NAMI</strong></div>
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"I am proud that DJ Jaffe, a constituent and member of the Harlem chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness, has been tirelessly advocating to help the seriously mentally ill. Through increased awareness and improved public policy as outlined in this book, we can combat challenges we face to ameliorate mental health."</div>
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"In the complicated and often crazy world of mental illness, DJ Jaffe provides important guidance to journalists seeking a sound bite while conveying controversial information."</div>
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<em>"Insane Consequences</em> is a thorough accounting of the innumerable tragedies and lost opportunities brought about by America's broken mental health system. This book is the culmination of DJ's long history of speaking truth to power and provides a compelling counter-argument to those who would attempt to maintain the current status quo."</div>
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<em>Insane Consequences</em> does an amazing job explaining the impact of the failed mental health system on the criminal justice system. Every advocate, police chief, sheriff, district attorney, and mayor should read it.</div>
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"In <em>Insane Consequences</em>, DJ Jaffe marshals compelling case accounts and empirical data to show how America’s mental health system—such as it is—grossly misallocates resources by focusing on the "worried well" at the expense of those with serious brain disorders. One result is that our nation’s jails have become de facto psychiatric institutions. This is a serious ethical transgression that Jaffe’s hard-hitting account makes impossible to ignore."</div>
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"DJ Jaffe has written a readily accessible and up-to-date book on serious mental disorders that should be a must-read for laypersons interested in mental disorders, family members of mentally ill persons, and patients themselves. A wide variety of mental disorders are described with clarity and graphic case examples. Moreover, the author points out clearly that lack of treatment facilities for the seriously mentally ill has led to their criminalization with many more of these individuals now in jails than in psychiatric hospitals.<strong>"</strong></div>
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"Jaffe’s book is to the mental health industry what Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth was to climate change. We can no longer afford to ignore the most seriously ill. My son and all people living with mental illness have a right to treatment. This book provides real solutions that will save money and lives."</div>
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<strong>—Liza Long, author of <em>The Price of Silence: A Mom’s Perspective on Mental Illness,</em> a 2015 Books for a Better Life award winner</strong></div>
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"Want to know what’s wrong with America’s disastrous mental health system? Look no further than DJ Jaffe’s thoughtful, clear, and insightful presentation on the shortfalls in a system that tolerates abuse, neglect, and suffering as a matter of official policy. Want to fix the system? Jaffe discusses this in the same straightforward, head-on manner. <em>Insane Consequences</em> is a must for any mental health library. It is a ‘how-to’ manual for mental health advocates, and a road map for legislators implementing much-needed changes. Well done, Mr. Jaffe."</div>
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<strong>—Steven B. Seager, MD, producer/director of the award-winning documentary Shattered Families: The Collapse of America’s Mental Health System, and author of<em> Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year with the Criminally Insane</em></strong></div>
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"<em>Insane Consequences</em> is the first candid book about mental illness that I have read. It really pulls no punches. It speaks the truth about our system, instead of the usual sugar-coated version. You should read this book, even if you are not affected by mental health issues. It’s time to start educating the public about mental illness."</div>
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<strong>—Mia St. John, mental illness advocate and five-time World Boxing Council champion</strong></div>
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"<em>Insane Consequences</em> is a thorough accounting of the innumerable tragedies and lost opportunities brought about by America’s broken mental health system. This book is the culmination of Jaffe’s long history of speaking truth to power and provides a compelling counterargument to those who would attempt to maintain the current status quo."</div>
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<strong>—Natasha Tracy, author of <em>Lost Marbles: Insights into My Life with Depression & Bipolar</em></strong></div>
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"This book describes graphically and in close detail the elaborate system of neglect of the seriously mentally ill in America, operated mainly for the benefit of those who work in it. In this absurd system, which would be funny if it were not productive of so much tragedy, the mildly distressed are over treated and the raving mad receive no care. Jaffe decries the mental health industry’s waste, incompetence, and willful stupidity, and suggests remedies. A book that is urgently needed."<br />
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</span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outcome</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">center
directors</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">consistently</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">document</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">process</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">conduct</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ongoing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">oversight</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grantees;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>improve<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">other</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(SMI),</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">children</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">serious</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">emotional</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>disturbance<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(SED);</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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including<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Departments</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Defense (DOD),</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Veterans</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.9pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Affairs</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(VA),</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Housing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Urban</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Development</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(HUD),</span> and Labor<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> (DOL) </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">care</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">veterans</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">service</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">members,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">support</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>address<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">chronic
homelessness;</span> and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: 3.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder professionals.</span></span><br />
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6003. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Chief</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medical</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Officer</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Establishes</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Chief</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Medical<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Officer</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(CMO)
within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SAMHSA to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assist</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Assistant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluating</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">organizing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>agency<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">promote</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span>
promising<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>best<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.7pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">emphasizing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">clinical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">focus.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>CMO<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> real-world</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">experience </span>providing <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">care </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.9pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>CMO<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>to coordinate<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Assistant<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for </span>Planning<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Evaluation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(ASPE) </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assess</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.65pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
performance</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">metrics</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluate</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>SAMHSA<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> programs,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>coordinate<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Assistant</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.7pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ensure</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">consistent</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">utilization</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
appropriate</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">performance</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">metrics</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">designs.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 6004. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Improving</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">the Quality</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Behavioral</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Programs</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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Behavioral</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Statistics</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Quality</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>(CBHSQ)<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
at</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SAMHSA.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>CMO<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 2.6pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">quality</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">provided</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SAMHSA.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 6005. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Strategic</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Plan</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">identifies</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">priorities,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">strategy</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for </span>improving<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recruitment,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">training,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">retention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">workforce.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>plan<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">must</span>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">access</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">effective and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevention,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">diagnosis,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recovery</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Identify</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>ways to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>address <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">workforce issues;</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">and,</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>disseminate<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">best</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for prevention,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">diagnosis,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">early</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recovery</span>
focusing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">those with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SMI,</span> SED, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(SUD).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 6006. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Biennial</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Report
Concerning</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Activities</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Progress</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SAMHSA</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">submit</span>
a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> biennial</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>report<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Congress</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">containing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
review</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> progress</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">toward</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">strategic</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">priorities,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">goals,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">objectives</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">identified</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">strategic plan</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">as</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>well as<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assessment</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> programs,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">description</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> coordination</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">activities.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">This</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>report<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">will</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">also</span> include<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>improvement<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recommendations</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">made</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>ASPE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Assistant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">may</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">also</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">consolidate
existing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>reporting<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>into the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span>biennial<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">report</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ease</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.6pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">agency’s</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">administrative</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>burden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span>
6007. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorities</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">of </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">the
Centers</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(CMHS),</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Abuse Prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(CSAP),</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Abuse Treatment </span>(CSAT)<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Updates</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">statute
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">reflect</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">changes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">terminology</span>
as<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>well<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>as <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">increases</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">coordination</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">cooperation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">other</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">relevant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">agencies.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Director</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">CMHS</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">collaborate
with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>National <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Institute </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(NIMH)</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ensure</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">reflect</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>best<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>available<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> science </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">management.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 6008. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Advisory</span> Councils<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">current</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">law </span>regarding<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">advisory</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">councils</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for
SAMHSA,</span> CSAT, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">CSAP,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">CMHS</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Add</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Directors</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">NIMH,</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Institute
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Alcohol</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Abuse<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Alcoholism,</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 3.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Institute
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>Drug<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Abuse<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>as <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">ex</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">officio</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">members</span>
of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>applicable<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">advisory</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">councils;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">advisory</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">council</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">members</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> CMHS</span> have<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">medical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
degree,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">doctoral</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>degree<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">psychology,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">advanced</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">degree
in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>nursing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">social</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">work,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">specialize in</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health;</span>
and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">CSAP</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">CSAT </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: 3.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">medical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">degree,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">doctoral</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">degree,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">advanced</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">degree
in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">nursing,</span> public<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> health,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">behavioral</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">social</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">sciences,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">social</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">work,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">certified</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">physician</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assistant,</span>
and have<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>relevant <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">experience.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 6009.<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Peer
Review</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">least</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>half<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> members</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> peer</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">review</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">group</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>reviewing<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">cooperative</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">agreement,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
contract</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">medical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">degree,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>doctoral<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>degree<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">psychology,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: 2.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">advanced</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">degree in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>nursing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>social<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">work.</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">The</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">shall</span>
also <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ensure</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>to the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> extent</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>possible<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>that<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">peer review</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">groups</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>include<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">broad</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">geographic representation.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B—Oversight </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Accountability</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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6021. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Improving</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Oversight </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance
Use Disorders</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Programs</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Through</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">the
Assistant</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Planning</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Evaluation</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>role<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">responsibilities</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ASPE at</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Department</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Human</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(HHS)</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>planning<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">activities</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder programs.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ASPE</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recommendations</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
HHS,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Assistant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Use,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Congress</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>improving<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>ASPE, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>180 <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">days</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enactment</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Helping<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Families</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Crisis</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reform</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Act</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>2016, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">develop</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">strategy</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>conducting<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>ongoing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">key</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span>
across the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">agency.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 2.8pt;"> </span>The<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> evaluation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">shall</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>focus <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">on:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recovery</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">support</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> homelessness</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">incarceration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">among</span>
those<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>SUD;<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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performance</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">metrics</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluate </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">activities</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>those<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">receiving</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">relevant</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">contracts,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">cooperative</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">agreements.</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">The</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recommendations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ASPE</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">must</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.65pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">included</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">biennial</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">report</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">required</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Section</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">106.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 6022. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reporting</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Protection</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Advocacy</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Organizations</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Advocacy</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Organizations</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
detailed,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disaggregated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>accounting<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">where their </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">were</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">received.</span>
This<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">does</span> not<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">represent</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>new<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>reporting<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirement.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Government</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Accountability</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Office<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(GAO)</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>conduct<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">study</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">funded</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">under</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Title<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Protection</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Advocacy</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Illness</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Act.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">report</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>will<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">review
programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">carried</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">out</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span>
and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">private,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">non-profit</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">organizations,</span>
compliance<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">statutory</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">regulatory</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">responsibilities</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">relating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grievance procedure</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">clients,</span>
prospective<span style="letter-spacing: 4.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">clients</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">their
family</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">members,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">availability</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>adequate<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> medical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">behavioral</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">denial</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">rights</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Serious</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Illness</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Coordinating</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Committee</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.7pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 6031. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Inter-Departmental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Serious</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Illness</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Coordinating</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Committee</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>coordinating<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">committee </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluate</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>SMI<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and provide<span style="letter-spacing: 2.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recommendations</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">better</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>coordinate<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">people</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">SMI.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">committee </span>is<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">made</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">up</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> HHS,</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Centers</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Medicare<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medicaid</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(CMS),</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Department</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.8pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Justice<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
(DOJ),</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">VA,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">DOD,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HUD,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Department<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Education,
DOL, <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Social<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Security</span><span style="letter-spacing: 2.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Administration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(SSA),</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">as</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">well</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">as</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">patients,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">care</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">providers,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">researchers,</span> a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> judge,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> law</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">officer.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">committee will</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">make recommendations</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Congress</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for better coordination</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span>
for<span style="letter-spacing: 4.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">people</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>SMI<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>SED<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">will</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>convene<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">working</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">groups</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">relevant</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">issues.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">committee will</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">sunset</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">after</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">six</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Title VII—Ensuring</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">and Substance Use Disorder</span><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Prevention, Treatment,</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and</span></u><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: 2.75pt; text-decoration: none;"> </span><u><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Recovery</span><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">Programs</span> Keep<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Pace</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with
Science and Technology</span></span></u><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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7001. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Encouraging</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Innovation</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Evidence-Based</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Programs</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>National <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">Use</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Policy</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Laboratory</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(NMHSUPL) within</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SAMHSA
and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">moves</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">existing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">functions</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Office </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Policy,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Planning,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Innovation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(OPPI)</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">underneath.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">replicating,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">scaling</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">across</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">wider area.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$14<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
period</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2020<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">such</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Access</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Information</span> on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Evidence-Based</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Programs</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Practices</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Assistant<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve access</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span>
and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">communities,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">nonprofit</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">entities,</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">other</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">stakeholders.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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7003.<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Priority</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>Mental <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Needs</span>
of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Regional</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Significance</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Priority</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Needs</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Regional</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>Significance<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Program<span style="letter-spacing: 4.2pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">support</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevention,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">rehabilitation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">other</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">target</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">responses</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">needs.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">at</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$394,550,000<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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7004. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Use Disorder Treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Needs</span>
of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Regional</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Significance</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Priority</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Disorder Treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Needs <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Regional</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.8pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Significance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>quality and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">availability</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">rehabilitation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">targeted</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">areas.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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7005.<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Priority</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Use
Disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Prevention</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Needs</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Regional</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Significance</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Priority</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Needs</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Regional</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>Significance<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Program<span style="letter-spacing: 4.2pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">support</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">projects</span>
and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">other</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> programs</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">target</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">responses</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">needs.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$211,148,000<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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VIII—Supporting</span><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">State Prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Activities</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">Reponses</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health
and</span></span></u><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: 3.4pt; text-decoration: none;"> </span><u><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Substance </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Use</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> Disorder Needs</span></u><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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8001. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Community</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Block</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grant</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Gives</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">additional</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">flexibility</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Community<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(CMHS)
</span>block <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>funding<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: 4.9pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">adults</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>SMI<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">children</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>SED.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Updates</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">plan</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements</span>
to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">single state </span>agency<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">administer</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">establish</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">goals</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">objectives.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: 3.6pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Describe</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span>how<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> state</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">promotes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for SMI.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;">
</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: 3.6pt;"> </span>Ensure<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">will:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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efficiency,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">effectiveness,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">quality,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">cost-effectiveness</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: 3.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve outcomes.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">co-occurring</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">CMHS</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Block</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Grant<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>at the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$532,571,000<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-<span style="letter-spacing: 4.45pt;">
</span>2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 8002. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Abuse Prevention</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treatment Block</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grant</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Clarifies</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>state<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">will</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ensure
ongoing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>training<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">professionals</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recent</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">trends</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>drug<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>abuse<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">performance-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">accountability,</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">data collection</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">reporting</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Modifies</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>state<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> plan</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements</span> to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Include<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> description</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state’s</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">system</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
care;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Identify</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">single state </span>agency<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">administer</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">establish</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">goals</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">objectives;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">need</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
disorder prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services;</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.65pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: 3.6pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Describe</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>state<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">coordination</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">other agencies;</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: 3.6pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Describe</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span>how<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> state</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">promotes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>how<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> state integrates</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">primary</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.4pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">care;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>block
grant<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> last</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> $1,858,079,000</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">billion</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span>
2018-<span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;"> </span>2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span>
8003. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Additional</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Provisions</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Related</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">the</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Block</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grants</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Allows</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">submit</span> a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">joint</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">application</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>abuse<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>block
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants.</span> This<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>is a<span style="letter-spacing: 4.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">codification</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>existing<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practice.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Allows</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Assistant<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>waive<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">application</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">deadlines</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">compliance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>states <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 4.65pt;"> </span>case<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>public<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">emergency</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">declared</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> HHS</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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8004. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Study</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Distribution</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Funds</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">under the Substance Abuse Prevention</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treatment Block</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grant </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">the Community</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Block</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grant</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span>
of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HHS</span>
to study<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">whether </span>funding<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance
</span>abuse<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">block</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span> are<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>being<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">distributed</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">territories</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>according<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">need,</span>
and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recommend</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">changes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">if
necessary.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">report</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">submitted</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Congress</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">two</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enactment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">bill.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Title IX—Promoting</span><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Access</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health
and Substance </span>Use<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Disorder Care</span></span></u><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SUBTITLE</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">A—Helping</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Individuals</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Families</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Sec.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 9001. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grants</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Treatment </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Recovery</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Homeless</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Individuals</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">makes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">technical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">updates</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recovery</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for
homeless</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: 5.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">support</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>at the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$41,304,000<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9002. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grants</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Jail <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Diversion</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Programs</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">makes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">technical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">updates</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">develop</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">implement</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">divert</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: 5.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">from</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">criminal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">justice
system</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>at the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$4,269,000<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9003.<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Promoting</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Integration</span>
of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Primary</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Behavioral</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">Care</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">support</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">integrated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">models</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
primary</span> care<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">behavioral</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
services.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">applicants</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">submit</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>plan<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">integrated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">special</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">populations.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>at the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$51,878,000<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9004.<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Projects</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Assistance </span>in <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Transition</span> from<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Homelessness</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">makes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">updates</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> services</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">homeless</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>who<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">suffering</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">serious</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">co-occurring</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">serious</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">use</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Directs</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Administrator</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluate
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>formula<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">used</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">determine</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>funding<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allotments</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">report</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: 4.3pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Congress</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">two</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>at the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$64,635,000<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9005. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Suicide Prevention</span> Lifeline<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Program</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span>
to continue<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Suicide<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Lifeline</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">program,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">including:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Coordinating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
network</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">crisis</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">centers</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>suicide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">crisis</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>link<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">callers</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">emergency,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health,</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">social</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">resources;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Consulting</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Veterans<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Affairs</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ensure veterans</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>calling<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>suicide<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">hotline</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">access</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">specialized</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">veterans’</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>suicide<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">hotline.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>at the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$7,198,000<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fiscal <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9006. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Connecting</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Individuals</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Families</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>with <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Care</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">maintain</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>Treatment<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Referral</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>Routing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Service </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">help</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">families</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">locate</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">providers</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">through</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> nationwide</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">phone</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">system</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">internet</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">website.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 9007. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Strengthening</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Community</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Crisis</span>
Response<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Systems</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">award</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to state<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governments,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Indian</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">tribes,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">tribal</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">organizations</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">strengthen</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>crisis<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">response systems</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">develop,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">maintain,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>enhance<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">database </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>beds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>at <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">inpatient</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">psychiatric facilities,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">crisis</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">stabilization</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">units,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">residential</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">residential</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder
treatment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">facilities.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">An</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">entity</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">receiving</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>grant
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">must</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">submit</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>report<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>at the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary’s</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">request,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 3.9pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">effect</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">such</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>crisis<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">response</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">activities</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>receiving<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>crisis<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>planning<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">early</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">support,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>reporting<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improved</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outcomes,</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>receiving<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">regular</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">follow-up</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">care </span>following<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
crisis.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$12.5<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">period</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fiscal <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span>
2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 9008. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Garrett Lee</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Smith</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Memorial</span> Act<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Reauthorization</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Codifies</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>suicide<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">technical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assistance
center</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">training</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>suicide<span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevention,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">surveillance,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">strategies</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
all</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ages,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">particularly</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">among</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">groups</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">high</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">risk.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">at</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$5,988,000 <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fiscal
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.55pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Youth</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>Suicide<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Early <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Intervention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Strategies</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">tribes,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">clarifies</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span><span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">may</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">receive continuation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">after</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">first</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span>
is <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">awarded.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$30<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9009. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Adult Suicide Prevention</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Establishes</span>
suicide<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">aged</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">25</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">older.</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">The</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span> are<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>to raise<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">awareness</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> suicide,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">establish</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">referral</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">processes,</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outcomes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">such</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>who<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> at</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>risk
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">suicide.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$30<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
period</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9010. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> Health <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Awareness</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Training</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grants</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states,</span> political <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">subdivisions</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Indian</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">tribes,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">tribal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">organizations,</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">nonprofit</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>private<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> entities</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">train</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">teachers,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriate school</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">personnel,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">emergency</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">personnel,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">others,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriate,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recognize</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
signs</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">symptoms</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">become familiar </span>with<span style="letter-spacing: 4.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">resources</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>community<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illnesses,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>purpose<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>safe<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">de-</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">escalation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">crisis</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">situations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">involving</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">at</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$14,963,000 <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fiscal
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-<span style="letter-spacing: 3.95pt;"> </span>2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9011. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sense </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Congress</span>
on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prioritizing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">American</span> Indians and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Alaska</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Native
youth</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">suicide</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevention</span> program<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">States</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">it</span>
is the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Sense<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Congress</span> that<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HHS</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">should</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prioritize</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">activities</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">populations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disproportionately</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">high</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">rates</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">suicide,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">such</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">as</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">American</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Indians</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Alaska Natives.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9012. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Evidence-Based</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Practices</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Older Adults</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disseminate information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span>
provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> technical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>assistance<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">use</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>disorders<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">older adults.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9013. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Violent Death</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reporting</span> System<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Encourages</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Director</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Centers<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Disease</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Control<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(CDC) </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve,</span> particularly<span style="letter-spacing: 3.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">through</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">inclusion</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">other</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states,</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>existing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Violent</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Death</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reporting</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">System.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">reporting</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">system</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">created</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>2002<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">currently</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">collects</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">surveillance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">data</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">32</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">states.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9014. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Assisted</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Outpatient Treatment</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Increases</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">extends</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>existing<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">authorization</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Assisted</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Outpatient</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing: 3.5pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SAMHSA.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$15<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fiscal</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">year </span>2017,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>$20<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">year </span>2018,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>$19<span style="letter-spacing: 4.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fiscal <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2019<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">and</span> 2020, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span>
$18<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fiscal</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2021<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">and</span> 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9015. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Assertive Community</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treatment</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Establishes</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>program
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">establish,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">maintain,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
expand</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assertive</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>community<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">adults</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SMI.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">required</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>report<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">no</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">later</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">than</span>
2021<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">of;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">public health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outcomes;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Rate </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> involvement</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">criminal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>justice<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> system</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
patients;</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Rates</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> homelessness</span> among<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">patients.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">$5</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">period</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fiscal</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9016 <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sober Truth</span> on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Preventing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Underage Drinking</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorization</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Interagency</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Coordinating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Committee for </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">$1</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022,<span style="letter-spacing: 5.45pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>National<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Media
Campaign</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Prevent</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Underage Drinking</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">$1</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fiscal
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2018-2022, the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Community-
Based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Coalition</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Enhancement</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">$5</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fiscal</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;"> </span>2018-2022, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">funding</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">additional</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">research</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">underage</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>drinking<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">$3</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fiscal<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">also</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">make</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>under<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>this <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">section</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for practices</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>reduce<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">alcohol</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
among</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.4pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>under<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>age<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">21</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">through</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>screening<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">brief</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9017. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Center </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Program</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Repeals</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Repeals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">section</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>514<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Public<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Service Act</span> relating<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">methamphetamine</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">amphetamine</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.9pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">initiatives,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">section</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>506B<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Public<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Service</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>Act<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>relating<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ecstasy</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">other </span>club <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">drugs,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">eight</span><span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">other</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outdated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SUBTITLE</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B—Strengthening</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">the Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Care Workforce</span><span style="letter-spacing: 2.9pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 9021. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Behavioral</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Education</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Training</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grants</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">institutions</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
higher</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">education</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
accredited</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">professional</span> training<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: 4.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">support</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recruitment</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">education</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">providers.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Creates</span>
a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>priority <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">train</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">psychology,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">psychiatry,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">social</span>
work<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">professionals</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">work</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">integrated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
settings,</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for paraprofessionals</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">emphasize
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>role<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">family</span> and the<span style="letter-spacing: 4.9pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">lived</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">experience
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">consumer</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">family-paraprofessional</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">partnerships.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Administrator</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>to include<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>biennial<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>report<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assessment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> effectiveness</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">such</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">sums</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">may</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">necessary</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for </span>fiscal <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2017-2021.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>at the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$50<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9022. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Strengthening</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">the Mental</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Use Disorders</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Workforce</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">establish</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>training<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">demonstration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Resources</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Administration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(HRSA) </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">award</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">five-year</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">minimum</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">residents</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fellows</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>practice<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">psychiatry</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">addiction</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">medicine
in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">underserved,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">settings;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Nurse<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practitioners,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">physician</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assistants,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">service</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">psychologists,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">social</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">workers</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: 5.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">use</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">underserved</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">settings;</span>
and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Establishing,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">maintaining,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>improving<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">academic</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>training<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>to improve<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 3.0pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ability</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recognize,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">diagnose,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">treat</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>study<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">results</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">demonstration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">project.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$10<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for
fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 9023. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Clarification</span> on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Current Eligibility</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for </span>Loan <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Repayment</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Programs.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Directs</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Administrator</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HRSA </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>clarify the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">existing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">eligibility</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">child</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">adolescent</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">psychiatrists</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">National</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Service</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Corps<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(NHSC) </span>Loan<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Repayment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Program.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">This</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">section</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">does</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>not<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">expand</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">participation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>NHSC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 9024. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Minority</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Fellowship</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Program</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Codifies</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Minority<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Fellowship</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Program</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">increase
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">number</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> professionals</span> who<span style="letter-spacing: 4.4pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>substance<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">underserved,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">minority</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">populations,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 3.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">quality</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ethnic</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">minorities.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$12,669,000<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9025. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Liability</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Protections</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Professional</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Volunteers</span> at<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Community</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Centers</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Provides</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">medical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">liability</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">protections</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">volunteers</span> at<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">deemed</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Community</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Centers</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">through</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 5.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Federal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>Tort<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Claims</span> Act to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>remove<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>barriers<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">volunteering.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Attorney</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">General</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>report to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Congress</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>annually <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">estimate
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">claims</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">paid</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>during<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 3.4pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">year.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9026. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reports</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>issue<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>report
on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">national-</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state-level</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">projections</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">supply</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">demand</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">use</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">workers</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">trends</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder provider</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">workforce.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">study</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">peer-support</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">specialist</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span>
receiving<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: 4.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SAMHSA
and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">report</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Congress</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">on:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> formal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">work</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">volunteer</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">experience</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.7pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">conducted;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> peer</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">support</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">specialist</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">exams</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">codes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ethics</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">required</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>such <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs;</span>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Recommended</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">skill</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">sets</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for continuing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">education.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">SUBTITLE</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">C—Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span>
on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Campus</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Improvement</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 9031. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> Health and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Use Disorder Services</span> on Campus<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Mental
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Disorder Services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Campuses</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allows</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">education</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">students,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">families,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">faculty,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">staff </span>to
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">increase awareness</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">training</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: 4.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">respond</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">effectively</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">students</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">use</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders,</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outreach</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">administer</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">voluntary</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">screenings</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assessments</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">students,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to enhance<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>networks<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>providers<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span>who<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treat</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">direct</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Incorporates</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">consideration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>needs of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">veterans</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enrolled</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
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fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Provides</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>federal<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">leadership</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">establishing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">interagency</span>
working<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">group</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>discuss<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">behavioral</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>college<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
campuses</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>promote<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">agency</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">collaboration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">support</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">innovations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">supports</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">students</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>college<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">university</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">campuses.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">$1</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">period</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fiscal</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">carry</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">out</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">these activities.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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9033. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Behavioral</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Outreach</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Education</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">College Campuses</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Directs</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HHS</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">collaboration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">CDC</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>convene<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">interagency,</span>
public-private<span style="letter-spacing: 3.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">sector work</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">group</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">plan,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">establish,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">begin</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>coordinating<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> targeted,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">public-education</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">campaign</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">focus</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">behavioral</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>health<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">campuses</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">institutions</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>higher<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">education.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">$1</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">period</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fiscal</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>carry
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">out</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">these</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">activities.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Title X—Strengthening</span><span style="color: #1f4e79;"> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">Mental</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Substance Use Disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Care for </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">Women,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Children,</span></span></u><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: 3.85pt; text-decoration: none;"> </span><u><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">and Adolescents</span></u><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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10001.<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Programs</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Children</span>
with<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Serious</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Emotional</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Disturbances</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">updates</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">comprehensive</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>community <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">children</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.0pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>SED.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>at the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">$119,026,000</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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10002. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Increasing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Access</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Pediatric</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Care</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HRSA </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">award</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>promote<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">behavioral</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">integration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">pediatric
primary</span> care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Establishes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">eligibility</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">statewide </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> regional</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">pediatric</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">care
telehealth</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">order </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">receive grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">funding.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grantees</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">submit</span> a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> comprehensive</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> activities</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">carried</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">out</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">performance
and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outcome</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evaluation.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> state</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>receiving<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">match</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">at</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">least</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">20</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">percent</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>funds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">$9</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">period</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fiscal</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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10003. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Use Disorder Treatment </span>and
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Early</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Intervention</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span>
for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Children</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Adolescents</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">makes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">technical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">updates</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder treatment</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">early</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for
children</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">adolescents</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">early</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">identification</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>at the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">$29.6</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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10004. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Children’s</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Recovery</span> from<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Trauma</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>National<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Child</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Traumatic
Stress</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Initiative</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(NCTSI),</span> which<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">supports</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
national</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>network <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">child</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">trauma</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">centers,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">university,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">hospital,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">centers</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">affiliate</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">members.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Supports</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">coordinating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">center’s</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">collection,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">analysis,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">reporting</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
child</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outcome</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">other </span>data<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: 5.15pt;"> </span>inform
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatments</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services.</span>
Also <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">supports</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>continuum<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>training<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">initiatives</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: 2.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">such</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatments,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">interventions,</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">offered</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">providers.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Encourages</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">collaboration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">between</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>NCTSI<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>and
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HHS</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disseminate evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">trauma-informed</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">interventions,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatments,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">other
resources</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriate
stakeholders.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reauthorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>at the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">last</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$46.9<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fiscal <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-<span style="letter-spacing: 4.45pt;">
</span>2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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10005. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Screening</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treatment </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Maternal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Depression</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Establishes</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">establish,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">maintain</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">screening</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assessment</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> women</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>who<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>pregnant,
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>who<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">given</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">birth</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>preceding<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">12</span><span style="letter-spacing: 2.9pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">months,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">maternal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">depression.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Allows</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>prioritize<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> grants</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span> proposing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>enhance<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">access</span> to screening<span style="letter-spacing: 2.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">maternal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">depression</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">primary</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
settings.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Activities</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">supported</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">should</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>include<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>providing<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriate
</span>training<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">care</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">providers,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">care</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">providers</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">maternal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">depression</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">screening,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment,</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">follow-up</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">support</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services,</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">linkages</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">resources.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">$5</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2017-2021.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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10006. Infant<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> and</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Early</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Childhood</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Promotion,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Intervention,</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treatment</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Establishes</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">develop,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">maintain,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>enhance<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevention,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>infants<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">children</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>at <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">significant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">risk</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> developing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">showing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">early</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">signs</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>SED, <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>social
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">emotional</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disability.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Secretary<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>will <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ensure
that</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span> receiving <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span>
are<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> replicable</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">utilize
evidence-informed</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">models,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">methods.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> state</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>receiving<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">match</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">at</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">least</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">10</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">percent</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>funds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span>
$20<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">period</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Communication</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">on</span><span style="color: #1f4e79; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> HIPAA</span></u><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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11001. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sense </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Congress</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Sense<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Congress</span> finds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">clarification</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">needed</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>regarding
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">existing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">permitted</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>uses and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disclosures</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.8pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">under</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Portability</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Accountability</span> Act<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(HIPAA) </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">care</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">professionals</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">communicate</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">caregivers</span>
of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> adults</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>SMI<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>facilitate<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> treatment.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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11002. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Confidentiality</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Records</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span>
to, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> year</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>finalizing<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">updated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">rules</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">confidentiality</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> health</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">records</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">alcohol</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> drug<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">abuse,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>convene<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
relevant</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">stakeholders</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">determine </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">effect</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">regulation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">patient</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>care, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outcomes,</span>
and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">patient</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">privacy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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11003. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Clarification</span> on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Permitted</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Uses</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Disclosures</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Protected</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Information</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Directs</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">through</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Director</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Office for </span>Civil<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>rights
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">clarify</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">circumstances</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">when</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: 4.9pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">provider</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> covered</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">entity</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">may</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disclosure</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">protected</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to the<span style="letter-spacing: 4.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>adult<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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11004. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Development </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Dissemination</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Model</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Training</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Programs</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">identify</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recognize</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>private<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>public<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">entities</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">develop</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">model</span> training<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">educational</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">educate</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">care</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">providers,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">regulatory</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>compliance<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">staff,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">others</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">regarding</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 5.4pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">permitted</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">use</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and disclosure<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">under HIPAA.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>$10<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">period</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> fiscal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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12001. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Rule </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Construction</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Related</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medicaid</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Coverage
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Primary</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Care Services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Furnished</span> on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">the Same Day</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Clarifies</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>nothing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medicaid</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">statute should</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">construed</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">as</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>prohibiting<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">separate</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">payment</span>
for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 4.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">provision</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>health<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">primary</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">provided</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individual</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">same</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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12002. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Study</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Report
Related</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medicaid</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Managed</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Care Regulation</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>acting<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">through</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Administrator</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>CMS to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>conduct<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>study<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">report</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 3.6pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">provision</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>to
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">adults</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">aged</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">21</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">65</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">enrolled</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medicaid</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">managed</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>plans<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">receiving</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: 4.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Institution</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Diseases</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(IMD).</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">The</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">report</span> is<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">due</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>three<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">must</span> include<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">number</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>receiving<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span> in<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">IMDs,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">their
lengths</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">stay,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.4pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">how Medicaid</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">managed</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>plans<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">determine
when</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">IMD</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">lieu</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">other</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.0pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">benefits,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">such</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">as</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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12003 <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Guidance </span>on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Opportunities</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Innovation</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Administrator</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>CMS to issue<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">State Medicaid</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Director</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">letter,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>one<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">year</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enactment,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">opportunities</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">design</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">innovative </span>service<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">delivery</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">systems</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>improve<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> for individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>serious<span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">serious</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">emotional</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disturbance.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 12004. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Study</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Report </span>on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medicaid</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Emergency</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Psychiatric
Demonstration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Project</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary,</span>
acting<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">through</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Administrator</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>CMS to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">collect,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">analyze,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">report</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">data </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">states</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">participated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medicaid</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Emergency</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Psychiatric</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Demonstration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Project</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">establish</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>under<span style="letter-spacing: 3.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Section</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>2707<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Affordable<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Care<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Act.</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">The</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">report</span>
is<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">due</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">no</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">later</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">than</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">two</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">years</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">after</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enactment.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">EPSDT</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Children</span> in <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">IMDS</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">effective</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>January<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">1,</span> 2019, <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">children</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">receiving</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medicaid-covered</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">inpatient</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">psychiatric
hospital</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">are</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>also
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">eligible</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">full</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">range
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">early</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">periodic</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">screening,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">diagnostic,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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12006. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Electronic</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Visit
Verification</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">System Required</span>
for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Personal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Care Services</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Home
Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Care Services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Under</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medicaid</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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to require<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">use</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">electronic</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">visit</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">verification</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">system</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Medicaid-provided</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">personal</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">care
services</span> and home<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> (but<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">this</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>policy<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">does</span> not<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>require<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">States</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>adopt a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">single</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>system<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">providers</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">their State).</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">States</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">do</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>not<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>require<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">system</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for personal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>care<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>January<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">1,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.25pt;"> </span>2019, <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">and</span>
home<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>January<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">1,</span> 2023, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">will</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>face<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">modest,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">incremental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">reduction</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">percentage.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">This</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>policy <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">offsets</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>cost <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Sec.</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">705.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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13001. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Enhanced</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Compliance </span>with <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Use Disorder </span>Coverage<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requirements</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Departments</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>HHS, <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Labor,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treasury</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">release</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>compliance<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>guidance<span style="letter-spacing: 3.4pt;"> </span>providing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illustrative
examples</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>past
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">findings</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">compliance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and noncompliance<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">existing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>parity<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disclosure</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">non-quantitative</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">limitations.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HHS</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">seek</span> public<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> comment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>ways<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve
consumer </span>access to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">documents</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>about<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
disorder benefits</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">which</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">required</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">law</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disclosed.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HHS</span> to issue<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">new</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">guidance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">documents</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>assist<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>plans<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">comply</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">existing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">parity</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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comment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">period</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">no</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">less</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">than</span>
60 <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">days</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>before<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>being<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">finalized.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Clarifies</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretaries’</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HHS,</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Labor,</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treasury</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">authority</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>audit<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">plan</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>case<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">such</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">plan</span> has<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">been</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>found<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> violated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span>existing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>parity<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>laws<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>5<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">times.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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13002. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Action</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Plan</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Enhanced</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Enforcement </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span>
and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Use Disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Coverage</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HHS</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">convene </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>public<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">meeting</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">six</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">months</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enactment</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>produce<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">action</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">plan</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improved</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state coordination</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
enforcement</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">parity</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">addiction</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">equity</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>into<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">consideration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recommendations</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">President’s</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>Use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Parity</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>Task<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Force<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Final <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Report</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">released</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">October</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">2016.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">objectives</span> regarding<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">how</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">various</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">agencies</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">charged</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement</span>
of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">parity</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">addiction</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">equity</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">will</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">collaborate
</span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">improve</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement;</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">timeline</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> when</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">such</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">objectives</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">shall</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">met;</span>
and provide<span style="letter-spacing: 4.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">specific</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">examples</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> how</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">such</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">objectives</span><span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">may</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">met.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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13003. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Report </span>on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Investigations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Regarding</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Parity</span> in <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span>
and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Use Disorder</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.5pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Benefits</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Administrator</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Centers</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for Medicare</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>& <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Medicaid</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>conduct<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">annual</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">report</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.6pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">five years</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">summarizing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">results</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>all<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">closed</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">investigations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">completed</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>during<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>preceding<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">year</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">findings</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>any <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">serious</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">violation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>regarding<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>compliance<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">exiting</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>parity<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 13004. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">GAO</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">study</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Parity</span>
in <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> Health and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Use Disorders</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Benefits</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">GAO,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">within</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>three<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> years</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enactment,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>conduct<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>study<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>existing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>parity<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements;</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>compliance<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">non-quantitative
treatment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">limitations,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assessment</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>how<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">has</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">used</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>its<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">authority</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>conduct<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">audits,</span> a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">review</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>how<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">various</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span>
and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">agencies</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">responsible</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcing</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">parity</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> improved</span><span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>line<span style="letter-spacing: 4.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">stated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">objectives</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outlined</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">action</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">plan</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">under
Sec.</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">605,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recommendations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">additional</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">education,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">coordination</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">activities</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">legal</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">authorities</span>
could <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">better</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ensure</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>compliance<span style="letter-spacing: 4.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">existing</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">parity</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 13005. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Awareness</span> on <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Eating</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Disorders</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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lists</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">fact</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">sheets</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">related</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">eating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">increase</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>public<span style="letter-spacing: 4.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">awareness,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">through</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">existing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">activities,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">signs</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">symptoms</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">eating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: 4.6pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">eating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 13006. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Education</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Training</span> on<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Eating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Disorders</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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and<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">materials</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">educating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">training</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">professionals</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">effective strategies</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">identify</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">eating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders,</span>
provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> early</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">refer</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">patients</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriate</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 13007. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Clarification</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Existing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Parity</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Rules</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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benefits,</span> including<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">residential</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment,</span> under<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">existing</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>parity<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">requirements.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><span style="color: #1f4e79;">TITLE<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> XIV</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>–
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">MENTAL</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">HEALTH </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">AND</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">SAFE</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">COMMUNITIES</span></span></u><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Safe Communities</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Sec.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
14001. Law<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Enforcement</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grants</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Crisis</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Intervention</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Teams,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Purposes</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Byrne<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Justice<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Assistance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Grant<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(JAG) </span>Program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow law</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 4.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">creation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">response</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">corrections</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">including</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>police<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>crisis <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">teams.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Also</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allows</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governments</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">Byrne</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>JAG<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">order</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>comply<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">current</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">laws</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.6pt;"> </span>requiring<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">upload</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">certain</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">records</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span>National <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Instant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Criminal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Background</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Check</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">System</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(NICS).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Community</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Oriented</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>Policing<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(COPS) </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">law</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: 4.2pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">specialized</span><span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">response
training,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>crisis<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">de-escalation.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Fire<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Prevention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Control</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Act to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>existing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">used</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>training<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>first<span style="letter-spacing: 2.7pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">responders</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">paramedics</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">best</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>responding<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">emergencies,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">crisis</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">de-escalation.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14002. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Assisted</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Outpatient Treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Programs</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">used</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">creation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
court-ordered</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outpatient</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevent</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> escalation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">crises.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14003.<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Federal</span> Drug and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Courts</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Attorney</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">General</span>
and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">the</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Director</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Administrative
</span>Office<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
United</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">States</span> Courts to<span style="letter-spacing: 4.4pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">create</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">Drug</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Court</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>pilot<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">at</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">least</span> one<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Federal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Judicial<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">District.</span> As<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>part <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing: 3.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">program,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">low-level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">offenders</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>who<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mentally</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ill</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">addicted</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>narcotics <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">would</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
eligible for diversion</span><span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prison</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>so long<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">as</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">they</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">comply</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intensive
court-mandated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">program.</span> A<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">large</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">number</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: 3.9pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governments</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">operate similar
problem-solving</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">court</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">America’s</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Law<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Enforcement</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Project</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Act to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governments</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">use</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">creation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">deployment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> behavioral</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>health<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">risk</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">needs</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assessments</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mentally</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>ill <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">criminal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>justice<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">system.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Assertive Community</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treatment
Initiatives</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mentally</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">Ill</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Offender
Treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Crime</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reduction</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">(MIOTCRA) </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">local</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governments</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">use</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
existing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">authorized</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
operation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Forensic</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Assertive</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Community<span style="letter-spacing: 3.9pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>(FACT)<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Initiatives.</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">FACT</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Initiatives</span> provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">high-intensity</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span>
for<span style="letter-spacing: 4.0pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>who<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> involved</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">criminal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>justice<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
system.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14006. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Assistance </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Individuals</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Transitioning</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Out </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">Systems</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Second</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Chance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Act to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governments</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
reentry</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">demonstration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">project</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">provision</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">transitional</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> (including<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">housing)</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mentally</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ill</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">offenders</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>who<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>re-entering<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">community.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14007. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Co-occurring</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Abuse </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Challenges</span>
in <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Drug</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Courts</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">Drug</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Court</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Grant<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governments</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">use</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">their</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>existing<span style="letter-spacing: 3.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>include<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">targeted</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">interventions</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>who<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">both</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.05pt;">
</span>abuse<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorder.</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Also</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allows</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">used</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>training<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>drug<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>court <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">professionals</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">identify</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.0pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">respond</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>these<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">co-occurring</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> appropriate cabinet-level</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Secretary</span> to provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">crisis</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">response
</span>training<span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">members</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">each</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Federal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Uniformed</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Services.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 14009. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Advancing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> as <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Part </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">of
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Offender Reentry</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Second</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Chance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Act to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governments</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
reentry</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">demonstration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">project</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">under</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>purpose<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>providing <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">coordinate</span><span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">transitional</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">re-entering</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">society</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>abuse<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">problems,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">or</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: 5.65pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">chronic homelessness.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 14010. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">School</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Crisis</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Intervention</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Teams</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Department</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>Justice<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Secure<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Our<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Schools</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>state<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governments</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: 3.75pt;"> </span>existing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">develop</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">operate school-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">crisis</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intervention</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">teams</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span>
include<span style="letter-spacing: 4.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">coordination</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">law</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">agencies</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">specialized</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>training<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">school</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">officials.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span>
14011. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Active-shooter Training</span> for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Law<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
Enforcement</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Permanently</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">authorizes</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> existing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Department</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Justice VALOR</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Initiative,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">which</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">provides</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">crisis</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.9pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">response </span>training<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">active-shooter</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>training<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> federal,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">law</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">officials.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span>
14012. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Co-occurring</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance Abuse </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Challenges</span>
in <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Residential</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Abuse Treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Programs</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Residential</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Abuse<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treatment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow
state </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governments</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: 5.0pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>purpose<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>developing<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">implementing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">specialized</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">residential</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>abuse<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.7pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">treatment</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">co-occurring</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance </span>abuse<span style="letter-spacing: 4.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14013. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> Health and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Drug</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treatment
Alternatives</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Incarceration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Programs</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>existing<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Prosecution</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>Drug<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Treatment</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Alternatives</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Incarceration</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Program</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">statute
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governments</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">under
</span>this<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>creating<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">operating</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span> that<span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">divert</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">co-occurring</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">disorders</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>prisons<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">jails</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>pursuant<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span> a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">court-</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.95pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">supervised</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">intensive
treatment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">program.</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Current</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">law only</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allows</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">under</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>used<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.95pt;"> </span>addressing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">substance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>abuse<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
issues.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Justice </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Training</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Technical</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Assistance</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Amends</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>MIOTCRA<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
to</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allow</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Attorney</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">General</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>existing<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">authorized</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">funds</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">award</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grants</span> to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>non-<span style="letter-spacing: 3.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">profit</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">organizations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">creation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>National <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Criminal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Justice<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>Training<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Center.</span>
This<span style="letter-spacing: 3.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">entity</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">would</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">coordinate best</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">responding</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
criminal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>justice<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> system,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">would</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>provide<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">technical</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assistance </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">governmental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">agencies</span> who<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">wish</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">implement</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">these</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>best <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 14015. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Improving</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Department </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Justice Data</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Collection</span> on Mental <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Illness</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Involved</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Crime</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Attorney</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">General</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">collect</span>
and disseminate<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">data </span>regarding<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> involvement</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">all</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">homicides,</span> as <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">well</span> as <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">deaths</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">serious</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>bodily<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">injuries</span> involving<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">law</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">officers.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 14016. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Reports</span> on the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Number </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mentally</span> Ill <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Offenders</span> in <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Prison</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Comptroller</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">General</span>
of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">United</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>States to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">submit</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>report
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Congress</span> detailing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 2.5pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">state,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">local</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>costs
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">imprisonment</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">serious</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">number
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">types</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">crimes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">committed</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mentally</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ill</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14017. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Department</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Veterans</span> Affairs <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Patients’ Rights</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enjoy</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">due</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">process</span>
protections<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">before</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>being<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">adjudicated</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>as <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mentally</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>ill<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Veterans</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Administration</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">MIOTCRA at</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>previously<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">authorized</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>(but <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">expired)</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">level</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>$50<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">million/yr.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Justice </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Mental</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Health</span><span style="letter-spacing: 2.65pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sec.</span> 14021. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sequential</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Intercept</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Model</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Sequential</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Intercept</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Model</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>which<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">outlines</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">sequential</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>points <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">at</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>which<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> person</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">can</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> be</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">“intercepted”
and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">kept</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">going</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">further</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">into</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">criminal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>justice<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
system.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14022.<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Prison</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Jails<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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funding<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> prison</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">jail-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>including<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">transitional</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">re-entry</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>programs <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span>reduce<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">likelihood</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>recidivism<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">when</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mentally-ill</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">offender</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">released.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14023. Allowable<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Uses</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Expands</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">allowable</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">resources</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enhance</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">capabilities</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">law</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">enforcement,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">corrections,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">personnel</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">better</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">identify</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">respond</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illnesses</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">who</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">consume</span><span style="letter-spacing: 5.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
disproportionate</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>quantity <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>crisis
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">services.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14024. Law<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Enforcement Training</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authorizes</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">resources</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">expanded</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">training</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">activities,</span>
providing <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">more officers</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> basic
</span>understanding<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">issues</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">involved</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">when</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">responding</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">situations</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">crises.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14025.<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Federal</span> Law<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Enforcement Training</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Attorney</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">General</span>
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>create<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">programs</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">offer</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>first<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>responders<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">tactical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">units</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">comprehensive </span>training<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>in <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">procedures</span>
to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">identify</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">respond</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriately</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">incidents</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">involving</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mentally</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">ill</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14026. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">GAO</span> Report<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>GAO<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> report</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>detailing<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">federal</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>first<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">responders,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">tactical</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">units,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">corrections</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">officers</span> are<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> trained</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">responding</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">individuals</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">with</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">mental</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">illness,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">procedures</span> to <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">appropriately</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.55pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">respond</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">to</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">incidents,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
application</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">criminal</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">justice settings,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recommendations</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">how </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Department</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Justice<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">can</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>improve<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">information</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">sharing</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">dissemination</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: 3.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">best</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">practices.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14027. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Evidence Based</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Practices</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Requires</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">DOJ</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prioritize grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">applications</span> to those<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>who<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>use<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> evidence-based</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">interventions</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">risk</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">assessment</span> tools to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>reduce<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> recidivism.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14028. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Transparency,</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Program Accountability</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Enhancing</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Local</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Authority</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Clarifies</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">that</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">offender</span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">may</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>participate<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>MIOTCRA<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">only</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>if<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">offender</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>is <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">selected</span><span style="letter-spacing: 2.75pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">unanimously</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">for
participation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>program<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>prosecuting<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">attorney,</span> the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>defense<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">attorney,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">judge,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> mental</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">health</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">agency</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">representative,</span> and<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">probation</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">officer.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14029. <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Grant Accountability</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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the<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> Inspector General</span> of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Department</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Justice<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>to conduct<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>annual<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">audits</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">all</span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grant</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">recipients</span><span style="letter-spacing: 4.6pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">under </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">bill’s</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>provisions to<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">prevent</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">waste,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>fraud,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">and</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>abuse<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>funds<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">by</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">grantees.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-87297330097974412802016-11-25T19:51:00.008-05:002016-11-26T10:23:55.886-05:00Senate agrees to pass lame duck mental health reform bill <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">(11/25/16) Today, a healthcare reform package, including language from Congressman Tim Murphy’s (PA-18) and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnsons (D. TX) Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (<a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=ae4cb4e082&e=7b518eccbb"><span class="s2">H.R. 2646</span></a>) and Chairman Fred Upton’s 21st Century Cures Act (<a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=1f8e8ae224&e=7b518eccbb"><span class="s2">H.R. 6</span></a>), was finalized. The reform package will be voted on in the Senate when they return after Thanksgiving and will then have to be reconciled with what the House passed, presumably a fait acompli. I believe it also includes language from Sen. John Cornyn's <span class="s2"><a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=04e52d2859&e=7b518eccbb">S2002.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>A description of bill is <a href="https://rules.house.gov/sites/republicans.rules.house.gov/files/114/PDF/114-SAHR34-Sxs.pdf">here</a> Some of the more interesting stuff starts on page 18 and 29</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>A copy of the bill is <a href="http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20161128/CPRT-114-HPRT-RU00-SAHR34.pdf">here</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1"><a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=04e52d2859&e=7b518eccbb"><span class="s2"><br /></span></a></span><span class="s1"><b>T</b>here is AOT funding and reform of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the bill. Here are the p<a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/federalmentalillnesslegislation/guide2fedlegislation.html">rovisions we were most interested in</a> having included. Some were, others were not.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1"><br /></span><span class="s1">Congressman Murphy has been the true hero of this process leaving his door open to, and never abandoning those of us who have seriously mentally ill relatives. He released the following statement:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1">“This is a landmark moment. The federal government’s course in addressing mental health and illness in America is being fundamentally changed. Congress has finally come together in a bipartisan effort to bring serious mental illness out of the shadows. <b>Now federal agencies will be moving from feel-good programs for behavioral wellness to ones that emphasize evidence-based care for those at highest risk and those with symptoms of serious mental illness</b>. We've achieved long-sought reforms by creating an Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use to elevate, integrate and coordinate programs; investing in services for the most difficult to treat cases; expanding the mental health workforce, and so much more.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1">“It couldn't be more fitting that we've reached this bipartisan agreement between the House and Senate at the close of Thanksgiving week. I am tremendously grateful for everyone who joined in the cause because we wouldn't be here if not for the unwavering efforts of the of the families, caregivers, providers and organizations that worked tirelessly to fix our broken mental health system<b>. </b>We won't solve it all in in one bill and we didn't get everything we needed<b>,</b> but we needed everything we got. It is my pledge to the patients and families in crisis that I will never stop fighting to deliver treatment before tragedy for those most in need.” </span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><br /></span><span class="s1">The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act unanimously passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee, 53-0, in June and passed the U.S. House of Representatives, 422-2, in July More information on the bill can be found <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=e1e6080155&e=7b518eccbb"><span class="s2">here</span></a>.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><i>Mental Illness Policy Org thanks the thousands of families of the seriously ill who joined with us to educate Congress that the needs of the seriously ill are different than those of the higher functioning, and that those needs have largely been ignored by government. By focusing SAMHSA on the seriously ill, funding Assisted Outpatient Treatment and looking for ways to free families of the seriously ill from HIPAA Handcuffs that prevent them from facilitating treatment, we believe the lives of all Americans--those with serious mental illness and those without--will be better served. </i>- DJ Jaffe, Executive Director, Mental Illness Policy Org.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>A copy of the bill is <a href="http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20161128/CPRT-114-HPRT-RU00-SAHR34.pdf">here</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1"><a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=04e52d2859&e=7b518eccbb"><span class="s2"><br /></span></a></span><span class="s1"><b>T</b>here is AOT funding and reform of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the bill. Here are the p<a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/federalmentalillnesslegislation/guide2fedlegislation.html">rovisions we were most interested in</a> having included. Some were, others were not.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1"><br /></span><span class="s1">Congressman Murphy has been the true hero of this process leaving his door open to, and never abandoning those of us who have seriously mentally ill relatives. He released the following statement:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1">“This is a landmark moment. The federal government’s course in addressing mental health and illness in America is being fundamentally changed. Congress has finally come together in a bipartisan effort to bring serious mental illness out of the shadows. <b>Now federal agencies will be moving from feel-good programs for behavioral wellness to ones that emphasize evidence-based care for those at highest risk and those with symptoms of serious mental illness</b>. We've achieved long-sought reforms by creating an Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use to elevate, integrate and coordinate programs; investing in services for the most difficult to treat cases; expanding the mental health workforce, and so much more.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1">“It couldn't be more fitting that we've reached this bipartisan agreement between the House and Senate at the close of Thanksgiving week. I am tremendously grateful for everyone who joined in the cause because we wouldn't be here if not for the unwavering efforts of the of the families, caregivers, providers and organizations that worked tirelessly to fix our broken mental health system<b>. </b>We won't solve it all in in one bill and we didn't get everything we needed<b>,</b> but we needed everything we got. It is my pledge to the patients and families in crisis that I will never stop fighting to deliver treatment before tragedy for those most in need.” </span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><br /></span><span class="s1">The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act unanimously passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee, 53-0, in June and passed the U.S. House of Representatives, 422-2, in July More information on the bill can be found <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=e1e6080155&e=7b518eccbb"><span class="s2">here</span></a>.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><i>Mental Illness Policy Org thanks the thousands of families of the seriously ill who joined with us to educate Congress that the needs of the seriously ill are different than those of the higher functioning, and that those needs have largely been ignored by government. By focusing SAMHSA on the seriously ill, funding Assisted Outpatient Treatment and looking for ways to free families of the seriously ill from HIPAA Handcuffs that prevent them from facilitating treatment, we believe the lives of all Americans--those with serious mental illness and those without--will be better served. </i>- DJ Jaffe, Executive Director, Mental Illness Policy Org.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b>A copy of the bill is <a href="http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20161128/CPRT-114-HPRT-RU00-SAHR34.pdf">here</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1"><a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=04e52d2859&e=7b518eccbb"><span class="s2"><br /></span></a></span><span class="s1"><b>T</b>here is AOT funding and reform of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the bill. Here are the p<a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/federalmentalillnesslegislation/guide2fedlegislation.html">rovisions we were most interested in</a> having included. Some were, others were not.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1"><br /></span><span class="s1">Congressman Murphy has been the true hero of this process leaving his door open to, and never abandoning those of us who have seriously mentally ill relatives. He released the following statement:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1">“This is a landmark moment. The federal government’s course in addressing mental health and illness in America is being fundamentally changed. Congress has finally come together in a bipartisan effort to bring serious mental illness out of the shadows. <b>Now federal agencies will be moving from feel-good programs for behavioral wellness to ones that emphasize evidence-based care for those at highest risk and those with symptoms of serious mental illness</b>. We've achieved long-sought reforms by creating an Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use to elevate, integrate and coordinate programs; investing in services for the most difficult to treat cases; expanding the mental health workforce, and so much more.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1">“It couldn't be more fitting that we've reached this bipartisan agreement between the House and Senate at the close of Thanksgiving week. I am tremendously grateful for everyone who joined in the cause because we wouldn't be here if not for the unwavering efforts of the of the families, caregivers, providers and organizations that worked tirelessly to fix our broken mental health system<b>. </b>We won't solve it all in in one bill and we didn't get everything we needed<b>,</b> but we needed everything we got. It is my pledge to the patients and families in crisis that I will never stop fighting to deliver treatment before tragedy for those most in need.” </span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><br /></span><span class="s1">The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act unanimously passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee, 53-0, in June and passed the U.S. House of Representatives, 422-2, in July More information on the bill can be found <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=e1e6080155&e=7b518eccbb"><span class="s2">here</span></a>.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><i>Mental Illness Policy Org thanks the thousands of families of the seriously ill who joined with us to educate Congress that the needs of the seriously ill are different than those of the higher functioning, and that those needs have largely been ignored by government. By focusing SAMHSA on the seriously ill, funding Assisted Outpatient Treatment and looking for ways to free families of the seriously ill from HIPAA Handcuffs that prevent them from facilitating treatment, we believe the lives of all Americans--those with serious mental illness and those without--will be better served. </i>- DJ Jaffe, Executive Director, Mental Illness Policy Org.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="s1">(Full disclosure: I am a left-wing Democrat.) </span><br />
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<span class="s1">Here are two snippets from Trump's policy platform on serious mental illness</span></div>
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<span class="s2"><b>From Trump Healthcare page:</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">"Finally, we need to reform our mental health programs and institutions in this country. Families, without the ability to get the information needed to help those who are ailing, are too often not given the tools to help their loved ones. There are promising reforms being developed in Congress that should receive bi-partisan support. <a href="https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/HCReformPaper.pdf"><span class="s3">https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/HCReformPaper.pdf</span></a></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><b>From Trump 2nd Amendment page:</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">"Fix our broken mental health system. All of the tragic mass murders that occurred in the past several years have something in common – there were red flags that were ignored. We can’t allow that to continue. We must expand treatment programs, and reform the laws to make it easier to take preventive action to save innocent lives. Most people with mental health problems are not violent, but just need help, and these reforms will help everyone. <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/constitution-and-second-amendment"><span class="s3">https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/constitution-and-second-amendment</span></a></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Democrats</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">My experience is that Dems are willing to throw money at improving mental health in the 18% of adults who may have some form of illness (anxiety, ADHD, mild depression, etc.) but they won't admit to the unpleasant truths that need to be recognized to help the 4% of adults with serious mental illness. Dems will not admit that not everyone recovers, that when t<i>he most seriously ill go untreated</i> they <i><u>are</u></i> more violent than others, that some people do need hospitals, that involuntary treatment is better than incarceration, etc. </span><br />
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<span class="s1">If they won't admit the problems, they will not solve them. They are also unduly influenced by the mental health industry, much of which wants to continue to receive mental health funds, free of any obligation to help the seriously ill. As an example, the mental health industry is cheering the new Obama-appointed federal Mental Health Parity Task Force Report, in spite of the fact that it <span class="s2"><a href="http://mentalillnesspolicyorg.blogspot.com/2016/10/white-house-parity-task-force-report.html">left out the most seriously ill</a></span>. I have previously written on <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417522/hillarys-mental-illness-mistake-d-j-jaffe">Hillary Clinton's failure</a> to focus on the seriously mentally ill. And today, election day, the NY Daily News gave big play to <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-mental-health-plan-failed-stop-fatal-subway-push-article-1.2864815">my op-ed </a>on the failure of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to focus the $850 million NYC mental health plan on the seriously ill. Again: this is from a Dem.<br />
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<span class="s1">On the other hand, Republicans are concerned about the effect of homelessness and untreated serious mental illness on quality of life, the spiraling cost of funding pop-psychology and politically-correct pablum <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=4b5597c083&e=18b2661285"><span class="s2">(MHFA</span></a>, <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=11eb4d0782&e=18b2661285"><span class="s2">stigma</span></a> etc.) and disturbed by the growing jail populations. So while they are tight-fisted and may be less willing to fund the worthy, but tangential social services that often are wrapped in a mental health narrative, I have found they are willing to fund evidence based interventions that really do prevent homelessness, arrest and incarceration of the most seriously ill. Even if one argues Republicans have (what to some are) impure motives for supporting mental illness reform (i.e., to stave off calls for gun control), that still gets them focused on improving mental illness treatment. From our pers<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">pective, that is a good thing.<br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Trump</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1">So from a mental illness policy perspective, if Trump sticks to what has become Republican orthodoxy (a big 'if', i.e, focus on the most seriously ill), then perhaps things will get better. For example, he could start by "Draining the Swamp" at SAMHSA/CMHS, which is funding so much anti-psychiatry and anti-science that passes as "recovery" or "trauma" treatment these days. <br /><br />One idea for Trump would be to appoint this person as SAMHSA Administrator. She was the former Medical Director of SAMHSA, and wrote this <a href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/depression/federal-government-ignores-treatment-needs-americans-serious-mental-illness/page/0/1">devastating critique</a> on </span>SAMHSA/CMHS when she left.<span style="color: #2baadf;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(43, 170, 223);"> </span></span>Reforming SAMHSA and CMHS is more likely to happen under Republicans, than Dems (assuming again that Trump is a Republican). Of course, he has also promised to dismantle the Affordable Care Act which would hurt persons with mental illness as it hurts all others. And it is hard to pin him down on specifics. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Effect on Mental Illness Legislation in Senate</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Senate will come back to work for just a few short weeks before the new administration takes over. They do have mental health reform on their calendar, but it is questionable as to whether there is actually enough time in the short session to get around to it, and if they do get around to it, will it be the weak bills they are currently considering or something stronger. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1">We should try to get the Senate to take up and pass the </span><a href="http://www.peteearley.com/2016/07/01/the-good-bad-and-the-useless-an-analysis-of-the-helping-families-in-mental-health-crisis-act/">The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act</a> (HR2646) during this short lame duck session. It passed House in uniquely bipartisan 422-2 vote. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It will start to get the federal mental health agencies to focus more on the seriously ill, help create more hospital beds, fund programs like Kendra's Law and focus on programs that have evidence of efficacy.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mental Illness legislation should not have to wait until a new administration takes office.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Call your two U.S. Senators at (202) </b><b>224-3121 and urge him/her to bring the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (HR2646) to a vote in Senate as soon as Senate returns to work. Mental Health reform should not be put on hold until the new administration takes over. The call takes two minutes</b></span><br />
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Thanks for all you do. Reminder. My book,<i> Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Seriously Ill</i> is a valuable advocacy tool that can be pre-ordered on <span class="s2"><a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=d183ba178e&e=18b2661285">Barnes & Nobl</a>e</span> and <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=081c643011&e=18b2661285"><span class="s2">Amazon</span></a>. Follow Mental Illness Policy Org on Facebook and Twitter.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">"Finally, we need to reform our mental health programs and institutions in this country. Families, without the ability to get the information needed to help those who are ailing, are too often not given the tools to help their loved ones. There are promising reforms being developed in Congress that should receive bi-partisan support. <a href="https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/HCReformPaper.pdf"><span class="s3">https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/HCReformPaper.pdf</span></a></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><b>From Trump 2nd Amendment page:</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">"Fix our broken mental health system. All of the tragic mass murders that occurred in the past several years have something in common – there were red flags that were ignored. We can’t allow that to continue. We must expand treatment programs, and reform the laws to make it easier to take preventive action to save innocent lives. Most people with mental health problems are not violent, but just need help, and these reforms will help everyone. <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/constitution-and-second-amendment"><span class="s3">https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/constitution-and-second-amendment</span></a></span></div>
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<span class="s1">My experience is that Dems are willing to throw money at improving mental health in the 18% of adults who may have some form of illness (anxiety, ADHD, mild depression, etc.) but they won't admit to the unpleasant truths that need to be recognized to help the 4% of adults with serious mental illness. Dems will not admit that not everyone recovers, that when t<i>he most seriously ill go untreated</i> they <i><u>are</u></i> more violent than others, that some people do need hospitals, that involuntary treatment is better than incarceration, etc. </span><br />
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<span class="s1">If they won't admit the problems, they will not solve them. They are also unduly influenced by the mental health industry, much of which wants to continue to receive mental health funds, free of any obligation to help the seriously ill. As an example, the mental health industry is cheering the new Obama-appointed federal Mental Health Parity Task Force Report, in spite of the fact that it <span class="s2"><a href="http://mentalillnesspolicyorg.blogspot.com/2016/10/white-house-parity-task-force-report.html">left out the most seriously ill</a></span>. I have previously written on <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417522/hillarys-mental-illness-mistake-d-j-jaffe">Hillary Clinton's failure</a> to focus on the seriously mentally ill. And today, election day, the NY Daily News gave big play to <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-mental-health-plan-failed-stop-fatal-subway-push-article-1.2864815">my op-ed </a>on the failure of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to focus the $850 million NYC mental health plan on the seriously ill. Again: this is from a Dem.<br />
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<span class="s1">On the other hand, Republicans are concerned about the effect of homelessness and untreated serious mental illness on quality of life, the spiraling cost of funding pop-psychology and politically-correct pablum <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=4b5597c083&e=18b2661285"><span class="s2">(MHFA</span></a>, <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=11eb4d0782&e=18b2661285"><span class="s2">stigma</span></a> etc.) and disturbed by the growing jail populations. So while they are tight-fisted and may be less willing to fund the worthy, but tangential social services that often are wrapped in a mental health narrative, I have found they are willing to fund evidence based interventions that really do prevent homelessness, arrest and incarceration of the most seriously ill. Even if one argues Republicans have (what to some are) impure motives for supporting mental illness reform (i.e., to stave off calls for gun control), that still gets them focused on improving mental illness treatment. From our pers<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">pective, that is a good thing.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1">So from a mental illness policy perspective, if Trump sticks to what has become Republican orthodoxy (a big 'if', i.e, focus on the most seriously ill), then perhaps things will get better. For example, he could start by "Draining the Swamp" at SAMHSA/CMHS, which is funding so much anti-psychiatry and anti-science that passes as "recovery" or "trauma" treatment these days. <br /><br />One idea for Trump would be to appoint this person as SAMHSA Administrator. She was the former Medical Director of SAMHSA, and wrote this <a href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/depression/federal-government-ignores-treatment-needs-americans-serious-mental-illness/page/0/1">devastating critique</a> on </span>SAMHSA/CMHS when she left.<span style="color: #2baadf;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(43, 170, 223);"> </span></span>Reforming SAMHSA and CMHS is more likely to happen under Republicans, than Dems (assuming again that Trump is a Republican). Of course, he has also promised to dismantle the Affordable Care Act which would hurt persons with mental illness as it hurts all others. And it is hard to pin him down on specifics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Senate will come back to work for just a few short weeks before the new administration takes over. They do have mental health reform on their calendar, but it is questionable as to whether there is actually enough time in the short session to get around to it, and if they do get around to it, will it be the weak bills they are currently considering or something stronger. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1">We should try to get the Senate to take up and pass the </span><a href="http://www.peteearley.com/2016/07/01/the-good-bad-and-the-useless-an-analysis-of-the-helping-families-in-mental-health-crisis-act/">The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act</a> (HR2646) during this short lame duck session. It passed House in uniquely bipartisan 422-2 vote. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It will start to get the federal mental health agencies to focus more on the seriously ill, help create more hospital beds, fund programs like Kendra's Law and focus on programs that have evidence of efficacy.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mental Illness legislation should not have to wait until a new administration takes office.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Call your two U.S. Senators at (202) </b><b>224-3121 and urge him/her to bring the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (HR2646) to a vote in Senate as soon as Senate returns to work. Mental Health reform should not be put on hold until the new administration takes over. The call takes two minutes</b></span><br />
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Thanks for all you do. Reminder. My book,<i> Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Seriously Ill</i> is a valuable advocacy tool that can be pre-ordered on <span class="s2"><a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=d183ba178e&e=18b2661285">Barnes & Nobl</a>e</span> and <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=081c643011&e=18b2661285"><span class="s2">Amazon</span></a>. Follow Mental Illness Policy Org on Facebook and Twitter.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">The Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Task Force report issued by the White House today shamefully fails to end the federal government's own massive discrimination against people with serious mental illness that is embedded in Medicaid. The Medicaid Institutes for Mental Disease (IMD) provision prevents states from receiving federal reimbursement for seriously mentally ill individuals between 18 and 64 who need long-term psychiatric hospital care. This limitation applies only applies to the mentally ill and parity can not be achieved without eliminating it. If you have a disease in any organ and are Medicaid-eligible, Medicaid pays with a single exception: individuals who have a mental illness in their brain. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The IMD Exclusion causes states to lock the front door of psychiatric hospitals and kick the mentally ill out the back. The failure to eliminate the IMD Exclusion will cause more individuals with disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder to be offloaded to jails, shelters, prisons and morgues. The Task Force should have called for ending this injustice. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Background Info: Op-ed by DJ Jaffe in Washington Post</span></div>
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The annual meeting was entitled, “Understanding the Roadmap to Mental Health.” The word “roadmap” refers to ThriveNYC, the $800 million NYC mental health plan. Since I think it is failing because it funds pop-psychology and useless programs and generally ignores serious mental illness, I thought attendees would be a good audience to share my point of view with.</div>
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So I made up a package of three handouts: a one-pager on why I believe <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicyorg.blogspot.com/2016/10/nycs-new-helpline-not-what-seriously.html">ThriveNYC is failing</a>, a copy of the <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/de-blasios-mental-health-blindspot-14812.html">critical article on ThriveNYC</a> that Seth Baron wrote for City Journal and a fact sheet containing the <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/kendras-law/research/kendras-law-studies.pdf">research on Kendra’s Law</a>, a useful program that Dr. Gary Belkin, the director of mental health services in NYC refuses to make available to most who could benefit from it.</div>
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As I usually do, I showed up early (I knew several people who are members of Harlem NAMI, as am I) and started handing out my fact sheet to those few who were already seated. This all took place before the event started.</div>
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A man came over and told me I couldn’t hand out literature. I explained that it was directly related to the purpose of this PUBLIC meeting. He said I couldn’t and asked me to leave. I was pretty sure I was within my rights, and I said that at a public meeting all sides should be allowed to present their point of view. He said, “We are trying to build support for the Roadmap and you want to say it doesn’t work so you have to leave” </div>
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While I was gathering my belongings a woman who identified herself as Detective Fleming came over, and said Mr. Cook said I had to leave. I asked who that was and she said he was (I think) a hospital (Community Affairs?) Director. I said that I was surprised as a police officer that she takes orders from him, versus someone at NYPD, but she said she is a detective, but did not work for NYPD, she works for the hospital and escorted me out. Note that I was very calm and so were they. We had a disagreement, that is all, and they said they had the right to force me to leave, and I didn’t know enough to know if they are right or not.</div>
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<b>Guards posted outside Harlem Hospital to make sure no literature questioning efficacy of ThriveNYC was given to participants at public hearing on Thrive NYC (10.24.27)</b></div>
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So I left and started handing out my literature on the street to people who were going into Harlem Hospital. I would ask, “Are you going to the mental health meeting” and if they answered in the affirmative, I handed them literature. At that point Detective Fleming and a big guy who I took to be a boss (Cook?) and a little guard came out and told me I couldn’t hand out literature in front of the hospital. I said, respectfully, that I am ex-hippie who has participated in many protests and I am pretty sure I am allowed to hand out literature on the sidewalk. The big guy tried to mildly intimidate me and said, “Do you want me to ratchet this up.” And at that point I took a big breath and said, “yes, I think I do.” (In my mind, I was thinking, if he wants to escalate this, he will likely call police and if they tell me I can't hand out literature, I would have to take their word for it.) He went inside-I thought to call police-and the other security guards stayed behind to watch me and tell me repeatedly I had to leave. I didn’t. I continued. And they continued to tell me I had to leave. I must have been right, because even though they stayed around watching me, continually saying I could not hand out literature, they did nothing when I did.</div>
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I was frankly very surprised. It did get the adrenaline going a little a bit. I had thoughts about a night in jail, something that hasn't happened to me since the Vietnam War Protests in DC. </div>
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I think they were wrong to try to shut down free-speech, especially, as I wasn’t even saying anything, just handing out literature. I don’t think it was part of any cabal, although frankly I don’t understand it, as handing out literature at a public meeting is fairly mom and apple pie. </div>
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I do think it explains one important reason why ThriveNYC is failing to serve the seriously mentally ill. First Lady Chirlane McCray, Deputy Mayor Richard Buery and others are only hearing from mental "health" officials, mental "health" industry reps, and mental "health" advocates. </div>
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Read thoughtful articles about ThriveNYC failing the most seriously ill <span id="goog_628472901"></span><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/de-blasios-mental-health-blindspot-14812.html">here</a> <span id="goog_628472902"></span>or <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/11/15/the-citys-dangerous-mental-health-dodge">here</a> and <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0805dj.html">here</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-24310774049442881772016-10-25T12:46:00.004-04:002016-10-25T12:50:24.296-04:00NYC Health & Hospitals Corp Kicked Mental Health Advocate (Me) Out of Meeting.<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "San Francisco", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.24px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Last night (October 24) I got kicked out of the 2016 Annual PUBLIC meeting of the Harlem Community Advisory board to NYC Health and Hospitals Corp. It was in the second floor auditorium of Harlem Hospital.</div>
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The annual meeting was entitled, “Understanding the Roadmap to Mental Health.” The word “roadmap” refers to ThriveNYC, the $800 million NYC mental health plan. Since I think it is failing because it funds pop-psychology and useless programs and generally ignores serious mental illness, I thought attendees would be a good audience to share my point of view with.</div>
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So I made up a package of three handouts: a one-pager on why I believe <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicyorg.blogspot.com/2016/10/nycs-new-helpline-not-what-seriously.html">ThriveNYC is failing</a>, a copy of the <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/de-blasios-mental-health-blindspot-14812.html">critical article on ThriveNYC</a> that Seth Baron wrote for City Journal and a fact sheet containing the <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/kendras-law/research/kendras-law-studies.pdf">research on Kendra’s Law</a>. </div>
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As I usually do, I showed up early (I knew several people who are members of Harlem NAMI, as am I) and started handing out my fact sheet to those few who were already seated. This all took place before the event started.</div>
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A man came over and told me I couldn’t hand out literature. I explained that it was directly related to the purpose of this PUBLIC meeting. He said I couldn’t and asked me to leave. I was pretty sure I was within my rights, and I said that at a public meeting all sides should be allowed to present their point of view. He said, “We are trying to build support for the Roadmap and you want to say it doesn’t work so you have to leave” </div>
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While I was gathering my belongings a woman who identified herself as Detective Fleming came over, and said Mr. Cook said I had to leave. I asked who that was and she said he was (I think) a hospital (Community Affairs?) Director. I said that I was surprised as a police officer that she takes orders from him, versus someone at NYPD, but she said she is a detective, but did not work for NYPD, she works for the hospital and escorted me out. Note that I was very calm and so were they. We had a disagreement, that is all, and they said they had the right to force me to leave, and I didn’t know enough to know if they are right or not.</div>
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<b>Guards posted outside Harlem Hospital to make sure no literature questioning efficacy of ThriveNYC was given to participants at public hearing on Thrive NYC (10.24.27)</b></div>
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So I left and started handing out my literature on the street to people who were going into Harlem Hospital. I would ask, “Are you going to the mental health meeting” and if they answered in the affirmative, I handed them literature. At that point Detective Fleming and a big guy who I took to be a boss (Cook?) and a little guard came out and told me I couldn’t hand out literature in front of the hospital. I said, respectfully, that I am ex-hippie who has participated in many protests and I am pretty sure I am allowed to hand out literature on the sidewalk. The big guy tried to mildly intimidate me and said, “Do you want me to ratchet this up.” And at that point I took a big breath and said, “yes, I think I do.” (In my mind, I was thinking, if he wants to escalate this, he will likely call police and if they tell me I can't hand out literature, I would have to take their word for it.) He went inside-I thought to call police-and the other security guards stayed behind to watch me and tell me repeatedly I had to leave. I didn’t. I continued. And they continued to tell me I had to leave. I must have been right, because even though they stayed around watching me, continually saying I could not hand out literature, they did nothing when I did.</div>
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I was frankly very surprised. It did get the adrenaline going a little a bit. I had thoughts about a night in jail, something that hasn't happened to me since the Vietnam War Protests in DC. </div>
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I think they were wrong to try to shut down free-speech, especially, as I wasn’t even saying anything, just handing out literature. I don’t think it was part of any cabal, although frankly I don’t understand it, as handing out literature at a public meeting is fairly mom and apple pie. </div>
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I do think it explains one important reason why ThriveNYC is failing to serve the seriously mentally ill. First Lady Chirlane McCray, Deputy Mayor Richard Buery and others are only hearing from mental "health" officials, mental "health" industry reps, and mental "health" advocates. </div>
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Read thoughtful articles about ThriveNYC failing the most seriously ill <span id="goog_628472901"></span><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/de-blasios-mental-health-blindspot-14812.html">here</a> <span id="goog_628472902"></span>or <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/11/15/the-citys-dangerous-mental-health-dodge">here</a> and <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0805dj.html">here</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-30035609650778147342016-10-24T14:13:00.001-04:002016-10-24T14:15:46.249-04:00NYC's New Helpline Not What Seriously Mentally Ill Really NeedOn Oct. 24, with great fanfare, NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray announced a new HelpLine for Mentally Ill (Call <span style="background-color: white; color: #292f33; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;">1-888-NYC-WELL or t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #292f33; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.26px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ext, "WELL" to 65173). When pressed by a reporter, Ms. McCray admitted that it was little more than 1 800 LIFENET with the addition of text capability. </span><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Assisted Outpatient Treatment</span></u><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9003940997813092256#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt;">[2]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></b></span></a><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hospitals<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Housing<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cuts Homelessness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No<o:p></o:p></div>
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No<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 75.7pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 60.3pt;" valign="top" width="60"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cuts Arrest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No<o:p></o:p></div>
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No<o:p></o:p></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 107.15pt;" valign="top" width="107"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 75.7pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 60.3pt;" valign="top" width="60"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cuts Incarceration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No<o:p></o:p></div>
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No<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 75.7pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 60.3pt;" valign="top" width="60"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cuts Suicide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 1.15in;" valign="top" width="83"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
No<o:p></o:p></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 106.35pt;" valign="top" width="106"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
No<o:p></o:p></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 107.15pt;" valign="top" width="107"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 75.7pt;" valign="top" width="76"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 60.3pt;" valign="top" width="60"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cuts hospitalization<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 1.15in;" valign="top" width="83"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
No<o:p></o:p></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 106.35pt;" valign="top" width="106"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
No<o:p></o:p></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 107.15pt;" valign="top" width="107"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">THRIVE/NYC shuns
the seriously ill and focuses on “improving mental wellness” in all others.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li>·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Thrive/NYC funds “prevention” but serious mental
illness can’t be prevented because we don’t know what causes it.</span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Thrive/NYC funds “early intervention” but we
can’t predict who will become seriously ill until after the symptoms first
appear.</span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Thrive/NYC funds “trauma,” but trauma is not a
mental illness. Everyone loses a loved one, loses a job, experiences accidents,
etc. PTSD is mental illness and even that runs from mild to severe.</span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Thrive/NYC diverts mental health funds to programs
that do not help seriously mentally ill.</span></li>
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NYC needs an “all hands on deck”
approach to reducing homelessness, arrest, incarceration, suicide, and
hospitalization of seriously mentally ill. Mental Illness Policy Org promotes
ideas to accomplish that. Join us on Facebook and Twitter and subscribe to our
email list at http://bit.ly/2eKarUd<br />
<br />
Here is an article that appeared in City Journal that got it right. Also read this one <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/didn-die-article-1.2837212">in Daily News</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt;">De Blasio’s Mental-Health Blindspot<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; font-weight: normal;">By
Seth Barron </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal;">(City Journal Online 10/20/16)<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow";">On Tuesday, an NYPD sergeant shot and killed 66-year-old Deborah
Danner, an emotionally disturbed woman who attacked officers, first with a pair
of scissors and then with a baseball bat. Mayor Bill de Blasio and police
commissioner James O’Neill wasted no time blaming the sergeant for not
following correct police protocol for responding to mentally distressed
individuals. It may well be the case that the responding officers made serious
errors. It may be that the sergeant’s actions were criminal. <b>But the real mistake was the city’s
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s neglect of Danner’s serious mental
illness.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow";">Danner’s case
was known to the city. Her sister, with whom she lived, was Danner’s legal
guardian, and the NYPD had been called to their house many times. Like many
seriously mentally ill individuals, Danner had cycled through the city’s
police-medical complex, and was apparently non-compliant with her medical
regimen—that is, she didn’t take her anti-psychotic medicine as prescribed.
“It’s the classic situation: someone is supposed to take meds and they go off
their meds,” de Blasio said at a press conference. “Because of their illness
they choose not to take their meds. Once they don’t take their meds it is very
hard to get them to engage another kind of treatment.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "arial narrow";">Listening to the
mayor, one would think that the paradox he outlined has never been addressed
before. But New York, like almost every state, has a robust set of laws known
generally as assisted outpatient therapy (AOT). Locally, the statute is known
as <b>“Kendra’s Law.” It has proven
effective at keeping the mentally ill out of hospitals and shelters</b> and
promoting compliance with doctor’s orders. Kendra’s Law covers cases where a
non-compliant and seriously mentally ill individual has previously been
hospitalized, and is judicially and medically judged to pose a danger to
himself or others. The law provides for a six-month period of supervision,
during which the subject must comply with treatment or face possible commitment
to a hospital. This rarely happens. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow";">Kendra’s Law is
remarkably successful at helping the seriously mentally ill live relatively stable
lives. The statistics are stunning: violent or harmful behaviors decrease by 44
percent; hospitalizations decrease by 77 percent; drug and alcohol abuse
decrease by half. Patients report high levels of satisfaction with their
participation in AOT, and the costs of care decline substantially, because
outpatient treatment is so much cheaper—in financial and human terms—than
incarceration or hospitalization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "arial narrow";">Despite AOT’s
track record of success, New York State rarely chooses to apply Kendra’s Law,
even in seemingly obvious cases like Deborah Danner’s. Liberal critics of
involuntary psychiatric commitment, still shuddering from the 1972 Willowbrook
exposé, argue that any hint of coercive intervention is a violation of the
civil liberties of the mentally ill. Meanwhile, the mental-health industry
prefers to focus on mental illness as a public-health problem, like venereal
disease or typhus. Publicity campaigns advise people on how to identify the
signs of depression in themselves or their associates, or warn about the
problem of stigmatizing mental illness. This epidemiological approach to mental
illness fails because untreated schizophrenia is not contagious, nor is it hard
to identify.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "arial narrow";">Thousands of
homeless or incarcerated mentally ill New Yorkers aren’t living on the streets
or in Rikers Island jail because they fear the stigma of mental illness.
Rather, the city’s mental-health establishment has chosen not to deal seriously
with their care. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "arial narrow";">De Blasio speaks
magnanimously about his grand approach to treating mental illness through his
ThriveNYC plan, but that plan includes virtually nothing for the seriously
mentally ill. Instead, the mayor is spending millions of dollars on feel-good
advertising campaigns promoting peer counseling and awareness. His wife,
Chirlane McCray, announced a collaboration this week between ThriveNYC and
Tumblr, where people will be encouraged to submit quilt patches representing “a
creative expression around changing the conversation around mental health and
an individual’s relationship with mental illness.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: 15.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "arial narrow";">Awareness isn’t
the most pressing issue regarding the mentally ill in New York City. New
Yorkers are already aware of the many suffering people in their midst. By
making the police take up the slack for the city’s failed mental-health policy,
de Blasio is being cynical and careless. Kendra’s Law is a working solution to
the problems of people like Deborah Danner, but the mayor refuses to use it.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.city-journal.org/contributor/seth--barron_849" target="_blank"><em><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">Seth
Barron</span></b></em></a><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><em><b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; padding: 0in;">is pro</span></b></em><em><b><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; padding: 0in;">ject director of the Manhattan Institute’s NYC Initiative. He
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Clients of Statutory Mental Health Services." American Psychiatric
Association “Guideline Watch: Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients
with Schizophrenia.” "BMC Psychiatry, A Systematic Review and
Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials of Peer Support for People with
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-22766684569112392582016-10-11T17:48:00.002-04:002016-10-11T17:51:10.251-04:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-69965073892440255222016-10-11T17:48:00.001-04:002016-10-11T17:51:07.867-04:00This Book Could Help You Change the Mental Health System Forever: Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am proud to say <b><i>Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill </i>is now available for pre-order </b>on <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=ae7a3fa3c6&e=7b518eccbb"><span class="s2">Amazon</span></a> and <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6c24e23e8aebd88e4480f290d&id=cd219434bc&e=7b518eccbb"><span class="s2">Barnes and Noble</span></a>. </h3>
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This critically important book gives people who care about the <b>seriously mentally ill </b>the facts they need to be better advocates and provides specific guidance on how to force the mental health system to deliver better treatment. It documents the failure of the mental health system, tells who is to blame, provides you direct links to policy and treatment research, and describes specific actionable ideas to reform the system. The brilliant foreword by Dr. E. Fuller Torrey (Author, <i>Surviving Schizophrenia</i>) puts these proposals in perspective.</div>
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<span class="s1">Please pre-order <i>Insane Consequences</i> on <span class="s2"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Insane-Consequences-Mental-Industry-Mentally/dp/1633882918" target="_blank">Amazon</a></span> or <span class="s2"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/insane-consequences-d-j-jaffe/1124115958" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble</a></span>. For the record, 100% of my proceeds will go to Mental Illness Policy Org. and other organizations working to improve care for the seriously ill. I am not making a nickel on this, I am simply trying to help. It is 340 pages and we have kept the pre-order price low, considering the size of the book: $25 for hard cover and $11.99 for Nook and Kindle. Both Amazon and Barnes and Noble let you read a detailed description of the book and they include reviews of my past work.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">(Note: if you buy it via <span class="s2"><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Insane-Consequences-Mental-Industry-Mentally/dp/1633882918">smile.amazon</a>,</span> a portion of the proceeds will go direct from Amazon to the charity of your choice. I would suggest Treatment Advocacy Center or whatever is important to you.)</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Thank you for considering pre-ordering <i>Insane Consequences</i>. I don't think you will be disappointed and I know you will be helping improve care for others who have<b> serious mental illness</b>. Thanks for all you do. Please share with others who care.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-7755052205495518092016-06-13T15:25:00.001-04:002016-06-13T15:28:48.838-04:00Pass a strong H.R. 2646 focused on seriously mentally ill<div align="center">
<strong>Statement by DJ Jaffe, Exec. Dir (6.14.2016)</strong></div>
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<em> </em><i><b>“H.R. 2646 sends the seriously mentally ill to the head of the line for services rather than to jails, shelters, prisons and morgues.”</b></i></div>
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<strong></strong><em>“The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (HR2646) being proposed by Representatives Tim Murphy (R., PA) and E.B. Johnson (D., TX) starts to bring sanity to the insane mental health policies that are rampant in government. Historically, government agencies have ignored the seriously ill in order to promote “mental wellness” in all others. This bill starts to bring that practice to an end by focusing government on the elephant in the room: getting evidence-based treatment to adults known to be seriously mentally ill. It replaces years of federal mission-creep with a dose of mission-control. That will help reduce homelessness, arrest, incarceration, hospitalization, and violence, while saving taxpayers money.” </em><br />
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<em>“We thank Representatives Tim Murphy, E.B Johnson, Fred Upton and Frank Pallone. We urge the E&C Committee to put a doctor at the head of SAMHSA and CMHS, fund Assisted Outpatient Treatment, increase the number of hospital beds, free parents from HIPAA Handcuffs and start to focus federal efforts on the elephant in the room: getting science based treatment to adults with serious mental illness, rather than on programs based on pop-psychology and pseudo-science.</em><br />
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<strong>Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)</strong> (See research summary: <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/national-studies/aotworks.pdf)" style="color: #333333;">http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/national-studies/aotworks.pdf)</a><br />
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<li>Cuts homelessness, arrest, incarceration, violence and hospitalization for the most seriously ill by 70%. </li>
<li>Saves taxpayers 50% of the cost of care.</li>
<li>Only for the small group of the most seriously ill who refuse or are unable to comply with voluntary treatment and already put themselves or others at-risk.</li>
<li>Supported by Int’l Assoc. of Chiefs of Police, National Sheriff’s Assoc., SAMHSA, DOJ, AHRQ, NAMI, and others.</li>
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<strong>Reform SAMHSA and CMHS</strong> (See <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/samhsa.html)" style="color: #333333;">http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/samhsa.html)</a><br />
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<em>“SAMHSA does not address the treatment needs of the most vulnerable in our society. Rather, the unit within SAMHSA charged with addressing these disorders, the Center for Mental Health Services, chooses to focus on its own definition of “recovery,” which generally ignores the treatment of mental disorders…There is a perceptible hostility toward psychiatric medicine: a resistance to addressing the treatment needs of those with serious mental illness and a questioning by some at SAMHSA as to whether mental disorders even exist—for example, is psychosis just a “different way of thinking for some experiencing stress?”</em> (<a href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/depression/federal-government-ignores-treatment-needs-americans-serious-mental-illness/page/0/1)" style="color: #333333;">http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/depression/federal-government-ignores-treatment-needs-americans-serious-mental-illness/page/0/1)</a></blockquote>
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<li>SAMHSA and CMHS replaced the “medical model” with an internally invented “recovery model” that requires even the most seriously ill to “self-direct” their own care. (John Hinckley was ‘self-directing’ when he tried to get a date with Jodi Foster by shooting Pres. Reagan)</li>
<li>There is virtually no support for SAMHSA or CMHS other than from the organizations they fund that want to continue to receive funds free of an obligation to serve the seriously ill. </li>
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<strong>Other ways to improve care for seriously mentally ill</strong><br />
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<li>Create hospital beds 2) Free parents from HIPAA Handcuffs 3) rein in anti-treatment activities of PAIMI.</li>
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We hope legislators will put a doctor at the head of both SAMHSA and CMHS like all other federal medical agencies. We also hope they will define "evidence-based," a term used throughout the bill to mean <br />
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“a program or practice that has independent evidence it improves a meaningful outcome in adults with mental illness or children with serious emotional disturbance.” “Meaningful outcomes" includes reductions in homelessness, hospitalization, arrest, incarceration, violence, and suicide or other outcomes."</blockquote>
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<span class="s1">SAMHSA and CMHS rarely do any of that. The evidence they use is not independent, the programs are not for mentally ill, and the outcomes they measur are rarely the meaningful ones.</span></div>
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<strong>Mental Illness Policy Org</strong>. is a non-partisan, science-based think tank focused exclusively on the 4% of adults who have the most serious mental illnesses. We accept no government, healthcare or pharmaceutical company funding and are supported almost exclusively by families who have seriously mentally ill loved ones who the mental health system refused to treat and experienced heartbreaking tragedies as a result. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-17394332283885062742016-03-07T11:32:00.000-05:002016-03-07T11:32:21.505-05:00Deblasio policies cause NYC mental illness stabbings<strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Deblasio administration refuses to use Kendra's Law when needed</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Our hearts go out to James Patrick Dillon, his family, those who were stabbed by him, and the police who had to respond. Like almost all these cases, Mr. Dillon was already known to be seriously mentally ill, had a family that tried to help him get treatment, but could not get him treatment because the DeBlasio administration refuses to focus it's mental health efforts on the most seriously ill. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Specifically, the DeBlasio administration has failed to robustly implement Kendra's Law. Kendra's Law allows judges to order the most seriously ill, who refuse treatment, to accept six months of mandated and monitored treatment as a condition of living in the community. </span><a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/kendras-law/research/kendras-law-studies.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #2baadf; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" target="_blank">Kendra's Law reduces homelessness, arrest, incarceration in the 70% range</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">. It keeps patients, public and police safer. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Our Oped in Manhattan Institute’s City Journal on how ThriveNYC ignores the most seriously mentally ill </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon1208dj.html" style="background-color: white; color: #2baadf; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" target="_blank">http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon1208dj.html</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Our oped in NY Post on how NYC mental health officials ignore the most seriously mentally ill</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://%20http//nypost.com/2015/11/15/the-citys-dangerous-mental-health-dodge/" style="background-color: white; color: #2baadf; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" target="_blank"> http://nypost.com/2015/11/15/the-citys-dangerous-mental-health-dodge/</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Our oped in Manhattan Institute’s City Journal on how NYC data shows it is failing seriously mentally ill </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0805dj.html" style="background-color: white; color: #2baadf; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" target="_blank">http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0805dj.html</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Brian Lehrer (NPR) interview with DJ Jaffe on how NYC mental health officials decided to ignore violent mentally ill</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/571653" style="background-color: white; color: #2baadf; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" target="_blank">https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/571653</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Brian Lehrer (NPR) interviews Chirlane McCray and Dr. Gary Belkin about failure to use Kendra’s Law</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/first-lady-chirlane-mccray-kendras-law/" style="background-color: white; color: #2baadf; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" target="_blank">http://www.wnyc.org/story/first-lady-chirlane-mccray-kendras-law/</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-41893537532928779572016-03-02T11:05:00.000-05:002016-03-02T11:05:00.818-05:00Join Important March 10 Mental Illness Teleconference with Pete Earley
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<span class="s1">Mental Illness Policy Org invites you to join our popular evening teleconference interview series. DJ's next special guest will be former <i>Washington Post </i>reporter<i>, </i>advocate and author Pete Earley.</span></div>
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<li>Pete is the author of <span class="s2"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Fathers-Through-Americas-Madness/dp/0399153136/" target="_blank">Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness</a></span> which documents how the failed mental health system leads to incarceration, and the grotesque conditions faced by the incarcerated mentally ill. </li>
<li>Pete was the first, and so far only journalist to highlight how the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision, which is touted by some, could be unleashing a second wave of <span class="s2"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pete-earley-sending-the-mentally-ill-from-group-homes-to-an-uncertain-future/2014/10/30/f4bd84ce-5b22-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html" target="_blank">disastrous deinstitutionalization</a></span>. </li>
<li>He testified to Congress on multiple occasions, runs a very <span class="s2">popular blog</span>, and recently gave one of the <span class="s2"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLvoZLdtBgik156Be63Md-uG7wFHX8VM4S&v=XOE1eqxo8xg" target="_blank">best speeches on serious mental illness</a></span> ever. He is one of the most important mental illness advocates on the scene today.</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-79822985421981485542016-02-22T15:38:00.006-05:002016-02-22T15:39:31.458-05:00NYS Needs Kendra's Law & Psychiatric Hospitals. Don't let mental health industry close them<div class="" data-block="true" data-offset-key="9pv90-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="9pv90-0-0">The two trade associations representing NYS mental health providers (NYAPRS and MHA) are having their annual rally in Albany tomorrow (Tue. 2/23). We OPPOSE their attempts to move mental health spending away from the<a href="http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-FRR1-2014/NSDUH-FRR1-2014.pdf" target="_blank"> 5% who are the most seriously mentally ill</a> and towards the higher functioning. Their proposals to end Kendra’s Law and close state psychiatric hospitals puts patients, police, and public at needless risk. We will be in Albany on Tuesday to oppose raiding services that treat the seriously mentally ill. </span></div>
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1. Support making Kendra’s Law Permanent and Stronger. (S-04722/A01275). </h3>
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<span data-offset-key="1t5l1-0-0">While NAMI/NYS supports this, the trade associations do not. Kendra’s Law is <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/kendras-law/research/kendras-law-studies.pdf" target="_blank">NY’s most successful program</a> for the most seriously mentally ill. It allows judges to order someone who already accumulated multiple episodes of arrest, violence, incarceration or needless hospitalization to stay in six months of mandated and monitored treatment while they continue to live free in the community. It is only available to those who already refused to accept voluntary treatment that was made available to them. It also allows judges to order community programs to accept these individuals into their programs. Kendra’s Law <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/kendras-law/research/kendras-law-studies.pdf" target="_blank">is proven to reduce</a> arrest, violence, hospitalization and incarceration in 80% range each, cut costs to taxpayers and reduce stigma. 81% of those in it said it helped them get well and stay well. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7aaeg-0-0"> S04722/A01275 make Kendra’s Law permanent, ensure court orders are reviewed before expiring, requires community directors to take reports from family members about loved ones who might benefit, and lowers cost by allowing patients to voluntarily stipulate to Kendra’s Law orders. The NYS Assoc. of Chiefs of Police support. </span></div>
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<b>2. Oppose Closing more Psychiatric Hospital Beds.</b></h3>
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The trade associations are supporting Gov. Cuomo’s budget proposal to close 225 more psychiatric beds that serve the seriously mentally ill. We oppose. The trade associations look at these beds as a bank account and want them closed so the savings can be given to their member organizations. But there are two problems with that. <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0213dj.html" target="_blank">NYS is short at least 4,000 psychiatric hospital beds </a>even if we had perfect community programs. So closing hospitals guarantees the sickest will not receive treatment. Secondly, even when some savings are given to community programs, they refuse to use them to provide actual treatment to the same adults who are being discharged from hospitals. Instead the funds are used on wasteful sideshows like educating the public, fighting ‘stigma’, identifying the asymptomatic, or funding <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/samhsa/mental-health-first-aid-fails.html" target="_blank">programs with no evidence of efficacy</a>. As a result, NYS has<a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/NGRI/jails-vs-hospitals.html" target="_blank"> more mentally ill incarcerated than hospitalized</a>. The percentage of prisoners in NYC jails with mental illness <a href="http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/criminaljustice/downloads/pdfs/annual-report-complete.pdf" target="_blank">shot up 30%</a> between 2010 and 2014.</div>
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<span data-offset-key="fb5vm-0-0"><span data-text="true">We do support increasing housing options, but first we must increase those that provide 24/7 onsite support (group homes), versus the independent housing options supported by the trade associations that serve the higher functioning.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Quick
Rough Instant Analysis of </span></b><b>Comprehensive
Behavioral Health Reform and Recovery </b><b>Act
of 2016’ an alternative to HR 2646.</b></div>
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<a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/" target="_blank">MentalIllness Policy Org.</a> will be studying the bill in detail over the next day or
two. In the interim, here is our instant analysis.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Statement by
DJ Jaffe, Executive Director of Mental Illness Policy Org. </b>We thank the
Democrats for <a href="http://green.house.gov/sites/green.house.gov/files/documents/GREETX_049_xml.pdf" target="_blank">introducing this bill</a>, but note that it largely ignores reforms
that could help the most seriously mentally ill. It is the seriously mentally
ill, not the worried-well who cause added expense and are responsible for
tragedies. Congress must focus on the elephant in the room: getting treatment
to the most seriously mentally ill and this bill does not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Summary.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This bill does a better job at ‘poor mental
health’ than delivering treatment to people known to have the most serious
mental illnesses. It maintains most of the failures of the existing system and
layers more programs on top. Some are good programs, others not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It fails to include the most important
provisions of Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (HR 2646) that help
people with the most serious mental illness:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><b>Assisted Outpatient Treatment
(AOT):</b> HR2646 bill provided $15 million for Assisted Outpatient Treatment which
has been extensively independently researched and proven to reduce
homelessness, arrest, incarceration in the seriously mentally ill, in <a href="mailto:http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/national-studies/aotworks.pdf">70% range</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9003940997813092256#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a>. This bill instead allocates $20 million to
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) which has <a href="mailto:http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/samhsa/mental-health-first-aid-fails.html">been researched</a> and not shown to help the mentally ill.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9003940997813092256#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[2]</span></span></span></a> It is candy for the mental
health industry.</li>
<li><b>SAMHSA: </b>The <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/samhsa.html">failure of SAMHSA</a> to
focus on serious mental illness, it’s waste, have been well-documented by
Mental Illness Policy Org and the E&C, O&I Committee. HR2646 largely
disbands SAMHSA. This bill calls for yet another “study”. In the interim, it
empowers SAMHSA even more. While HR2646 would require the head to be an MD,
this bill creates a new bureaucracy within SAMHSA “Office of Chief Medical
Officer”. It seems to make SAMHSA Administrator an Asst. Sec of Mental Health.</li>
<li><b>Hospital Care:</b> Like, HR 2646, the
bill codifies that managed care plans can pay for 15 days of hospital care for
individuals in capitated payment plans. But it largely maintains the
discriminatory provisions in Medicaid (<a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/media/bestmedia/imd-exclusion-washington-post.html">IMD Exclusion</a>), that prevent people in ‘fee for service
plans’ (50% of those on Medicaid) with serious mental illness from getting
hospital care when needed.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9003940997813092256#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[3]</span></span></span></a></li>
<li><b>Protection and Advocacy. </b>The bill
does not reform the Protection and Advocacy Program which funds federally
funded lawyers in states who work to <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/myths/mental-health-bar.pdf">prevent care</a> for the most seriously ill.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9003940997813092256#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[4]</span></span></span></a></li>
<li><b>HIPAA: </b>The bill leaves HIPAA as
is, but sets up procedure to create new regulations. Since the regs must work
within existing legislation, they are not likely to have an effect. Families
who provide care out of love to mentally ill will continue to be prevented from
receiving the same info paid providers receive.</li>
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Congress can not be claiming to do mental health reform when it ignores the most seriously mentally ill. We urge Congress to stop shunning the most seriously mentally ill. <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/federalmentalillnesslegislation/guide2fedlegislation.html" target="_blank">Here are our ideas</a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-17702296541903925302016-02-01T13:15:00.001-05:002016-02-01T16:28:00.955-05:00Mark Salzer who gets funds from SAMHSA supports SAMHSA<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mark Salzer, Ph.D.,
who is Chair of the Department of
Rehabilitation Sciences at Temple University wrote a surprising oped for the Philiadelphia Inquirer. It claimed<i>, “</i><span style="background: white;">SAMHSA
has clearly served people with serious mental illnesses” and “The elimination
or curtailment of SAMHSA would be a major blow to progressive mental-health
policies in the United States.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There were no real specifics and the massive evidence documenting<a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/samhsa.html" target="_blank"> problems at SAMHSA</a> shows eliminating it and
transferring it’s responsibilities elsewhere would likely improve services for the
most seriously mentally ill. So <a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/index.html" target="_blank">Mental Illness Policy Org</a>. decided to look into what might have led Dr. Salzer
come to his conclusion. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://cph.temple.edu/sites/chpsw/files/Salzer%20CV%20.pdf" target="_blank">Dr. Salzer’s CV</a> shows
that he and his projects receive over $4 million directly from SAMHSA.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It is not known if this financial support from SAMHSA influenced his high opinion of SAMHSA or he really believes what he wrote. It is not known if he disclosed what
most would consider a serious conflict to the editors before submitting his oped. The oped itself made no disclosure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Almost all the
support, the only support, for SAMHSA seems to come from those who receive money from
it or benefit from it. It is not surprising they want their sugar daddy to stay in existence. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Following are the grants </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Salzer lists on his CV. O</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">ver $4 million are identified by him as coming from SAMHSA.</span></b></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Principal Investigator. Evaluation of Friends
Connection. SAMHSA CMHS Consumer-Initiated Services Collaborative Agreement
(SM52355; <b>$2,267,034</b>; 9/98-9/03).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Principal Director. DELCO (PA) Self-Directed Care
Project. Transformation Technology Transfer Initiative, SAMHSA. (<b>$221,000</b>;
5/1/14 – 6/30/15).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Principal Director. Enhancing the role of
Pennsylvania’s Statewide Network of Certified Peer Specialists. SAMHSA
Transformation Transfer Initiative (<b>$107,000</b>; 1/12 – 9/12).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evaluation Co-Director. CABHI-States. SAMHSA States
CABHI Initiative, subcontract to Mental Health Association of Southeastern PA.
(1H79TI025346-01; $1,500,000; <b>$156, 354</b> subcontract; 10/13 – 9/16).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evaluation Co-Director. Philadelphia Homeless
Initiative. SAMHSA CABHI Initiative, subcontract to </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mental Health Association of Southeastern PA.
(TI23520; $1,500,000; <b>$150,000</b> subcontract; 7/12 –</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">6/15).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Consultant. Infusing Peer Specialists into
Pennsylvania’s Behavioral Health Crisis Services System. Transformation
Technology Transfer Initiative, SAMHSA. (<b>$221,000</b>; 1/1/15 – 9/30/15).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evaluation Consultant. Certified Peer Support
Specialists as Healthcare Navigators and Wellness Coaches Within Federally
Qualified Health Centers. SAMHSA Transformation Transfer Initiative to Michigan
(<b>$221,000</b>; 1/12 – 8/12).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evaluator and proposal consultant. Pennsylvania
Statewide Consumer Network Grant. (Mary Kohut, PI). Funded by SAMHSA/CMHS
(SM56338-01; <b>$70,000</b>; 10/1/04 – 9/30/06).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Principal Consultant. National Mental Health
Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse. Funded by </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">SAMHSA/CMHS (SM56065-01 - Joseph Rogers, PI).
(<b>$495,000</b>; 10/1/03 – 9/30/04).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evaluator. Family Ties (Training, Instruction,
Empowerment, and Support). Funded by PEW Foundation to Mental Health
Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (<b>$210,000</b>; 4/1/10 – 3/31/13)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evaluation Director and consultant. National Mental
Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse. Funded by SAMHSA/CMHS (Joseph
Rogers, PI). (<b>$1,200,000</b>; 10/1/07 – 9/30/10).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evaluator. Keystone Pride Recovery Initiative.
Funded by SAMHSA Consumer Network grant (5</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">SMO59833-02) to the Pennsylvania Mental Health
Consumers Association (<b>$70,000</b>; 10/10 – 9/13).</span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p> </o:p><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">He also does
work for other entitites that get their own funds from SAMHSA. These are just a few.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><o:p><br /></o:p></span><br />
<ul><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Consultant. Promoting Olmstead in Pennsylvania.
Advocates for Human Potential (<b>$20,000</b>; 1/12 – 9/12).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Program Director. Philadelphia Disaster Response
Network. Contract with Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
(<b>$22,751</b>; 9/1/02 – 4/1/03).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evaluation Director and consultant. National Mental
Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse. Funded by SAMHSA/CMHS (Joseph
Rogers, PI). (<b>$1,100,000;</b> 10/1/04 – 9/30/07).</span></li>
</span></ul>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></blockquote>
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Most of the studies which Dr. Salzer is associated with above, seem to focus on peer support. <span style="color: #262626;"><a href="http://beta.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/expert-panel-03212012.pdf" target="_blank">SAMHSA’s own review of the research</a> shows:<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext;">“</span><span style="color: #141413;">The literature [on peer
support] that does exist tends to be descriptive and lacks experimental rigor."<w:sdt citation="t" id="-2123835105"> We don't know if SAMHSA was referring to this research. SAMHSA funds other research.</w:sdt></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #141413;"><w:sdt citation="t"><br /></w:sdt></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #141413;"><w:sdt citation="t">T</w:sdt></span><span style="color: #262626;">he well-respected
Cochrane Collaborative reviewed all the high- and low-quality data on peer
support <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23543537" target="_blank">and concluded</a>: </span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Involving
consumer-providers in mental health teams results in psychosocial, mental
health symptom and service use outcomes for clients that were no better or
worse than those achieved by professionals employed in similar roles,
particularly for case management.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23203360" target="_blank">Another study</a>, also not by Salzer, "<span style="color: windowtext;">adds to the evidence suggesting no short-term incremental benefit (or
harm) from peer services beyond usual care.” </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: windowtext;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: windowtext;">In spite of this research casting doubt on peer support, SAMHSA</span><span style="color: #262626;"> continues to fund it. Is that why SAMHSA supported researchers and consumer groups want to preserve SAMHSA? </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
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<!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-30927546971950603052016-01-24T21:30:00.001-05:002016-02-01T16:30:08.813-05:00Keep Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Available. Comment Online to FDA<div class="_45m_ _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="akmhs-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="akmhs-0-0"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>ACTION ALERT. KEEP ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY AVAILABLE. Comment now.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is a little difficult to explain, but the FDA has to reclassify ECT ("Shock") in order to keep it available. They have to solicit comments on whether people are OK with reclassification and I expect that antipsychiatry will organize submission of comments against it. ECT helps some people who have not been helped by other treatments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please submit your comments online. Go to the following link.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4bp91-0-0"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/12/29/2015-32592/neurological-devices-reclassification-of-electroconvulsive-therapy-devices-intended-for-use-in">https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/12/29/2015-32592/neurological-devices-reclassification-of-electroconvulsive-therapy-devices-intended-for-use-in</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click on the Green Button and COPY AND PASTE the following TWO paragraphs into the form. You have to CUSTOMIZE THE FIRST SENTENCE IN 2nd PARAGRAPH , and you are encouraged to insert your own story and thinking at the end to make it personal. Note that this language I am giving is very specific as to what they are asking and what I suggest we say. Include both of the following paragraphs. The form asks for your name/address but that is not publicly available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="9kjdn-0-0"> </span>" [Docket No. FDA-2014-N-1210] Neurological Devices; Reclassification of Electroconvulsive Therapy Devices Intended for Use in Treating Severe Major Depressive Episode in Patients 18 Years of Age and Older Who Are Treatment Resistant or Require a Rapid Response; Effective Date of Requirement for Premarket Approval for Electroconvulsive Therapy for Certain Specified Intended Uses."</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"As the (INSERT YOUR INTEREST IN ISSUE, ex. “mother of someone with mental illness”) I SUPPORT the reclassification of electronconvulsive therapy devices to a Class II device to treat severe Major Depressive Episode associated with Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder in patients 18 years of age and older who are treatment-resistant or who require a rapid response due to the severity of their psychiatric or medical condition. The terms "treatment resistant" and the phrase "require rapid response" do provide sufficient clarity to the population for which ECT benefits outweigh risks. I appreciate that in making this reclassification, the FDA is relying on the voice of science, rather than anti-psychiatry. The FDA previously held hearings on the issue in 2011. Reclassification is important. "</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-40862868582425793922016-01-20T12:31:00.000-05:002016-01-20T12:31:27.874-05:00Notes on Senate HELP Committee Hearing on Mental IllnessFollowing are raw, unproofed contemporaneous notes about the Senate Hearing that took place 1/20/16. It was one hour and you can watch the tape here<br />
http://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/improving-the-federal-response-to-challenges-in-mental-health-care-in-america Don’t rely on my notes.<br />
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On January 20, 2016, Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held hearing on mental illness against backdrop of several bills being proposed. Bills have been proposed by by Senators Blount, Cornyn and Cassidy/Chris Murphy. The committee has some jurisdiction over particular parts of those bills. Chair Sen. Alexander says he has agreement with Sen. Murray (co chair) to move quickly.<br />
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Sen Murray’s opening remarks focused on inadequate access and need to integrate mental and physical health<br />
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Sen Mukolski talked in favor of more money for Community Mental Health Centers, but as Dr. Torrey pointed out in American Psychosis, CMHCs have largely been unwilling to serve the most seriously ill.<br />
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BRIAN HEPBURN (NASMHPD)<br />
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The first witness was Dr. Brian Hepburn, Exec Dir. of National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) He and others talked about need for relief from IMD Exclusion, a provision of Medicaid that prevents states from treating seriously mentally ill who need hospital care. He noted that there is a demo project that gives relief to certain private free standing hospitals that want to provide care to SMI, but it is only a small demo project<br />
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He said “SAMHSA is great partner” and complimented current leadership, which is not surprising, since SAMHSA funds them and is responsible for encouraging them to take on broad mandate rather than focused one. He complimented SAMHSA for the First Episode Psychosis Program, but that was driven by NIMH, and Congress forced SAMHSA to allocate funds to it.<br />
He said what we all know, but public is unaware of: Almost all admissions to state psychiatric hospitals are ordered by courts. It have become virtually impossible to get into a state hospital until after you do something that causes a court to order you into treatment.<br />
He recommended our proposal to ameliorate effect of IMD Exclusion and for Reauthorize Medicaid follows person” policy.<br />
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In response to a question, he said state mental health director’s role is to take care of as many people as cost effectively as possible, and only mentioned serious mentally ill as if it were some pesky afterthought.<br />
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Penny Blake (Emergency Nurses)<br />
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Next speaker was Penny Blake, a nurse speaking on behalf of Emergency Nurses Association and she was terrific. She focused on the fact that there are not enough psychiatric hospital beds so patients are boarded in emergency rooms (ERs) often for days, sometimes in a 10X10 cell that requires extensive staffing to watch them, while the staff tries to find a psych facility willing to transfer them to. She noted that nationwide Boarding Time in ER = 18 hours for psych care. 4 hours for other care. She noted that better community services, for the seriously ill who are likely to wind up in hospital is key. In response to a question from Sen. Murray she listed bed shortage as the top problem that has to be solved.<br />
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In response to a question about HIPAA, she gave a great story about HIPAA. A patient came in to ER. His parents had been calling around looking for him, but she couldn’t tell parents he was there in the ER. That story I heard before, but she went on to make another point: Because she could not tell parents their kid was in hospital, she couldn’t get medical information from them. That information would have helped her provide better treatment. We often hear it said that nothing in HIPAA prevents facilities from receiving information (even if they can’t disclose it) but in this case HIPAA did prevent the receipt of info. In response, Sen Alexander noted that “touching HIPAA is like touching a wire. But we should look at it. “ Asked people to provide lingo for specific HIPAA exemption. <br />
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Dr. William Eaton (Public Health)<br />
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Dr. William Eaton a Professor at John Hopkins in Baltimore was the worst, most irrelevant speaker. He basically ignored serious mental illness (SMI), and focused only on depression. He continually touted the need for “prevention” in spite of the fact that schizophrenia, bipolar, and other serious mental illness cannot be prevented. He criticized NIMH for focusing on biological underpinnings rather than taking a “public health” approach. (Note: the Institute of Medicine, and almost all leading authorities recognize that there is no ‘public health approach (which can mean advertising or vaccinations, or other intereventions applied to everyone) that prevents serious mental illness. He praised SAMHSA (which he worked at two days a week), but even he admitted it was outrageous that they refuse to have a psychiatrist on staff.<br />
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His ‘solution’ is high school education programs and even supported “Teen Screen” which has been proven by research not to help. See http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/samhsa/teenscreenunproven.html )<br />
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HAKEEM RAHEEM (Consumer)<br />
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Hakeem Raheem, a person with bipolar was fairly brilliant. He was the only speaker who regularly, unabashedly used the phrase ‘mental illness’, rather than ‘mental health.’ He explained how while at Harvard he became psychotic and delusional and attributed his recovery to his parents ability to have him quickly admitted to ER and being given meds quickly. He said, “Medicines are key. I take antipsychotics every morning”. He explained the difficulty of finding right med, but said it is difference between life and death. He suggested that meds must be protected, affordable and accessible to people with SMI. He spoke in favor of peer support provisions of S 1945 (?) bill, but did not mention the antipsychiatry peer orgs funded by SAMHSA. Instead he mentioned the peer support programs run by NAMI and Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance as being useful. Sen. Alexander asked him how to persuade people to seek help. He said, “We cant persuade people to do what they don’t want to do. When I was in psychosis, no one could tell me I was in psychosis.”<br />
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Sen Collins <br />
Spoke in favor of Cardin bill which created IMD exemption pilot demo program allowing IMD exclusion for private psych hospital. And supported Cassidy/Murphy bill will addresses IMD exclusion<br />
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Sen Chris Murphy<br />
Claimed that some form of bill will go to Senate floor this year<br />
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Sen Cassidy (LA)<br />
was very on point about SAMHSA and lack of meds in jail, and problems at SAMHSA. Unfortunately, he also seemed to embrace peer support, but I don’t know if he is talking about the antipsychiatry ones SAMHSA supports, or the kind Hakeem Raheem talked about (or if he knows difference. I kind of think he might, since was involved in mental health legislation in House before moving to Senate.)<br />
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Sen Warren<br />
Focused on supportint a reporting on insurance company parity bill introduced by Rep. Kennedy. Apparently, it would be like a consumer watchdog for parity that could report problems in private insurance parity to legislators. A more important idea would be to eliminate federal IMD Exclusion, which is the biggest form of non-parity, as many speakers pointed out.<br />
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Sen Franken, like Eaton talked about prevention. He apparently isn’t aware that SMI can’t be prevented. He also talked about kids in rural area having higher suicide rates than adolescents in urban areas, oblivious to fact that kids in any area are least likely to commit suicide. Blamed stigma.<br />
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Sen Whitehouse (RI)<br />
Noted that the Judiciary Committee wil be considering Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act, that has related provisions.<br />
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Again: listen to the one hour hearing for more details or to ensure my notes are correct. Thank youUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-1956496416609670402016-01-05T09:39:00.000-05:002016-01-05T09:39:36.347-05:00On the death of Ted Stanley, giant psychiatric research philanthropist (Stanley Medical Research Inst. Statement)<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">The Death of a Research Giant</span></div>
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<span class="s2"> The death of Ted Stanley on January 4 deprives the psychiatric research field of a philanthropic giant. An extremely successful businessman, he chose to spend his money on research on serious mental illness, especially schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, rather than on yachts or Caribbean hideaways. On occasion he was even known to fly coach, rather than business or first class, in order to have more money to donate.</span></div>
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<span class="s2"> The creation of the S<a href="http://www.stanleyresearch.org/" target="_blank">tanley Medical Research Institute</a> (SMRI) in 1989 by Mr. Stanley and his wife, the late Vada Stanley, has had a major impact on schizophrenia and bipolar research. Over the past 27 years the Stanleys donated almost $600 million to SMRI. This money has supported extensive research on the causes and treatment of these diseases.</span></div>
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<span class="s2"> For example, SMRI has funded over 400 treatment trials using drugs that were unlikely to be supported by the pharmaceutical industry because the drugs could not be patented and therefore could not be profitable. The Stanley funds were also used to set up the Stanley Brain Collection, the most widely used brain bank in the world by researchers for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Over the past 20 years it has distributed without charge over 250,000 samples of brain tissue, as well as DNA and RNA, to 303 research laboratories in 22 countries. Finally, the Stanley funds were used to set up the Stanley Laboratory of Developmental Neurovirology at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. This laboratory has become the leading research center in the world for research on infectious causes of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. SMRI’s coordinated research efforts are the primary reason for the emergence of inflammation as a major research area for these diseases and the likelihood that infectious agents play a role in the causation of at least some cases. This in turn has led to the current use of anti-inflammatory drugs to treat these diseases, thus opening up a completely new avenue for treatment.</span></div>
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<span class="s2"> In addition to funding research at SMRI, Mr. and Ms. Stanley also funded psychiatric research at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and at the Broad Institute in Cambridge. In 2014 Mr. Stanley donated $650 million to the Broad Institute to support research on the genetics of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Thus, altogether the Stanleys donated more than $1.2 billion to research on these diseases.</span></div>
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<span class="s2"> All of us in the mental health field have lost a remarkable friend and supporter. We are extremely indebted to Mr. and Ms. Stanley, and we should try and live up to the very high standard in commitment to this research that the Stanleys have set.</span></div>
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<span class="s2"><i>Maree J. Webster, Ph.D.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><i>E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><i>Robert H. Yolken, M.D.</i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-68626652253637532012016-01-02T10:03:00.001-05:002016-01-02T10:04:34.952-05:00Conf Call: How to Prevent Police from Harming/Arresting Mentally Ill<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">Join this important conference call. Police Chief (Ret) Michael Biasotti, is the former Pres. of NYS Association of Chiefs of Police, a member of the Treatment Advocacy Board and an expert on police interactions with the seriously mentally ill who recently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyeX33RxBq0" target="_blank">testified to Congress</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">During this call, he will help mental illness advocates understand why police sometimes shoot people with mental illness, alternatives to CIT to reduce those shootings, why police take mentally ill to jail instead of hospitals, and more. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Most importantly, he will teach mental illness advocates how to turn police and sheriffs into partners. Law enforcement officials are as upset as advocates, that because the mental health system won't treat the seriously ill, the police department has to step in. Chief Biasotti will show how to reach out to local and state sheriffs and police to get them to support the changes that will return care of the seriously ill back to mental health departments where it belongs. Many mental health advocates look at law enforcement as the enemy because </span>of the few high-profile incidents that go wrong, But police and sheriffs are natural supporters of preserving psychiatric hospitals, changing civil commitment standards, implementing Assisted Outpatient Treatment and other programs that help the most seriously ill. It makes their job easier. Their voice is powerful and we have to learn how to engage them. </div>
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<span class="s1">Reaching out to police and getting them on our side has been hugely successful in NYS. The NYS Assoc. of Chiefs of Police has supported <a href="http://www.nychiefs.org/legislative_memoranda/a6987.html" target="_blank">reform of state laws </a>and <a href="http://murphy.house.gov/uploads/NY%20State%20Chiefs%20of%20Police%20Association%20Dec%202013.pdf" target="_blank">national legislation</a> to help the most seriously ill. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003940997813092256.post-37051547847727995452015-12-02T13:17:00.000-05:002015-12-08T08:32:55.711-05:00NEW DATE: 12/14 9PM EST, Conf. call on Psychiatric Parole with Dr. Stephen Seager<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.0545px;">RESCHEDULED: Monday, December 14</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.0545px;">He will talk about his book and about a psychiatric parole program in California, Forensic Conditional Release (<a href="http://www.dsh.ca.gov/forensics/CONREP.asp" target="_blank">CONREP</a>) that is like an enforceable version of Assisted Outpatient Treatment (<a href="http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/national-studies/aotworks.pdf" target="_blank">AOT</a>) for prisoners that should be made available in other states.</span><br />
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