Care, crisis, and schools
Access to mental-health and substance-use care, the 988 crisis line, youth mental health and social media, insurance parity, and the workforce shortage. Framed as both a health and a public-safety question.
No taught bill maps to this issue yet. The policy-area rule for it is listed in the taxonomy; any bill can still be looked up.
Issue
Mental Health
Care, crisis, and schools
Why it connects to…
Schools are the main point of contact for youth mental-health services and the center of the social-media debate.
Mental-health and substance-use care are covered, or not, by the same insurance and parity rules.
Homelessness policy sits at the intersection of housing supply and behavioral-health care.
Jails are among the largest mental-health providers, and crisis response is being redesigned around that fact.
Youth mental health is the main argument behind social-media and online-safety legislation.
Crisis response, red-flag laws and suicide prevention connect firearms policy to mental-health care.
Jails are among the largest mental-health providers, and crisis response is being redesigned around that fact.
Schools are the main point of contact for youth mental-health services and the center of the social-media debate.
Mental-health and substance-use care are covered, or not, by the same insurance and parity rules.
Homelessness policy sits at the intersection of housing supply and behavioral-health care.
Crisis response, red-flag laws and suicide prevention connect firearms policy to mental-health care.
Youth mental health is the main argument behind social-media and online-safety legislation.