An Act building resilience and increasing access to mental health services
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Overview
This bill creates a grant program to help nonprofit organizations that serve communities at high risk of hate crimes or are themselves at high risk of hate crimes. The program aims to increase staff competency in behavioral health and expand supportive programming to address mental health needs within these communities. The Department of Mental Health will oversee the grants and track their distribution and impact through regular reporting.
Key provisions
- Establishes a mental health capacity grant program for high-risk nonprofits.
- Grants support staff training in behavioral health competency.
- Grants support expanded supportive programming for staff and communities.
- Grants must be distributed geographically equitably and correlate with hate crime data.
- The Department of Mental Health will create regulations for the grant program.
- The Commissioner of Mental Health will file annual reports detailing grant activities.
- Reports will include application numbers, grant awards, funding amounts, and grantee missions.
- Priorities will be based on annual state reporting on hate crimes.
Who is affected
- Nonprofit organizations
- Communities at high risk of hate crimes
- Populations at high risk of hate crimes
- Staff of nonprofit organizations
- Mental health service recipients
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Primary sponsor
Substance Use and Recovery Joint Committee on Mental Health
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