The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today
announced that it plans to issue a $50 million funding opportunity
announcement to help Community Health Centers establish or expand
behavioral health services for people living with mental illness, and drug
and alcohol problems. Community Health Centers will be able to use these
new funds, made available through the Affordable Care Act, for efforts such as
hiring new mental health and substance use disorder professionals, adding
mental health and substance use disorder services, and employing team-based
models of care.
“Most behavioral health conditions are treatable, yet too many
Americans are not able to get needed treatment,” said Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Mary K. Wakefield, Ph.D.,
R.N. “These new Affordable Care Act funds will expand the capacity of our
network of community health centers to respond to the mental health needs in
their communities.”
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