Investments will fund critical needs in key priority programs that address crisis care, youth mental health, and overdose prevention
The President’s Budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 includes $10.8 billion for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), $3.3 billion over the agency’s FY 2023 enacted budget. The FY 2024 budget proposal continues to support the President’s Unity Agenda to address the national mental health crisis and overdose epidemic.
With a multidimensional approach to addressing the nation’s behavioral health challenges, SAMHSA’s FY 2024 budget proposal includes a historic investment to transform America’s behavioral health crisis care system, with the expansion of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline; a mandatory proposal for Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) to increase access to high-quality, comprehensive mental health services in communities across the nation; and the request to Congress to change ‘Abuse’ to ‘Use’ in the Agency’s and Centers’ names, to reduce the historic stigma that too often has proven to be a barrier to seeking and receiving care.
“The Fiscal Year 2024 SAMHSA budget proposal contains critical, targeted investments to address America’s behavioral health needs and to increase access to quality care for individuals and families across the nation,” said Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon, Ph.D., the Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use and the leader of SAMHSA. “This funding will further facilitate SAMHSA’s daily work to connect more people to proven prevention, treatment, and recovery services and supports.”
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