Bill > S1795

This bill, the Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act, aims to address mental health issues among youth, particularly racial and ethnic minorities. Key provisions include establishing an Integrated Health Care Demonstration Program to provide behavioral health care in primary care settings, conducting a study on mental health disparities in racial and ethnic minority groups, developing best practices and core competencies for health professionals to address these disparities, implementing an outreach and education strategy to promote behavioral and mental health among minority groups, and increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to support research in these areas. The bill also reauthorizes the Minority Fellowship Program and requires a study on the effects of smartphone and social media use on adolescents.

Health and Social Services

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1795/all-info