Bill > HR7237

This bill, the REACHING Improved Mental Health Outcomes for Patients Act of 2022, aims to reauthorize and expand certain mental health, suicide prevention, and crisis care programs. Key provisions include: 1. Reauthorizing and increasing funding for the National Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Laboratory, the Priority Mental Health Needs of Regional and National Significance program, and the Integration Incentive Grants and Cooperative Agreements program. 2. Establishing a new grant program to strengthen community-based crisis response systems, including improving care coordination and access to inpatient and residential mental health/substance use disorder treatment facilities. 3. Reauthorizing and increasing funding for the Mental Health Awareness Training Grants and the Adult Suicide Prevention program. 4. Creating a new Assisted Outpatient Treatment Grant Program to provide funding for court-ordered outpatient treatment for individuals with serious mental illness, with the goal of reducing hospitalization, homelessness, incarceration, and interaction with the criminal justice system. The bill seeks to enhance mental health and crisis care services and support across the country, particularly for underserved and vulnerable populations.

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