Mental Health
Mental health advocates in Congress are hopeful that the current attention on their issues resulting from the gun control debate will give impetus to some of their legislative priorities. Once such measure, the Mental Health in Schools Act, to increase Federal funding for therapists and mental health services in schools, has been introduced by Representative Grace Napolitano (CA-D) as H.R. 751 and by Senator Al Franken (MN-D) as S. 195. The Congressional Mental Health Caucus, which Representative Napolitano chairs, is working to preserve funding for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and for research at the National Institute of…
