HHS releases roadmap for behavioral health integration, awards SUD funding

Sep 19, 2022 - 04:02 PM
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The Department of Health and Human Services Friday released a  for better integrating mental health and substance use care into health care, social service and early childhood systems, developed by the agency鈥檚 Behavioral Health Coordinating Council based on feedback the HHS secretary received from patients and providers when  the country to discuss the issue. 
 
鈥淚n order to ensure equity in access to affordable, high-quality, culturally appropriate care for mental health and substance use, we must fully integrate behavioral health into the larger health care system and other systems,鈥  HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. 鈥淭his Roadmap provides a path for getting there.鈥
 
In other news, HHS Friday  $3.6 million in grants to strengthen perinatal and postnatal support structures for patients with substance use disorders, and train SUD providers to identify and address intimate partner violence.
 
 

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