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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · H.R. 4435 (Introduced in House) — To improve access to mental health and substance use disorder prevention, treatment, crisis, and recovery services. · Sec. 519

Sec. 519. Assertive community treatment grant program for individuals with serious mental illness

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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, shall award grants to eligible entities— to establish assertive community treatment programs for individuals with serious mental illness; or to maintain or expand such programs. To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall be a State, county, city, tribes, tribal organizations, mental health system, health care facility, or any other entity the Secretary deems appropriate.
In selecting among applicants for a grant under this section, the Secretary may give special consideration to the potential of the applicant’s program to reduce hospitalization, homelessness, incarceration, and interaction with the criminal justice system while improving the health and social outcomes of the patient. The Secretary shall— at the conclusion of each fiscal year, submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees on the grant program under this section, including an evaluation of— cost savings and public health outcomes such as mortality, suicide, substance abuse, hospitalization, and use of services; rates of incarceration of patients; rates of homelessness among patients; and patient and family satisfaction with program participation; and provide appropriate information, training, and technical assistance to grant recipients under this section to help such recipients to establish, maintain, or expand their assertive community treatment programs.
To carry out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021. Of the funds appropriated to carry out this section in any fiscal year, no more than 5 percent shall be available to the Secretary for carrying out subsection (d).
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