Sec. 101. Behavioral Health Crisis Coordinating Office
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Part A of title V of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 290aa et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, shall establish an office to coordinate work relating to behavioral health crisis care across the operating divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Health Resources and Services Administration and external stakeholders. The office established under subsection
(a)shall— convene Federal, State, Tribal, local, and private partners; launch and manage Federal workgroups charged with making recommendations regarding behavioral health crisis financing, workforce, equity, data, and technology, program oversight, public awareness, and engagement; and support technical assistance, data analysis, and evaluation functions in order to develop a crisis care system to establish nationwide standards with the objective of expanding the capacity of, and access to, local crisis call centers, mobile crisis care, crisis stabilization, psychiatric emergency services, and rapid post-crisis follow-up care provided by— the National Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Crisis Hotline and Response System; community mental health centers (as defined in section 1861(ff)(3)(B) of the Social Security Act); certified community behavioral health clinics, as described in section 223 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; and other community mental health and substance use disorder providers. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027. .
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