Amends the Public Health Service Act to include emergency response providers in mental and behavioral health education and training grants.
The bill amends the Public Health Service Act to include emergency response providers as eligible institutions under the mental and behavioral health education and training grant program. It establishes a three-year pilot program to award grants to eligible entities for supporting the behavioral health needs of qualified emergency response providers. These entities can use the funds for embedding clinicians with emergency response providers, establishing peer-to-peer programs, and assisting in training peer-to-peer behavioral health care providers.
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