Biden's 2024 budget to allocate $10.8B for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

President Joe Biden has included $10.8 billion in his 2024 budget for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 

The funding is $3.3 billion more than what was allocated in the 2023 budget, according to the agency's website. 

The funds will be distributed as follows: 

  • $1.7 billion, an increase of $645 million, for the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant.

  • $413 million for community mental health centers, operated by state and local governments as well as nonprofit organizations, to increase access to mental health services.

  • $553 million, an increase of $168 million, for certified community behavioral health clinics.

  • $836 million, an increase of $334 million, to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

  • $244 million, an increase of $104 million, for Project Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education, which identifies children and youth in need of mental health services in their schools.

  • $102.9 million, an increase of $47 million, for primary and behavioral healthcare integration, which expands the infrastructure and increases the availability of primary healthcare and wellness services for individuals with serious mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and drug/alcohol addiction. 

  • $2 billion, an increase of $425 million, for the State Opioid Response grant program, which provides funding to states and territories to address the opioid crisis and substance use disorder across the nation. Of the $2 billion, $75 million would go to the corresponding Tribal Opioid Response grant program. 

  • $2.7 billion, an increase of $700 million, for the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Support Block Grant. 

  • $50 million to community harm reduction and engagement initiatives, a new program that would fund state, local and territory government as well as tribal and nongovernmental efforts to provide substance use care through community harm reduction activities and linkages to services.

Funding will also go toward changing the agency's and its centers' names to use the phrase "substance use" as opposed to "substance abuse," which will require Congressional action. 

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