Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, introduced the Mental Health Matters Act (H.R. 10564), comprehensive legislation to help tackle our nation’s mental health crisis by increasing access to supports, services, and resources, for children, students, workers, and families by strengthening school-based behavioral health care, bolstering mental health parity protections, and ensuring access to mental health and substance use disorder benefits for workers and families.

Diagnoses of PTSD and anxiety disorders nearly doubled between 2019 and 2023, according to a new Defense Health Agency report.

SUNY Canton will host several “Mental Health First Aid” training opportunities this spring that are open to the public.

The governor said she is taking several steps to help fix the problem as she believes many crimes are linked to untreated mental illness.

Construction is beginning on a $16.6 million Crisis Receiving and Stabilization Center that will provide around-the-clock care, including urgent psychiatric care, for adults who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis.

A UVA researcher says 151 million cases of diagnosable mental disorders “can be attributed to lead.”

Former state Sen. Whitney Westerfield, who did not seek reelection, has a new job. Westerfield, an attorney, will become director of legal and government affairs for LifeSkills, a nonprofit community mental health center based in Bowling Green, on Jan. 5, the company announced Friday.

Employers should expect to see existing mental health solutions expand services geared towards youth and new digital solutions.

I cannot help but think how much healthier we would be as a nation if we treated mental health the way we treat any other condition — with compassion.