Mental health funding programs

Access due to monetary constraints has become one of the major contributors to people not seeking help when going through times of mental distress.

For individuals financially burdened, with and without insurance, countless are faced with choosing between food, heating, shelter, and transportation or paying for relatively expensive assistance. Untreated mental health burdens society and business, ultimately resulting in losses in overall economic productivity. More importantly, than economic productivity is the effect it is having on personal lives and relationships. You may be asking yourself: can people use their insurance coverage to seek and pay for help?

It is a good question — one we will cover in more detail in the coming weeks. I will, however, say that many people who are covered by an insurance policy report having limited access to mental health treatment either due to expensive insurance deductibles or their insurance coverage is not required to cover mental health treatment. If one in every four people will experience a mental health challenge this year with three out of every five of those not seeking help financial reasons being the top driver , you may wonder, what is society doing to ensure access to help is accessible and affordable?

The United States is home to 31 percent of the research funding, with the most prominent being organizations and departments within the federal government. Most of the current funding is aimed at researching mental health with relatively few programs solely focused on providing access to mental health help for those who do not have insurance, mental health coverage, who or cannot afford it.

What this means is that 25 times more was spent on research per person with cancer than was spent on research per person with mental health challenges. Louise Arseneault, a contributor, from the website nationalelfservice. The take-home message here is not that mental illness is more important than cancer but instead, that given its burden on society, mental health research should receive its fair share of investment. As you can see, we need additional private, institutional, and government funding to move the needle on mental health.

This bill went into effect in and provided increased funding, as a pilot, to improve access to mental health and wellness treatment. Their hypothesis is that increasing funding targeted at training school counselors and other mental health professionals will improve access to support for low-income communities. Below are the details of the bill:. The Australian program was developed using the consensus of international expert panels involving mental health consumers, caregivers and professionals.

There are several national local, state, federal or philanthropic resources with grant opportunities that may be appropriate for supporting Mental Health First Aid efforts. The Community Tool Box: In addition to the information outlined on this website, the following one-page descriptions are available for download. First Name. Last Name. Are you trained in Mental Health First Aid? Yes No. Subscribe Done.