Mental Health America's Advocacy Network is a powerful voice for change that is made up of thousands of individuals nationwide who take an active role in protecting America's mental health through legislative advocacy. TAKE ACTION!

Latest Alert: Urge Your Members of Congress to Support Key Mental Health Legislation During August Recess

Please click here for Mental Health America's work to advance the Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation. You will find our ACA workshops, presentations, webinars, issue forums and other tools to help your community implement ACA, the law of the land.

Mental Health America's Regional Policy Council (RPC), which is made up of affiliate policy leaders from around the country, strengthens our advocacy work at the state and federal levels on parity implementation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other vital issues.

The RPC continues to expand its work monitoring implementation of health reform through issue forums on the ACA and mental health issues. The inaugural forum was held on March 7 in Washington, D.C. The second forum was held on June 23 in Austin, Texas, and included affiliates from the Region and guests. To read a summary of the Austin forum and view slides, click here.

Capitol Hill Day is one of Mental Health America's (MHA) most important annual events. Please click here for fact sheets and webinar training on issues that are critical to the mental health and addiction communities.

Mental Health Parity

Enacted on October 3, 2008, the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (Public Law 110-343) is intended to end health insurance benefits’ inequity between mental health/substance use disorders and medical/surgical benefits for group health plans with more than 50 employees. The law is projected to provide parity-protection to 113 million people across the country.  For more information, please visit our parity page.

Health Care Reform

Enacted on March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (Pub.L. 111-148) is expected to expand health care coverage to an additional 32 million citizens and legal immigrants by 2019 through a combination of state-based private insurance exchanges and a Medicaid expansion.  In addition, the new law includes a number of reforms to curb harmful insurance company practices as well as provisions to slow the growth of health care costs and improve quality of care.  For more information, please visit our health reform resources.

Policy Issues A-Z

Mental Health America has prepared resources on many different policy issues.  If you are looking for information about local, state or federal mental health policy and advocacy topics, please visit our Policy Issues A-Z issues and click on your area of interest.

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