Advocacy
2019 Advocacy
Priorities
Nearly 20% of Americans experience a mental illness or substance use disorder. This year 45,000 Americans will die by suicide, 63,000 will die from drug overdoses and 100,000 more will have their first episode of psychosis. This is why we advocate, and who we advocate for.
Please click here to see our 2019 Advocacy Priorities.
Removing Barriers to Care
Congress should eliminate outdated federal rules blocking access to cost-effective treatments.
Combating the Opioid Crisis
Congress should increase access to substance use disorder treatment.
Expanding the Behavioral Health Workforce
Congress should expand the mental health and substance use disorder workforce.
CEO Update
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DOL Official Timothy Hauser to Headline NABH Annual Meeting Day #2 NABH is pleased to announce Timothy D. Hauser, deputy assistant secretary for program operations at the U.S. Labor Department’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), will kick off our Annual Meeting’s second day on Tuesday, May 14 at 10 a.m. Hauser, who serves as EBSA’s chief ...Read moreCEO Update 183
Please Help Us Welcome Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT Steven Posnack on May 13! NABH is pleased to welcome Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Steven Posnack, M.S., M.H.S., as our first 2024 Annual Meeting presenter on Monday, May 13 at 2:45 p.m. ET in the Salamander hotel’s Grand Ballroom. Posnack advises the national coordinator, ...Read moreCEO Update 182
RTI Study Shows Pervasive Disparities in Access to In-Network Behavioral Healthcare A report this week from not-for-profit research institute RTI International adds to mounting research showing a lack of access to affordable mental health and substance use disorder treatment in the United States continues. NABH helped sponsor the study, Behavioral Health Parity—Pervasive Disparities in Access to In-Network ...Read moreCEO Update: 181
NABH Remembers Unit Committee Member Anthony Santucci, M.S. NABH remembers with grateful appreciation Anthony Santucci, M.S., 50, of BayCare Behavioral Health, who died unexpectedly on March 25. Anthony served as BayCare’s director of nursing for 13 years and was an active and energetic member of NABH’s Behavioral Health Services within General Healthcare Systems Committee – known as ...Read more
The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare, are the people on the front lines of this fight…
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden
Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
