Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2025

Key Points

• This bill creates a new grant program to help towns and cities build mental health support systems. It would provide $36 million over five years to help local groups work together to prevent mental health crises and help people recover from community wide trauma.
• Local organizations like schools, churches, police departments, and businesses would form networks to apply for these funds. The goal is to get different parts of a community talking to each other so they can identify risks and help residents build better skills for handling stress.
• The program offers two types of money. Small planning grants of up to $250,000 help groups get organized and study what their town needs. Larger program grants of up to $500,000 per year help run the actual wellness activities for up to four years.
• To make sure smaller towns are not left out, the bill requires that 20% of all the grant money goes to rural areas. This ensures that people living outside of big cities and suburbs still get access to these mental health resources.

Impact Analysis

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