Community Mental Wellness Worker Training Act

Key Points

• This bill creates a grant program to train and certify community mental wellness workers. These workers would help people with mild to moderate mental health issues like anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
• The program focuses on helping communities with high poverty, high unemployment, or high rates of drug use. It also targets areas that do not have enough doctors or mental health professionals.
• These workers would be trained to spot mental health problems early and provide basic counseling. They would also learn how to create safety plans to help reduce the risk of suicide in their communities.
• The plan would spend $25 million each year from 2027 through 2031. At least 20 percent of that money would go toward technical support and teaching organizations how to hire and use these new workers.
• To encourage more people to participate, the bill provides legal protections for these workers and their employers. This means they would have the same malpractice coverage as other federal health workers if they are sued.

Impact Analysis

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