Cortez Masto joins representatives from the Nevada Children's Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT), Nevada Department of Children and Family Services, Nevada Medicaid, Nevada Wraparound, Nevada Regional Hospital Partners, and National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Nevada. Ta..
Reno, Nevada – Today, U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) joined local mental health organizations and advocates for a roundtable highlighting the mental health supports available to Reno's youth and their families. Cortez Masto heard about Nevada's efforts to provide and expand crisis care services and discussed comprehensive efforts to provide more resources to support the mental health care needs of Nevadans. .
“We have seen the life-saving support that behavioral health crisis services can provide young people, and I will continue to fight in the Senate to ensure that every Nevadan has access to quality, timely mental health care. I am.” said Senator Cortez Masto.. “From expanding the availability of mobile crisis units to funding more mental health professionals, this is not a partisan issue. I will continue to work to ensure Nevadans get the care they need. , we will continue to work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle.”
Sen. Cortez Masto is a leader in the Senate on mental health issues. She passed her CAHOOTS Act as part of the American Rescue Plan to fund Medicaid Mobile Crisis Response Teams. She also helped introduce the nation's 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, expand comprehensive mental health services, and provide her $1 billion for school mental health services under the bipartisan Safer Communities Act. I've been doing it. She continues to advocate for legislation that increases access to behavioral health care for all Nevadans.
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