WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Congresswoman Susan Wild spoke on the Property floor to recognize Mental Wellness Awareness Month and get in touch with consideration to the mental overall health crisis young men and women are experiencing: a crisis that demands addressing via legislation like the Enhancing Mental Wellness and Suicide Prevention By means of Campus Preparing Act.
“Mental overall health is an problem close to my heart, and making certain that absolutely everyone has access to the mental overall health care they require is one particular of my best priorities in Congress,” stated Congresswoman Susan Wild. “That’s why I will quickly be reintroducing my Enhancing Mental Wellness and Suicide Prevention By means of Campus Preparing Act which promotes optimistic mental overall health amongst college students and encourages additional complete preparing on college campuses to stop suicide and other mental crises.”
Rep. Wild introduced the Enhancing Mental Wellness and Suicide Prevention By means of Campus Preparing Act final year and will quickly be reintroducing the bill this Congress. This legislation will assist to address the mental overall health crisis on college campuses by requiring the Division of Education to coordinate with the Secretary of Wellness and Human Solutions to encourage institutions of larger education to create and implement complete mental overall health and suicide prevention plans.
About Rep. Wild’s Perform to Boost Access to Mental Wellness Care:
- Rep. Wild shepherded into law the Dr. Lorna Breen Wellness Care Provider Protection Act, legislation to address the mental overall health crisis amongst overall health care experts.
- Rep. Wild partnered with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01) in pushing for the highest funding achievable for the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Wellness Solutions Administration (SAMHSA) to combat the mental overall health and opioid crises.
- Rep. Wild introduced the bipartisan Supporting the Mental Wellness of Employees and Educators Act to enhance access to mental overall health sources for educators and college employees to decrease educator tension, market teacher wellbeing, and produce the foundation for teacher longevity.
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“I rise in recognition of Mental Wellness Awareness Month, specifically as it pertains to the struggles young men and women face in our nation currently.
“Mental overall health is an problem close to my heart, and making certain that absolutely everyone has access to the mental overall health care they require is one particular of my best priorities in Congress.
“In a current national survey, 71% of college students reported experiencing mental overall health challenges such as tension, anxiousness, and depression.
“That’s why I will quickly be reintroducing my bill, Enhancing Mental Wellness and Suicide Prevention By means of Campus Preparing Act, which promotes optimistic mental overall health amongst college students and encourages additional complete preparing on college campuses to stop suicide and other mental crises.
“School and college campuses do not have the counselors or solutions required to make certain just about every one particular of our young men and women has a vibrant future—and it is our job to make confident they do.”
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Olivia Taylor-Puckett