9–8–8 Crisis Response Workforce Act

This bill changes federal behavioral health workforce programs to include crisis response work, such as crisis call centers, mobile crisis teams, and crisis stabilization facilities. It requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect and publish data comparing the need for and availability of crisis response services in health professional shortage areas. It adds crisis management training to a minority fellowship program and authorizes $10 million per year for those fellowships for fiscal years 2027 through 2031. It also expands behavioral health workforce training grants to cover crisis work and remote practicum programs, and authorizes an extra $10 million per year for crisis workforce development for fiscal years 2027 through 2031.

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Sponsors

• Troy A. Carter Democrat sponsor
• 7 cosponsors