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CMS: $15 Million Awarded to 20 States to Expand Mobile Crisis Intervention

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded $15 million in planning grants to 20 states to support expanding community-based mobile crisis intervention services for Medicaid beneficiaries. By connecting people who are experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis to a behavioral health specialist or critical treatment, these services can help to reduce the reliance on law enforcement when people are experiencing a behavioral health crisis and, in turn, may help to prevent the unnecessary incarceration of people with serious mental illness or substance use disorders. Read more

 
 
 

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