This bill would add a new grant program to Title V of the Public Health Service Act. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, would award grants to eligible entities to assess and improve mental health and substance abuse outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, nonbinary, intersex, and Two Spirit youth.
Grants may pay for mental and crisis intervention services (including trauma-informed care), cultural competency training for caregivers, development and distribution of resources and evidence-based practices, data collection, school bullying prevention guidance, integration of mental health services into schools, patient navigator programs, and family acceptance and support models. The bill requires the Secretary to review and update prior SAMHSA reports on these populations, to develop and conduct a federal survey measuring mental health among these youth, and to submit a report on mental health care and cultural competency for these youth in foster care and other federally overseen social service programs.
The bill bars use of grant funds to provide, advertise for, assist, or promote conversion therapy and includes a definition of conversion therapy. It also includes confidentiality protections for data collected under the federal survey.
The bill authorizes $20,000,000 to be appropriated for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030 to carry out the section. No publicly available information on estimated total federal costs beyond this authorization or on any Congressional Budget Office score is included in the provided text.
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