Fostering and supporting mental health, focusing on empowerment, well-being and suicide prevention

Congress must invest in mental health and substance use care infrastructure

The nation’s infrastructure is about more than roads and bridges, broadband and renewable energy. At the most fundamental level, infrastructure literally begins with — and depends on — people. And when it comes to mental health and substance use disorders, our human infrastructure was vulnerable and struggling before COVID-19, and it has taken a battering during the pandemic.