2025 PA Health Funders Collaborative Policy Agenda Items
Behavioral Health
- Improve the behavioral health crisis system and connections to mental health services
- Create a funding stream for youth mental health prevention and early intervention services provided by community-based organizations
Resources:
pdf Teen Mental Health Recommendations
pdf Teen Mental Health CBO Prevention Brief
Maternal Health
- Sustain the Perinatal Telephonic Psychiatric Consultation Service (TiPS) program to provide provider-to-provider consultations on how to identify and treat perinatal mental health and substance use disorders
- Support paid family leave
Resources:
pdf Maternal and Child Health Recommendations
Healthcare Workforce
- Increase funding for staffing in nursing home and long-term care settings
- Increase the behavioral health workforce by integrating behavioral and physical health care, ensuring adequate supervision to enable therapists to become licensed providers, and enforcing mental health parity laws
- Modernize the scope of practice for Certified-Nurse Midwives and License Certified Midwives
- Reimburse certified Community Health Workers and certified Perinatal Doulas
Resources:
pdf Long-Term Care Workforce Recommendations
Access to Health Care and Public Services
- Continue Medicaid coverage for eligible Pennsylvanians
- Modernize enrollment systems for SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, and Medicaid
- Ensure access to housing, school lunches, language services
Resources: