Pew Project

  • Initial Funding into Hotline and Crisis Centers

  • The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline launched with the number 1-800-273-8255 (TALK)

  • SAMHSA & VA Partner to Establish the Veterans Crisis Line

  • HHS Awards $23 million in Planning Grants to 24 States for CCBHCs

  • HHS Selects Eight States to Participate in CCBHC Demonstration Program

  • Consolidated Appropriations Act 2018

  • The National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act becomes law.

  • Daniel Prude

  • CARES ACT

  • George Floyd

  • 988 Active Nationwide

  • HHS Selects Two Additional States (Kentucky and Michigan) to Join The Demonstration Program

  • FCC Adopts Rules to Establish 988 as the Nationwide Number

  • The National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020 is signed into law

  • CRSSA ACT (part of Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021)

  • 5% Set Aside for Crisis MHBG

  • American Rescue Plan

  • Additional Block Grant Money Added CARES ACT

  • Enhanced Match (American Rescue Plan)

  • Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

  • BJA Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP)

  • Consolidated Appropriations Act 2023

  • 15 States Given Additional CCBHC Planning Grants

  • HHS Announces Ten New States have Joined the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Medicaid Demonstration Program.