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  • 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 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Demonstration Program

  • Consolidated Appropriations Act 2018 authorizes the CCBHC Expansion Grant Program

  • The National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act becomes law

  • Daniel Prude

  • Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES)

  • George Floyd

  • 988 Active Nationwide

  • HHS Selects two additional states (Kentucky and Michigan) to join the Demonstration Program

  • Federal Communications Commission adopts rules to establish 988 as the nationwide number

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

  • Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRSAA)

  • Congress directs SAMHSA to set aside 5% of Mental Health Block Grant for crisis systems

  • American Rescue Plan (ARP)

  • Additional 825 million given to states through Mental Health Block Grant in response to COVID-19 Pandemic

  • ARP creates new state option to provide community mobile crisis services

  • Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA)

  • 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 CCBHC Demonstration Program.