Shred nation5/15/2023 ![]() Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) BHWET is essential to our profession and clients as it prioritizes efforts to provide direct behavioral health care services by employing behavioral health professionals to serve in communities with shortages in behavioral health clinicians. The Behavioral Health Workforce Education & Training (BHWET) program is targeted to be completely eliminated, resulting in a loss of $50 million in funding authorized in the FY 2017 Continuing Resolution. The president’s budget also eliminates almost $400 million from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, including a massive $116 million taken from the agency’s community mental health services block grant alone. For example, the National Institute on Mental Health, which conducts important research on brain disorders and mental illnesses, will have its budget reduced by $301 million. However, key mental health programs are being targeted for major cuts in in the administration’s FY 2018 budget.
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