The coalition wants candidates to discuss policies for preventing mental health issues, for creating access to affordable treatment, and for expanding recovery services and treatments. It plans to seek and publish 2020 candidate positions on mental health policies later this year.
The eight founding organizations are:
- The Kennedy Forum
- The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- The Jed Foundation
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- National Council for Behavioral Health
- Mental Health America
- One Mind
- Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation
Mental Health for US is co-chaired by former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., and former U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore.
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