HARRISBURG – ABC27 in Harrisburg reports…Mental health professionals, advocates, and fellow legislators were joined today by State Representative Mike Schlossberg (D-Lehigh County) and Senator Maria Collett (D-Montgomery County) to address restoring $100 million in American Rescue Plan Act for mental health.
State Rep. Schlossberg said the event provided a space to display the importance of mental health resources and funding for people throughout Pennsylvania.
Well aware of the crisis, lawmakers passed House Bill 848 overwhelmingly and bipartisanly steering in $100 million in federal ARPA funding to adult mental health services. The state budget also called for another $100 million for mental health in schools.
The two $100 million dollar pots then became just one in the budget wash. State Rep. Mike Schlossberg (D-Lehigh) says Republicans took the money and steered it to schools and zeroed out money for adults. He believes both should be funded.
State Republicans insist the second pot of money wasn’t agreed to
