“We don’t think you can solve America’s gun violence epidemic through the prism of mental health. But if we have agreement between Democrats and Republicans to spend billions of additional dollars on mental health treatment, let’s take that opportunity.'
, an economist and the director of the Center for Health Information and Research at Arizona State University, because not all the programs getting additional funding have been evaluated for effectiveness or are able to be evaluated.
“There are lots of little opportunities in this bill, but it’s hard to tell as a whole” if it will be useful at improving mental health, said Domino. Some of the funding will begin this year and continue for four or five years. Other spending streams may not start until 2024. That’s typical, since government funding must be planned years in advance. But it raises questions about how quickly mental health programs can be beefed up.
Still, advocates and researchers emphasized that more money going toward mental health will likely be beneficial since programs are severely underfunded across the U.S.Over half of gun deathsThe new law also provides funding for states that can be used to implement red flag laws, which have been shown to reduce suicide rates.
But experts acknowledge that the mental health spending may not do as much to stop the gun violence that’s manifested through mass shootings, such as in Uvalde, at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in May, and during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.What questions do you have about Southern California?
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