ScholarWorks > HHS > Social Work > JSSW > Vol. 45 > Iss. 3 (2018)
Abstract
Inadequate funding of community mental health has led to a variety of problems, including a shortage of available providers and services. After decades of being ignored, Congress acknowledged these difficulties in 2014 with the passage of the Excellence in Mental Health Act. The Excellence in Mental Health Act, one of the first to target community mental health in decades, created national standards of care and more adequate reimbursement rates for centers able to meet these new standards. The Multiple Streams framework is used to study the success of the Excellence in Mental Health Act in becoming law, examining how policy entrepreneurs were helped by a national focusing event in finally getting their policy solution to the desk of politicians and into law.
Recommended Citation
Leopold, Megan
(2018)
"Problems and Politics: A Multiple Streams Analysis of The Excellence in Mental Health Act of 2014,"
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 45:
Iss.
3, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.4216
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https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol45/iss3/5
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