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Trump Administration Issues Healthcare Blueprint

The proposal — which Trump has dubbed the Great Healthcare Plan — doesn’t come with a lot of detail. But it does outline some policies already floated by Republicans, such as giving Americans cash directly to purchase insurance, and further efforts to implement more price transparency requirements for hospitals and insurance companies. Administration officials also stressed that the effort is more comprehensive than just a long-promised replacement for the Affordable Care Act.
 

Science Shows Very Different Psychiatric Disorders Might Have the Same Cause

A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric patients, finding that many conditions involve similar genes and may not need to be treated as distinct illnesses.

In essence, the study suggests that bolstering the traditional emphasis on patient behavior with a deeper understanding of the biology of mental illness could lead to better treatment.

Published in Nature, the paper addresses the boundaries psychiatry uses to separate similar conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The research also suggests that linking genes to the brain processes they influence will provide psychiatrists with greater insight into their patients, and guide researchers toward new therapies.
 

HHS Terminates, Then Reinstates, Thousands of Grants for Substance Use, Mental Health

The Trump administration reversed course late Wednesday after notifying thousands of organizations across the country that their substance use recovery and mental health grants were being terminated, according to a top Democrat, a congressional aide and an administration official.

The cuts targeted discretionary grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and included youth overdose prevention and medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorder, among other things.

Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said in a statement late Wednesday that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had reinstated the grants.

“Congress holds the power of the purse, and the Secretary must follow the law,” she said, adding that the cuts would have eliminated programs that save lives.

The administration official and congressional aide, both granted anonymity to discuss internal matters, confirmed the reinstatement of the grants.

The cuts were expected to reduce access to services for mental health and substance use disorder nationwide and threatened to make it harder for Republicans and Democrats to reach an agreement on legislation funding HHS in 2026, which includes money for SAMHSA. Funding runs out on Jan. 30 unless Congress acts.

In termination notices sent to grantees, signed by Christopher D. Carroll, principal deputy assistant secretary at SAMHSA, the agency wrote that it’s “adjusting its discretionary award portfolio, which includes terminating some of its awards, in order to better prioritize agency resources.”

Democratic lawmakers criticized Trump and Kennedy over the terminations after they came to light Wednesday.

“Kneecapping and defunding the fight against the opioid and mental health epidemics will not ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ it will put American lives on the line,” said Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, the top Democrat on the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees HHS funding, in a statement.

Kennedy, who has talked about his own addiction to heroin and recovery, told Senate appropriators last May that HHS would continue to support “the most effective ways” of ending the opioid epidemic.

But he defended his efforts to fold SAMHSA into a new entity at his Department of Health and Human Services called the Administration for a Healthy America. That entity has yet to be formally created amid court challenges against it.

Some drug policy advocates said they saw the cuts as a signal that the administration is still eager to pursue that restructuring.

SAMHSA has already lost roughly half of its staff over the last year to layoffs and resignations tied to Trump’s efforts to downsize the federal workforce. Recent data from the White House Office of Personnel Management showed that the agency now employs 547 people, down from 916 in 2024.
 

The OneOhio Regional Grant Cycle 2 Grant Portal and Funding Inquiry Window is Now Open

We’re thrilled to share that the Regional Grant Cycle 2 Grant Portal and Funding Inquiry window is now open! You can access the Grant Portal, as well as other important resources, on the OneOhio Grant Headquarters webpage. All Funding Inquiries must be submitted in the portal by February 11.

Regional Grant Cycle #2 Schedule

  • Wednesday, December 10: Regional Grant Cycle 2 RFP posted on the Grant HQ
  • Wednesday, January 14: Regional Grant Cycle 2 Funding Inquiry window opens
  • Wednesday, February 11: Regional Grant Cycle 2 Funding Inquiry window closes
  • March – May: Region Grant Reviewers review Funding Inquiries and prepare recommendations for the OneOhio Regional Boards
  • Friday, May 29: Deadline for Regional Boards to approve funding recommendations and submit them to the Foundation

Grant Cycle #2 Webinars 

As part of the Foundation’s efforts to support potential applicants throughout the Funding Inquiry process, we have hosted two RFP webinars and have additional webinar and Impact Academy opportunities in the coming weeks. We encourage potential applicants to attend. All webinar information is posted on the Grant HQ webpage.

  • RFP Webinar
    Tuesday, December 16 & Wednesday, January 7 [View Recording]
  • Funding Inquiry Webinar
    Wednesday, January 21 [Register Here]
  • Impact Academy - Evidence Guide for Applicants
    Tuesday, January 27 [Register Here]

Grantee Resources & Social Media Toolkit

OneOhio staff have developed resources to help potential applicants throughout the process, including the Regional Grant Cycle 2 Evidence Guide, the Regional Grant Cycle 2 Funding Priorities document and more. All resources are posted on the Grant HQ webpage. 

We’ve also created a social media toolkit to help us share this grant opportunity with groups across the state. If you’re active on social media, please use these tools and/or share the Foundation’s social media content with your followers. 

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Questions?

If you have questions, please first review the resources available in the Grant Toolkit at OneOhioFoundation.com/Grants. Our team will be updating this page regularly with important information to help applicants throughout the process. All questions not answered in the resources should be directed to [email protected].

Thank you for all you do to support those impacted by substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders. Together, we can build stronger, healthier and more resilient communities across Ohio. 
 

New CCBHC Senate Bill, Op-Ed Published 

In case you missed it, we’re pleased to share a newly published opinion editorial authored by National Council President & CEO Chuck Ingoglia, encouraging lawmakers to support a new CCBHC bill recently introduced in the Senate.

 Excellence in Mental Health Act Will Increase Access for Everyone

By Chuck Ingoglia, Opinion Contributor - 1/07/26

Across the country, our behavioral health system is straining under a severe workforce shortage, leaving millions of people without access to comprehensive mental health and substance use care. Too many individuals and families are left waiting — or going without support entirely — at a time when needs are rising.

Amid these challenges, a group of senators is demonstrating real leadership by advancing policies that would strengthen our nation’s behavioral health infrastructure. One of the most impactful solutions they are championing is the expansion of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics.

These clinics are transforming mental health and substance use treatment in hundreds of communities across the country by providing comprehensive, 24/7 access to care — including crisis services — regardless of ability to pay.

They coordinate care, strengthen the behavioral health workforce and ease the massive pressures on emergency departments and law enforcement, which have become de facto responders to mental health and overdose emergencies.

A bipartisan coalition of senators has presented a solution to enable more people to access the comprehensive care offered by these game-changing clinics.

The Ensuring Excellence in Mental Health Act, introduced by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), would take a major step toward ensuring that even more communities can benefit right now from this successful model of care. The legislation advances several core priorities:

  • Better access for older adults: By establishing Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics as a provider type under Medicare, the bill makes it easier for older adults to access comprehensive behavioral health services, while improving workforce sustainability.
  • Deeper care integration: The act would give these clinics the option to provide additional primary care services, which would help them deliver whole-person care.
  • Continued expansion and sustainable support: The act will help states expand services, grow workforce capacity and ensure technical assistance is available to help clinics not just succeed, but thrive.
  • We know they work — not in theory, but in practice. More than 500 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics across 48 states and territories serve an estimated 3 million children, adults and families. The data from these clinics shows these clinics are dramatically improving access to care.
  • Timely connection: More than 80 percent of these clinics see clients for routine needs within 10 days of the initial call, a stark contrast to the national average of 48 days.
  • Increased services: Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics have seen a 33 percent increase in the number of people served. And 60 percent report an increase in the number of individuals engaged in medication-assisted treatment, a critical tool for treating disorders including opioid use disorder.
  • Reaching more people: Over 80 percent of these clinics have expanded programs to reach veterans and people experiencing homelessness.
  • Stronger workforce, more jobs: Through stable funding, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics have reported increased hiring, adding a median of 22 new positions per clinic. This means more people can be seen, and it spurs job growth in the community.

They also offer resources and care to treat the whole person. For example, the Healthy for Life program at LifeWays, in Michigan, empowers people through nutrition education, personal fitness coaching and healthy-eating classes. LifeWays, and clinics like it, also helps reduce homelessness and ease the instability that so often fuels mental health crises. These clinics are innovative, community-rooted, and successful in reaching people long left behind by the traditional system.

Through standardized data reporting, annual cost reports providing a detailed view of clinics’ expenditures and regular community needs assessments, the model provides a level of transparency that supports performance and financial monitoring along with quality improvement — allowing the public to see exactly how these clinics deliver results.

And they truly do deliver. Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics decrease emergency room visits by 55 percent, reduce mental health care hospitalizations by 55 percent, and have even lowered incidents of homelessness measured in the previous 30 days by 31 percent.

We thank Congress for prioritizing improving access to mental health and substance use care. This is an important bill that will help sustain access to comprehensive care for the nearly 4 million already served by them and help to give millions more people a real path to wellbeing. If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org.
 
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