ARPA Funding Guidance for Behavioral Health Programs
How can counties and state agencies best apply the recent windfall of federal aid? On March 11th, 2021, the Biden Administration signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to support communities in crisis. Totaling $1.9 trillion dollars, around $3 billion of these funds are earmarked to support behavioral health programming at the state and county levels. “This is an unprecedented amount of funds being earmarked specifically for behavioral health expansion. States an