In 2020, Well Being Trust released Healing the Nation: Advancing Mental Health and Addiction Policy, a policy action guide, featuring actionable solutions to improve mental health and well-being.
The policy action guide, provides meaningful and actionable solutions to help advance mental health policy in this country.
Included in Healing the Nation is a Framework focusing on multiple angles for engagement with a specific emphasis on five main entry points for policy:
Well Being Trust is the biggest foundation focused on—like its name—the well-being of Americans. They have just gotten started and their primary focus is [mental health and parity]. We are blessed to have Well Being Trust jump into this space right now at such a critical juncture for this movement. And, I thank Tyler and Ben and all those at Well Being Trust…”
Policy Reports
Pain in the Nation: the latest in a series of reports tracking the nation’s deaths of despair crisis produced by Trust for America’s Health and Well Being Trust.
Bipartisan Policy Center: This examines the major barriers to integrating clinical health care and mental health services in the United States, including insurance coverage and payment disparities, workforce shortages, and administrative challenges.
State & Local Policy Reports
- United States of Care: Immediate and long-term strategies to address and alleviate mental health concerns in every community
- The de Beaumont Foundation and Well Being Trust released: Solutions for Local Leaders
to Improve Mental Health and Well-Being During and Post-COVID-19. This includes more than 60 evidence-based policies, practices, and programs that can prevent further loss of life and livelihood from the nation’s growing mental health crisis.
