Well Being Trust’s policy strategy and agenda focuses on increasing affordable access to care. As an impact philanthropy dedicated to advancing the mental, social, spiritual health of the nation, we believe we have an opportunity to make a positive impact through policy.
Healing the Nation: Advancing Mental Health and Addiction Policy
Our focus on policy and advocacy includes supporting, developing, and leveraging key public policy and advocacy initiatives that will result in increased access to integrated, comprehensive mental health services.
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:
Health Systems
Integrate mental health care where people seek physical care
Judicial System
Avenues to aid those with mental health concerns
Education System
Childhood is a critical time to improve mental health
Workplace & Unemployment
Maximize mental health outcomes across situations
Whole Community
Concrete steps to span sectors
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Download Healing the Nation: Advancing Mental Health and Addiction Policy
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Read the Executive Summary
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Watch the Release Webinar (March 2020)
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.
- 2021 BPC Report: Primary and behavioral health care integration comes down to four core policy changes
- 2019 BPC Report Identifies Barriers and Policy Options to Integrating Clinical and Mental Health
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. - The Kennedy Forum, Carter Center and Well Being Trust jointly released: Evaluating State Mental Health and Addiction Parity Statutes
- The Lown Institute and Well Being Trust Report: California’s health care paradox: Too much health care spending may lead to poor community health
