Pride In Mental Health Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Pride In Mental Health Act adds a new Public Health Service Act grant program administered through the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use. HHS must award grants to eligible entities to assess and improve mental health and substance-use outcomes for LGBTQ+, nonbinary, intersex, and Two Spirit youth. Grant uses include trauma-informed mental and behavioral health services, crisis intervention, caregiver cultural-competency training, family and caregiver resources, evidence-based practices for SAMHSA's resource center, data collection, school bullying prevention guidelines, school-based mental-health integration, patient navigator programs, and family acceptance models. Grant recipients may not use funds to provide, advertise, assist, facilitate, promote, or direct youth to conversion therapy. HHS must also restore, review, and update SAMHSA reports and publications that existed on January 19, 2025 and focused on LGBTQ+ populations, while excluding conversion-therapy-promoting materials. The Secretary must develop a federal survey on serious psychological distress, mental illness, mental health, and mental health care among LGBTQ+ youth, potentially through the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, with strict confidentiality rules, civil remedies for wrongful disclosure, and respondent notices. HHS, with NIMH and the Administration for Children and Families, must report on mental health care and cultural competency for LGBTQ+ youth in foster care and other federally overseen social-service programs. The bill authorizes $20 million per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
Who Benefits and How
LGBTQ+ youth benefit from grant-funded trauma-informed mental health care, crisis intervention, school supports, and patient navigation. Youth in foster care benefit from a required HHS report on mental health care and cultural competency in federally overseen social services. Caregivers and families benefit from cultural-competency training and family acceptance support models. Community mental-health providers benefit from new HHS grant opportunities and SAMHSA evidence-based practice work.
Who Bears the Burden and How
HHS mental-health grant staff must establish the program, review applications, police conversion-therapy restrictions, and manage reports. Grant recipients must comply with limits on conversion therapy and collect data on youth mental and behavioral health. SAMHSA staff must restore, review, update, and prioritize LGBTQ+-focused reports and publications. Federal survey administrators face confidentiality duties, respondent notices, and civil liability for wrongful disclosure. Federal taxpayers fund the $20 million annual authorization through fiscal year 2030.
Key Provisions
- Creates HHS grants for LGBTQ+ youth mental-health and substance-use outcomes.
- Funds trauma-informed care, crisis resources, caregiver training, school guidelines, navigators, data collection, and family acceptance models.
- Prohibits grant funds from supporting conversion therapy.
- Requires SAMHSA to restore, review, and update LGBTQ+-focused reports and publications.
- Requires a federal survey on LGBTQ+ youth mental health with confidentiality protections and civil remedies.
- Requires an HHS report on LGBTQ+ youth in foster care and social-service programs.
- Authorizes $20 million annually for fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Creates HHS grants for LGBTQ+, nonbinary, intersex, and Two Spirit youth mental-health services, caregiver cultural-competency training, crisis resources, school bullying guidelines, patient navigators, family acceptance models, SAMHSA evidence-based practices, data collection, federal survey work, confidentiality protections, and reports, while barring grant funds from conversion therapy.
Key Policy Areas
Mental Health, LGBTQ Youth, HHS Grants
Primary Purpose
Creates HHS grants for LGBTQ+, nonbinary, intersex, and Two Spirit youth mental-health services, caregiver cultural-competency training, crisis resources, school bullying guidelines, patient navigators, family acceptance models, SAMHSA evidence-based practices, data collection, federal survey work, confidentiality protections, and reports, while barring grant funds from conversion therapy.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- LGBTQ+ youth
- Youth in foster care
- Caregivers
- Community mental-health providers
Identified Costs
- HHS mental-health grant staff
- Grant recipients
- SAMHSA staff
- Federal survey administrators
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Davids of Kansas (for herself, Mr. Sorensen, Mr. Torres …
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
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Federal survey administrators, HHS mental-health grant staff, SAMHSA staff
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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