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Since 2003 the Congressional Mental Health Caucus, with over 90 Members of Congress in membership, have joined this important caucus to discuss awareness and find solutions in a bipartisan manner on improving mental health care and its delivery to every American.

The Congressional Mental Health Caucus works in a bipartisan manner to inform, educate, and advocate to Members of Congress and the public on a variety of mental health issues, including:

• Reducing negativism & stigma: Raising awareness on both mental health and mental illness and provide examples of successful treatments for leading healthy and productive lives.

• Aiding efforts to access mental health services: Identifying who, when, and where mental health services are offered, including Medicare and Medicaid, that can improve the lives of anyone afflicted, especially low-income families, and seniors;

• Improving work-related productivity: Assisting businesses to lower employee health care costs by providing information and mental health programs that have been successful in lowering absenteeism and improved work productivity; and

• Protecting veterans: Ensuring all men, women, and their families in any uniform returning from active duty in Afghanistan and Iraq receive access to mental health services for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other related mental health conditions anytime in the future.

We trust this information is useful and look forward to hearing from you to reach bipartisan consensus as we combine medical and behavioral health services to coordinate diagnosis and treatment to lower costs, improve our nation’s health care system, and provide better care to our service men and women. We would be honored to receive your comments, questions, or suggestions.

Sincerely,