As a member, AAHD has joined the Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG) thanking Congress for reauthorizing the SUPPORT Act, community-based programs focused on opioids and SUD and including persons with co-occurring mental illness. The October 16 MHLG letter is here: PDF. […]
We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Frederick J. Krause Scholarship on Health and Disability. Every year this award recognizes students with disabilities who are working to advance the broad field of disability and health. Meet our 2025 Scholars Dishita Agarwal (she/her) is a sophomore at Duke University studying Neuroscience, Public Policy, […]
AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined 355 organizations, led by the Disability and Aging Collaborative (DAC) and Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD), asking Congress to legislatively extend the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits and repeal the Reconciliation Act (HR 1) health care provisions. Also see our web public policy updates: September 25 […]
AAHD, as a Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG) member, has joined MHLG members writing Congress requesting a two year legislative extension of Medicare telehealth services. Also see August 12 public policy web posting where AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation joined 350 organizations led by the Alliance for Connected Care asking for legislative extension of Medicare […]
AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined 110 organizations led by the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) supporting proposed legislation to create a new federal grant program to address mental wellness and toxic stress, emergencies, and disasters. Our colleague organization Mental Health America is one of the 110 supporters. Available here are: statement of need […]
Social drivers are critical in shaping health outcomes, maybe having a greater impact than medical care alone. Medicaid has been a leading source of funding for addressing social drivers of health. With deep cuts to Medicaid proposed by the recently passed reconciliation bill, we can assume that essential and already underfunded health programs are at […]
AAHD and the Lakeshore Foundation have joined nine organizations, led by No Health without Mental Health (NHMH) and Association of Medicine and Psychiatry (AMP), advocating Medicare hospital payment policies to promote bidirectional behavioral health and whole-person health care. The letter also advocates a quality measure infrastructure development and advocates the role of peer specialists. AAHD […]
AAHD has joined the Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG), as a member, endorsing the COMPLETE Care Act – legislation incentivizing primary care to include integrated behavioral health care. The May 27 MHLG letter to Congress on S. 931 and HR 2509 is here: PDF. […]
What are the core areas that affect health and wellbeing for people with IDD? This study in the Disability & Health Journal draws on the knowledge of community members, caregivers, and clinicians. It identifies ways to support the health of this disability community. This plain language summary is part of a new series sharing highlights […]
During a time of tremendous change nationally, AAHD continues to advocate for the health of people with disabilities. We publish an annual list of Policy Priorities. In this ongoing blog series, we will dive deeper into our policy work for 2025. This post is being released as we’re seeing attempts to weaken and defund critical […]