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The bill expands culturally competent, trauma-informed behavioral-health services and broadens eligible providers and grantees for immigrants and other underserved communities — enabling quicker program start-up via fund reallocation — but does so at additional federal cost and with trade-offs including possible reduced resources for other programs, coordination limits with immigration/public-safety partners, administrative burdens, and political or oversight risks.
Immigrants, children, and other people in medically underserved communities gain substantially expanded access to trauma-informed and crisis behavioral-health care through mobile response teams, broadened provider definitions (including peer specialists), and targeted programs.
States, local governments, schools, FQHCs, Tribal and community-based organizations can receive new guidance, grants, and program resources to expand behavioral-health capacity in underserved areas.
The bill protects service seekers by preventing Office-collected data and actions from being transferred to DHS or immigration-enforcement agencies, reducing fear of enforcement and encouraging use of services.
Taxpayers and federal budgets are likely to face increased costs as new offices, grants, expanded provider reimbursements, and program expansions require additional funding.
Redirecting existing authorized funds to implement this Act could reduce resources available for the original programs those funds were intended for, cutting related services or priorities.
Allowing fund transfers that override prior statutory limitations may weaken Congressional and statutory fiscal controls and reduce external oversight of how funds are used.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Creates an HHS office to coordinate and fund trauma‑informed mental‑health services for communities affected by federal immigration enforcement and prohibits sharing its data with enforcement agencies.
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an office to assist communities in providing mental health services to individuals experiencing fear-based trauma related to immigration law enforcement actions taken by Federal agencies, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 18, 2026 by Luz M. Rivas · Last progress June 18, 2026
Creates a new Office of Immigrant Community Mental Health and Resilience inside HHS to plan, coordinate, and deliver trauma-informed mental health services for people and communities affected by federal immigration enforcement. The Office will run mobile response teams, issue emergency counseling vouchers, make grants to eligible entities, support culturally and linguistically competent outreach and training, provide guidance to states on Medicaid flexibility, collect and report data on public-health impacts, and is barred from sharing its information with immigration-enforcement agencies. The Act allows the Secretary to transfer specified previously enacted funds to carry out these activities.