NHeLP works to ensure that quality mental health services and supports are readily accessible where and when people need them. All too often, low-income children and adults cannot access quality mental health services in their own communities. NHeLP works to dismantle barriers to care and advocates for robust coverage of and timely access to effective home and community-based mental health services and supports.
We believe that children and adults with mental health disabilities deserve access to community living and that children belong with families, and therefore fight against segregation of people with mental health disabilities in residential facilities, psychiatric hospitals, and other institutions. NHeLP’s unique approach to mental health advocacy uses the benefits guaranteed by Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the rights ensured by the ADA and other civil rights laws, to promote access to quality, community-based services and supports for low-income individuals.
