First Responder Behavioral Health Access Act

Behavioral health support for first responders

This bill would add emergency response providers and telecommunicators (SOC 43-5031) to a mental and behavioral health training and placement program. It would create a three-year pilot where HHS would award grants to eligible entities to help those providers' behavioral health needs. Grants would fund embedding licensed clinicians, peer-to-peer counseling programs, training, and program oversight at emergency response providers. The bill would authorize $10,000,000 per year for FY2027 through FY2029 and require a report to Congress within one year after the pilot ends.