Mental Health and COVID-19

The mental health impact of COVID-19 is dire among health care workers who are providing care to COVID patients, and among a wide range of other essential front line workers who are providing services such as grocery store employees, transportation and pharmacy workers, and first responders. Unfortunately, the United States does not have the capacity to meet this sudden need for mental health services after decades of failing to provide adequate funding for state mental health systems.

Mental Health and COVID-19

The mental health impact of COVID-19 is dire among health care workers who are providing care to COVID patients, and among a wide range of other essential front line workers who are providing services such as grocery store employees, transportation and pharmacy workers, and first responders. Unfortunately, the United States does not have the capacity to meet this sudden need for mental health services after decades of failing to provide adequate funding for state mental health systems.

States are already unable to meet even a fraction of their needs for mental health care under normal circumstances. This site will collect information on the mental health dimension of the COVID-19 crisis and tie it to previous work conducted by Claude Pepper Center staff on the history and current status of the country’s grievously underdeveloped mental health care capacities through staff commentaries.

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