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Center for Behavioral Health

Advancing Access to Quality Mental Health & Addiction Care

We provide policy guidance, strategic advice, and federal advocacy services to patient groups, providers, employers, innovators, and payors to advance innovative solutions that expand access to high-quality, affordable mental health and addiction care nationwide.

Our Approach to Transforming Behavioral Health

Advancing Innovative Payment Reforms

Promoting Integration of Care

Aligning Health Information Technology and Infrastructure

Supporting Transparency and Equal Access and Coverage of Behavioral Health Services

Supporting Transparency and Equal Access and Coverage of Behavioral Health Services

Our Roadmap

Transforming the mental and behavioral health (MBH) system requires a bold, coordinated strategy grounded in data and driven by collective action. Supported by a robust Data Collaborative that integrates national delivery, cost data, and analytics, our approach focuses on three interconnected pillars that accelerate meaningful change.

Action for Progress channels our shared influence to drive the policy changes needed for lasting transformation. 

Invest for Progress, we direct resources and innovation toward solutions that generate the greatest social impact.

Together, these pillars form a strategic foundation for sustainable, equitable improvement in mental and behavioral health.

Action for Progress – (501c3 and 501c4) harnessing stakeholders to force policy change through strategy, events and lobbying, which enables system transformation and sustainability

Invest for Progress  – guiding investment, model innovation, and existing model support for social good and scalable impact, supported by data collaboratives to track longitudinal outcomes

About the Center

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Representative Kennedy leads the Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy at Healthsperien, advancing high-quality, affordable care through policy development, advocacy, and lobbying. He drives this work through the Center’s Action for Progress and Invest for Progress initiatives, partnering with stakeholders to transform the mental health and addiction care system.

“At the Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy at Healthsperien, we are driving change to build a future where everyone can access the mental health support they need to lead full and meaningful lives. We’re dismantling the separate and unequal treatment of mental health and addiction by advancing integrated care, closing coverage gaps, and pushing forward meaningful policy reforms. We’ve rolled up our sleeves and begun collaborating with colleagues across the stakeholder community to deliver better mental health and overall health care for all Americans.”

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Healthsperien, LLC, is a Washington, D.C.-based health care policy consulting firm focused on strategic, regulatory, legislative and implementation issues.