School Mental Health Report Card (2025)
The Workforce Report: Bridging the Mental Health Care Gap (2026)
A Better Response: Improving America’s Mental Health Crisis System (2024)
Impact Report 2023-2024
Medicaid is Mental Health: State-by-State Impacts of Proposed Cuts (2025)
Improving Mental Health Care in America: The Access Report (2023)
State Legislative Guide for School Mental Health (2023)
Medicaid is the nation’s largest payer for mental health and substance use treatment, covering nearly one-third of adults with mental health conditions and one-fifth with substance use disorders. In July 2025, Congress passed H.R. 1, making major changes that could leave millions without access to mental healthcare. This guide offers Medicaid directors, policy leads, and eligibility staff operational guidance for using existing administrative data to identify individuals with substance use disorders or disabling mental conditions who qualify for an exemption from community engagement requirements.
Bridging the Mental Health Care Gap (March 2026)
A new report from Inseparable offers policymakers practical tools to build and sustain a stronger mental health workforce. It outlines actionable state-level strategies to expand capacity, strengthen the pipeline of new providers, support those already delivering care, and responsibly use data and technology. These solutions can help improve access and outcomes so people can get the care they need when they need it.
Medicaid is the nation’s largest payer for mental health and substance use treatment, covering nearly one-third of adults with mental health conditions and one-fifth with substance use disorders. In July 2025, Congress passed H.R. 1, making major changes that could leave millions without access to mental healthcare. This report provides states with the information they need to respond to these changes and protect access to care.
Medicaid pays for 25% of all mental healthcare and 40% of all substance use treatment in the United States, making it a critical part of the nation’s care system. Without Medicaid, many mental health and substance use conditions would go untreated, placing strain on individuals, families, communities, hospitals, and state budgets. This 50-state report details how proposed Medicaid cuts could impact access to mental health services nationwide.
A report from Count on Mothers and Inseparable reveals that most families struggle to access and afford children’s mental healthcare. More than half of mothers worry about their children’s mental health, and nearly one in four who seek help cannot get it due to cost or long wait times. Mothers identify expanding school-based supports, fixing insurance failures, and making the system easier to navigate as key solutions.
Recent data show that investments in school-based mental health supports are making a positive difference for young people. However, more work is needed to ensure every school has effective programs that promote mental well-being and provide services for students who need them. This report highlights the importance of continuing to expand and strengthen these supports.
States across the country have made significant progress in improving mental health crisis services in recent years, but more work remains. This report outlines policy solutions to ensure people in crisis receive the right services at the right time, youth and families have developmentally appropriate supports, and law enforcement involvement becomes the exception rather than the rule. The goal is a crisis response system that promotes recovery and support.
As advocates for hope, Inseparable works across the country to advance better mental health policy alongside our partners. This year, we achieved 57 decisive policy wins in 20 states. These victories have the potential to benefit more than 33 million people by expanding access to mental health services and supports.
The Access Report highlights effective policy solutions to address barriers that prevent people from receiving timely, appropriate, and affordable mental healthcare. It focuses on strategies to expand coverage, strengthen the mental health workforce, and promote prevention and early intervention. State policymakers have the power to advance these solutions and improve access to care.
The Hopeful Futures Campaign’s 2023 School Mental Health State Legislative Guide provides policymakers with practical recommendations and examples of recently enacted legislation to strengthen student mental health supports. It highlights policy strategies in three key areas: school mental health services, financing, and prevention and early intervention. These solutions can help states expand access to care and ensure students receive support where they spend much of their time—at school.
This guide from the Hopeful Futures Campaign highlights state policy solutions that help schools better support student mental health. It includes examples of enacted and model legislation across eight policy areas, including school mental health professionals, family-community partnerships, staff training, funding supports, school climate, and mental health education. Together, these policies outline a comprehensive approach to building school mental health systems that help students thrive.
The Hopeful Futures Campaign released state-specific report cards examining policies that support school mental health. These report cards evaluate states across eight key areas, including school mental health professionals, family-community partnerships, staff training, funding supports, well-being checks, healthy school climate, life skills, and mental health education. They provide a snapshot of how states are supporting student mental health.
Inseparable is in the hope business: We work tirelessly across the country to advance stronger mental health policies. In partnership with organizations and advocates nationwide, we continue to drive meaningful change. Our goal is to ensure people of all ages have access to the full range of mental health services and supports they need.
