Webinar: Advocacy Update: Caution: Explosives!
- Date: November 18, 2026
- Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am
(see when that is in your time zone)- Presenter: Andrew Kessler
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: free to attend live: registration required
- Registration: Register for the Webinar
After the midterm elections, the end of the current Congress and the beginning of the next one will take place in a highly charged political environment, to say the least. Many challenges lie in wait, and behavioral health policy will certainly be impacted.
The most pressing business is the federal budget, which is responsible for funding federal agencies such as SAMHSA, the CDC, and the National Institutes of Health. Congress has until December 11 to find a solution, or at least a way to extend the deadline in order to avoid a government shutdown, which would almost certainly impact grants that go to states and communities.
The other issue looming large on the horizon is Medicaid, and a change in congressional party control will almost certainly lead to clashes over policies that have been put in place over the course of the last two years. These include Medicaid work requirements, State Directed Payments, and other issues that could have an extreme impact on SUD services around the country.
This webinar, only two weeks after the midterm elections, will examine the current policy challenges facing the behavioral health community, and how the results will have an impact – for better or for worse (or both…).
Continuing Education Information
This webinar does NOT provide CEs. For more general information about CEs, go here.
However, it is eligible towards the requirements for renewing the C-ATM/CAMS.
In order to complete the C-ATM requirements, you must already have the C-ATM and complete the online exam. (Login access to NBHAP is free regardless of membership. Contact us if you don’t have a login.)
Sponsor
Slingshot Solutions is one of NBHAP’s Associate Members.
They specialize in advocacy for organizations concerned with behavioral health policies and regulations. Whether it’s working with Congress, federal agencies, or coalitions, Slingshot Solutions engages on behalf of its clients to assure their voice is heard when policy is formulated.
Presenter
Andrew Kessler
Andrew Kessler, JD, (he/him) is the founder and principal of Slingshot Solutions LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in behavioral health policy.
With 30 years of policy experience—20 of it in behavioral health—Kessler is a fixture in circles that advocate for substance use disorder treatment, prevention, recovery, and research. He collaborates frequently with congressional offices, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, SAMHSA, and other federal actors. Kessler has written legislation and report language passed by both the House and Senate and has presented orally before such bodies as the Scientific Management Review Board, the National Conference on Addictive Disorders, and the College on Problems of Drug Dependence.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1993 from Washington University in St. Louis. In 1999, he graduated from American University’s Washington College of Law, where he received multiple awards and recognition for his legal analysis and oral arguments. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with his wife, two children, and his beagle.
You can hear him on the 13th episode of our podcast, Destination Change.
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