Webinar: Advocacy Update – Into the Great Unknown (Continued!)
2025 has been a year that has turned health policy on its head, and we are still not finished.
Between reconciliation, spending bills, and executive orders, we are now in an era unlike any we have ever seen. We have seen alterations not only to Medicaid and attempted alterations to the Department of Health & Human services, but to the entire grant-making process as well.
The future of federal grants for behavioral health are in limbo, while programs that focus on minority health or harm reduction face outright elimination.
This webinar will walk you through the current state of play and bring you up to the minute news on policy developments that impact behavioral health.
A reminder that NBHAP members get a monthly advocacy update from Andrew, as well as access to our Legal Repository and State FAQs.
Continuing Education Information
This webinar will provide 1 CEU. For more general information about CEs, go here.
CEs will only be available free to those who attend the live webinar. Attendance will be monitored. If you register but do not attend, you can purchase CE access after the webinar is recorded. NBHAP members get it for free.
In order to complete the CE requirements, attendees must complete the online exam. Login access to NBHAP is free regardless of membership. Contact us if you don't have a login.
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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