Treatment and Homelessness Housing Integration Act of 2024

(1) in subsection (a) by inserting and behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorder treatment after supportive services; and

(2) by adding at the end the following:

Behavioral health, mental health, and substance use disorder treatment shall, to the degree practicable, be provided to qualified program participants and may include—

(A) crisis behavioral health services;

(B) screening, assessment, and diagnosis;

(C) outpatient mental health and substance use services;

(D) targeted case management services;

(E) psychiatric rehabilitation services;

(F) in the case of veterans, intensive, community-based mental healthcare; and

(G) other treatments provided through a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic program.

In this subsection, the term qualified participant means an individual or family member that—

(A) receives supportive housing, including Rapid Re-Housing, Permanent Supportive Housing, or any other type of housing assistance through the Continuum of Care Program;

(B) has qualified for supportive housing through receipt of Supplemental Security Income or Social Security Disability Income benefits; or

(C) is considered a homeless individual with a disability as defined in section 401.

Each recipient or project sponsor shall, to the degree practicable, with respect to each homeless individual or homeless family residing in a project that provides supportive housing, integrate treatment for qualified participants with a regional Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic to provide behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorder treatment for such individual or family if—

(1) there is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic within 50 miles of the project and such clinic serves participants of the Continuum of Care Program; and

(2) the participant qualified to reside in the project through the receipt of benefits paid through the Supplemental Security Income program or the Social Security Disability Insurance program.

Not less than 2 percent of the amounts made available to carry out this subtitle each year shall be used to facilitate integration with Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics with respect to behavioral health, mental health, substance use disorder treatment for individuals and families who qualify for supportive housing through Supplemental Security Income or the Social Security Disability Insurance program.

Out the amounts set aside in paragraph (1), the Secretary may provide bonuses or other incentives to projects located in areas where there are high numbers of homeless individuals, as reported in the most recent point in time count for the region in which the project is located.

With respect to the bonuses and incentives described in subparagraph (A), the Secretary may provide $500,000 or more for each 1,000 homeless individuals in the area in which the project is located.

Notwithstanding clause (i), the Secretary may not provide—

(I) more than $2,000,000 to any 1 project; or

(II) more than $5,000,000 in the aggregate to projects in a single region.

The requirements described in this subsection may not be applied if the application for assistance under this subtitle that includes the provision of outpatient health services also describes a plan to provide such services through a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic.