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 SCR-69 Behavioral Health Awareness Month.(2025-2026)

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SCR69:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Senate Concurrent Resolution

 No. 69

 CHAPTER 125

 Relative to Behavioral Health Awareness Month. 

 [
 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 July 03, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SCR 69, Weber Pierson.
 Behavioral Health Awareness Month.

This measure would recognize May 2025 as Behavioral Health Awareness Month in California.

Digest Key

 Fiscal Committee:
 NO 

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WHEREAS, Mental illness is a health condition that impacts our emotional, psychological, and social well-being and affects how individuals think, feel, and act, including how they handle stress, relate to others, and make choices; and

WHEREAS, Substance use disorder is the persistent use of drugs despite substantial harm and adverse consequences to self and others; and 

WHEREAS, Behavioral health is the term that recognizes the combination of mental illness and substance use disorder that often impacts an individual simultaneously; and

WHEREAS, Mental illness is one of the leading causes of disability in the United States, affecting one out of every four families and victimizing both the person with the illness and those persons who care for and love the person afflicted; and

WHEREAS, Serious mental illness costs Americans approximately $193,200,000,000 in lost earnings per year; and

WHEREAS, Fifty percent of all lifetime mental illness begins by 14 years of age, and 75 percent by 24 years of age; and

WHEREAS, Nearly 20 percent of children and youth between 3 and 17 years of age, inclusive, in the United States, develop a mental, emotional, developmental, or substance use disorder each year; and 

WHEREAS, In October 2021, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association came together to declare a national state of emergency in children’s mental health; and

WHEREAS, Former United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory in December of 2021 – a move reserved for the most urgent public health challenges—highlighting the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating impact on the already dire state of children’s mental health; and

WHEREAS, During the COVID-19 pandemic, 76 percent of LGBTQ+ high school students experienced persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness; and

WHEREAS, A report done by the Crisis Text Line of youth under 17 years of age that used the service showed that there was a 144-percent increase from 2010 with one in five adolescents 12 to 17 years of age, inclusive, that experienced a major depressive episode; and

WHEREAS, According to a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, suicide was the second leading cause of death in individuals 10 to 14 years of age, inclusive, and the third leading cause of death among individuals 15 to 24 years of age, inclusive, in 2021; and

WHEREAS, Lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual youth; and

WHEREAS, Children under 18 years of age from racial and ethnic minority groups were greater than 4.5 times more likely to experience the grief of losing a loved one during the pandemic compared to their non-Hispanic White peers; and

WHEREAS, In California, there are nearly 45,000 children in the foster care system, and many youth still exit care without the support and guidance they need to successfully transition; and

WHEREAS, An estimated 70 percent of all youth in the juvenile justice system have at least one mental health condition, and at least 20 percent live with severe mental illness that is usually undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, untreated, or ineffectively treated, thus leaving those detained in the juvenile justice system in a vulnerable condition; and

WHEREAS, An estimated 60 percent of youth in juvenile facilities met criteria for substance use disorder in the year before entering custody; and

WHEREAS, Fifty-seven million Americans have a mental disorder in any given year, but fewer than 40 percent of adults living with a mental illness, and slightly more than one-half of youth 8 to 15 years of age, inclusive, with a mental illness, received mental health services in the last year; a