Budget Primer Health Justice Hillary Dong Reports Georgia Housing Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2025 August 8, 2024 / August 8, 2024 by Hillary Dong The 20-Year View This year, on our 20th anniversary, GBPI is including for the first time a feature on housing to underscore the historical and continuing critical role that housing plays in the health of Georgians every single day. In the past 20 years, access to housing has become more difficult. In 2002, 42.7% of […] Read more » Access to Care Behavioral Health Budget Analysis Community Health Developmental Disabilities Disease Prevention federal funding FY 2024 Health Budget General Fund health coverage Health Priorities Health Spending Low-Income Georgians medicaid Medicaid Expansion mental health Pathways to Coverage Public Health Retention State Funds Substance Use Disorders Workforce Recruitment
Budget Primer Health Justice Leah Chan Reports Georgia Health Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2025 August 8, 2024 / August 8, 2024 by Leah Chan The 20-Year View In 2004-2005, Georgia had the 8th highest uninsured rated in the nation, and in 2022, the 3rd highest. Over the last 20 years, GBPI has continued to advocate for health care access achieving incremental but meaningful wins like the 2023 elimination of the 5-year Medicaid waiting period for pregnant women and children […] Read more » Access to Care Behavioral Health Budget Analysis Community Health Developmental Disabilities Disease Prevention federal funding FY 2024 Health Budget General Fund health coverage Health Priorities Health Spending Low-Income Georgians medicaid Medicaid Expansion mental health Pathways to Coverage Public Health Retention State Funds Substance Use Disorders Workforce Recruitment
K-12 Education Press Press Releases & Statements PRESS RELEASE: Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) Unveils Insightful Report Titled “What is Chronic Absenteeism” January 9, 2024 by Lauren Frazier GEORGIA – The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) announces the release of its comprehensive report, “What is Chronic Absenteeism,” shedding light on the multifaceted factors contributing to K-12 absenteeism. The report, spearheaded by GBPI’s Education Director, Dr. Stephen Owens, delves into crucial aspects such as school transportation, mental health, the lingering impacts of the […] Read more » Budget Surplus early childhood education Fiscal Policy Georgia Economy Georgia schools georgia-budget k-12 education K-12 schools mental health revenue estimates School Buses state investments student poverty student transportation Surplus Funds transparency Undesignated Reserves
Budget Primer Health Justice Leah Chan Reports Georgia Health Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2024 June 27, 2023 / July 5, 2023 by Leah Chan Georgia’s 2024 Health Budget The Departments of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, Community Health and Public Health are the primary agencies focused on the state’s health care and public health systems. Georgia plans to provide $6.7 billion in state funds for these three agencies in the fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget year, or about 21 […] Read more » Access to Care Behavioral Health Budget Analysis Community Health Developmental Disabilities Disease Prevention federal funding FY 2024 Health Budget General Fund health coverage Health Priorities Health Spending Low-Income Georgians medicaid Medicaid Expansion mental health Pathways to Coverage Public Health Retention State Funds Substance Use Disorders Workforce Recruitment
Blog Coronavirus K-12 Education People Powered Prosperity Stephen Owens Crises Demand Counselors: Pandemic Underscores Need for More School Counselors, Mental Health Professionals April 22, 2020 / November 17, 2020 by Stephen Owens Key Takeaways School closures triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that students are not receiving the mental health support afforded to them when they are physically present at school. Many students now at home are exposed to increased trauma and will return with greater mental health needs. The state should leverage new federal funding and […] Read more » coronavirus counselors COVID-19 K-12 mental health
Health Justice Laura Harker Reports Overview: 2021 Fiscal Year Budget for Georgia’s Department of Community Health February 5, 2020 / October 13, 2026 by Laura Harker Download PDF Gov. Brian Kemp proposed a 2021 budget of $3.15 billion in state general funds for the Department of Community Health. Although Gov. Kemp instructed agencies to reduce their budgets by 4 percent for amended fiscal year (AFY) 2020 and 6 percent for fiscal year (FY) 2021, Medicaid spending was excluded from the cuts […] Read more » Budget Community Health health mental health
Health Justice Laura Harker Reports Overview: Georgia’s 2021 Fiscal Year Budget for Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities February 4, 2020 / October 13, 2026 by Laura Harker | 1 Comment on Overview: Georgia’s 2021 Fiscal Year Budget for Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Download PDF Gov. Kemp’s budget proposal for the 2021 fiscal year cuts state general funds for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities by $24.3 million from FY 2020. These cuts required the agency to prioritize the growing need for psychiatric crisis services while having to reduce funding for general behavioral health services and […] Read more » Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Budget health mental health
Blog Health Justice Health Insurance Would Help Matt and Other Georgians Recover From Mental Illness December 14, 2018 / May 19, 2020 by Eric Strunz Matt Hiltman lowered his shoulder as his horse galloped down the windswept field, kicking up clods of earth in its wake. His steel armor gleamed in the bright sun, and the audience on the sidelines roared with anticipation. Two horses and two riders fast approached each other on a collision course. The crowd fell silent […] Read more » coverage-gap medicaid Medicaid Expansion mental health
Blog Community Impact Health Justice Laura Harker Rome Listening Tour Provides Earful on Community Mental Health Problems May 23, 2018 / May 19, 2020 by Laura Harker Talk to people around Rome, Ga. for a while and the conversation often shifts to the lingering stresses that plague the community after a state mental health facility closed seven years ago. Homelessness. Drug abuse. People with mental disabilities stuck in jail cells. The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute team visited Rome earlier this month […] Read more » Behavioral Health Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities health medicaid mental health Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital People-Powered Prosperity Rome
Health Justice Laura Harker Reports Fight Substance Abuse, Improve Mental Health Care to Help More Georgians December 13, 2017 / March 15, 2021 by Laura Harker Improving the prevention and treatment of mental health conditions and substance abuse disorders is critical to ensure the well-being of all Georgians. State lawmakers made significant progress in recent years to improve behavioral health treatment for core challenges of mental health and drug addiction. But Georgia still is home to one of the highest uninsured […] Read more » Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities health medicaid Medicaid Expansion mental health opioid substance abuse
