HF 2691

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 03/24/2025 03:03 p.m.

A bill for an act
relating to human services; appropriating money for a grant to the African American
Child Wellness Institute.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin APPROPRIATIONS; AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILD WELLNESS
INSTITUTE.
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new text begin $5,250,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $5,512,500 in fiscal year 2027 are appropriated from
the general fund to the commissioner of human services for a grant to the African American
Child Wellness Institute, a culturally specific African American mental health service
provider that is a licensed community mental health center specializing in services for
African American children and families of all ages from birth to end of life. The grant must
be used to support the center in enhancing their capacity to offer culturally specific,
comprehensive, trauma-informed, practice- and evidence-based, person- and family-centered
mental health and substance use disorder services; supervision and training; and care
coordination regardless of ability to pay or place of residence. $5,250,000 is added to the
general fund base for this appropriation in fiscal year 2028, and $5,512,500 is added to the
base for this appropriation in fiscal year 2029 and thereafter.
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