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Committee sends bill funding a study on barriers to youth mental-health care to the floor
Summary
Lawmakers approved a bill creating a grant to study factors preventing Utah children and youth from accessing mental-health care. Sponsors said the work will identify barriers for ages roughly 3–17 and guide future policy; committee members asked that an open RFP process be considered.
The committee approved a bill to fund research into barriers preventing children from accessing mental-health care in Utah. Representative Barlow outlined the proposal as a study grant to identify factors causing the gap between diagnosis and receipt of treatment for children ages roughly 3 to 17.
Barlow cited state research showing a substantial share of children with clinically diagnosed conditions do not receive treatment: "58 percent of the Utah children ages 3 to 17 with a clinically diagnosed mental or…
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