Expand the mental health workforce.

Lauren Underwood · Illinois · Democratic

policy impact 3.00 specificity 3.00 extraction confidence 93%

Occurrences

Lauren continues to advance legislation in order to: Expand the mental health workforce

Commits to pursue legislation that grows the mental health workforce.

Healthcare Costs - Underwood for Congress
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introduced the Child Suicide Prevention Act to make sure health care providers are equipped with life-saving training and interventions backed by data

Underwood said she introduced legislation to equip current and future health care professionals with training and interventions for youth suicide prevention.

Underwood, Schrier, Schatz Introduce Legislation to Address Youth Mental Health Crisis | Representative Lauren Underwood
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Support moms with maternal mental health conditions and substance use disorders.

The Momnibus would expand support for maternal mental health and substance use care.

Underwood, Adams, Booker Reintroduce Momnibus Bills to End America’s Maternal Health Crisis | Representative Lauren Underwood
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Evidence

Recognizing the strain of the pandemic on young people, Lauren secured a 700% increase in school-based mental health care. Additionally, Lauren brought over $1M to IL-14 colleges to train school-based mental health providers. ... Lauren continues to advance legislation in order to: Expand the mental health workforce.

The campaign site explicitly claims Underwood secured major school-based mental health funding and is continuing to pursue legislation to expand the mental health workforce.

partial same_term A for effort

Healthcare Costs - Underwood for Congress
campaign · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 91%

The Child Suicide Prevention and Lethal Means Safety Act would provide funding for evidence-based training on youth suicide prevention to current and future health care professionals. Additionally, the bill creates a centralized database of resources where at-risk youth and their families, medical and nursing schools, and health care professionals can turn to for best practices in suicide prevention.

Underwood introduced legislation that would train current and future health care professionals, a concrete step toward expanding the mental health workforce pipeline, though the bill was not shown here to have become law.

partial same_term A for effort

Underwood, Schrier, Schatz Introduce Legislation to Address Youth Mental Health Crisis | Representative Lauren Underwood
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Representative Lauren Underwood ... introduced the Child Suicide Prevention Act, legislation that would address suicide among children and young adults by providing evidence-based training to current and future health care professionals.

A later Underwood-led mental health bill again focuses on training current and future providers, reinforcing sustained legislative effort on workforce expansion.

partial same_term A for effort

Underwood, Schrier, Schatz Introduce Legislation to Address Youth Mental Health Crisis | Representative Lauren Underwood
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 88%

Representative Lauren Underwood, Representative Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08), and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced the Child Suicide Prevention Act, legislation that would address suicide among children and young adults by providing evidence-based training to current and future health care professionals.

Within the same term, Underwood introduced legislation aimed at training current and future health care professionals, which is a concrete workforce-expansion effort related to mental health.

partial same_term A for effort

Underwood, Schrier, Schatz Introduce Legislation to Address Youth Mental Health Crisis | Representative Lauren Underwood
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 92%

Underwood recently secured $13 million in Community Project Funding in FY 2026, and has secured more than $53 million in Community Project Funding for IL-14 since 2021... Project Title: Oswego School District Student Success & Workforce Development Project

Recent appropriations activity shows continued same-term effort on education/workforce-related investments, but this does not itself prove the broader mental health workforce promise was fully delivered.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Underwood Announces More Than $30 Million for Local Priorities Selected for Community Project Funding | Representative Lauren Underwood
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Lauren Underwood is a registered nurse with a BSN in Nursing and a Masters of Nursing and Public Health.

This source confirms Underwood’s health-professions background, but it does not provide direct evidence of mental health workforce delivery or legislative enactment.

unresolved same_term

Underwood Calls for Public Action on Trump Administration’s Proposed Rule Threatening Nursing Profession | Representative Lauren Underwood
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Assessments

partial same_term A for effort

Underwood has materially advanced the goal through repeated same-term legislative efforts and funding for school-based mental health training and provider pipelines, including legislation to train current and future health care professionals. However, the evidence does not show that the broader promise to expand the mental health workforce was fully enacted or completed, so this is partial credit rather than full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 93%

partial same_term A for effort

Evidence shows Underwood materially worked toward expanding the mental health workforce, including introducing legislation to train current and future health care professionals in youth suicide prevention and highlighting funding increases for school-based mental health care and provider training. However, the record provided does not show that a broad mental health workforce expansion policy she promised was fully enacted or completed. The strongest support is for meaningful same-term progress and concrete efforts, not full delivery of the overall promise.

provider openai · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 90%

partial same_term A for effort

Underwood took concrete same-term actions related to expanding the mental health workforce, including securing school-based mental health funding, directing over $1 million to IL-14 colleges to train school-based mental health providers, and introducing legislation to train current and future health care professionals. However, the evidence does not show that the broader promised outcome of expanding the mental health workforce was fully achieved or enacted at scale, so this is best rated as partial rather than delivered.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 89%