GIMBHI’s daily mental health update — 9/9/26

🏛️ Syra Health and HealthSync selected for CMS ACCESS model to scale digital behavioral health (Syra Health) — 09/03/26
TL;DR: Carmel, IN-based Syra Health and HealthSync will use Syra’s Syrenity digital behavioral health platform to support Medicare patient referrals under CMS’s ACCESS chronic care model.

🔧 ATAP and ERPHealth launch America’s first labor-led, outcomes-based behavioral health network (ERPHealth, PR Newswire) — 09/01/26
TL;DR: The Allied Trades Assistance Program and ERPHealth launched a High Performance Network using third-party validated outcomes measurement to give organized labor more control over behavioral health quality and value.

🏛️ HHS awards $77M to strengthen substance use prevention, treatment, and mental health services (HHS Press Office) — 08/31/26
TL;DR: SAMHSA distributed $77M on Overdose Awareness Day, including $22.2M for substance use prevention, $23.6M for treatment/recovery, $21.8M for community mental health, and $9.4M for 988 crisis follow-up and adult suicide prevention.

⚖️ California Legislature passes SB 903 to ban AI therapy bots from providing psychotherapy (Senator Steve Padilla, California State Senate) — 08/31/26
TL;DR: SB 903 heads to Gov. Newsom after passing with bipartisan support, banning AI chatbots from offering or advertising therapy and requiring licensed professionals to maintain oversight of any AI use in mental health care.