Industry Update: PRWORA Impacts for Behavioral Health Providers

August 5, 2025

See below. It appears that the NYS Council Webinar we hosted on July 18 for all members is being repeated for a national audience by our colleagues at Feldesman, LLP at the end of August. 

A recording of the July, 2025 Webinar we hosted as well as the PowerPoint slide deck used by the attorneys at Feldesman is available on our Website at:  www.nyscouncil.org.  You can access this information as well as many additional resources from past events we’ve hosted by going to our homepage and toggling to the Events section of our site.  (Ultimately you want to land in the Archived Events section.)  

To access this information you will need a UserName and Password.  Don’t have credentials?  Write to Cindy Levernois, Director of Communications and Member Support at:  cindy@nyscouncil.org  and she will send you everything you need to access this area of our site.

  New Restrictions on Providing Federal Public Benefits to Noncitizens: Immediate Impacts for Behavioral Health Providers

August 20 at 3 p.m. ET

In July, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice  reinterpreting “Federal public benefit” and including many behavioral health programs as meeting the new, broader definition.

Programs funded under Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics, Community Mental Health Services Block Grants, and Substance Use Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Services Block Grants, including certain programs administered by SAMHSA, are now subject to the reinterpretation.

What does this change mean for your organization?What is the nonprofit exemption?Who can receive services?What other programs do you operate that now fall under the revised definition?What do you need to do differently now and in the future?Has anything changed since the notice was issued?

Join Feldesman attorneys, including an immigration attorney, on Wednesday, August 20 at 3 p.m. ET, for an industry update webinar to explain the change, review developments and answer your questions.

Register