Video & Transcript Research : 'community programs'
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AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE AND HOUSE May 21st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We're a community mental health center and a grant-funded certified community behavioral health clinic
- , and this program has created entities in every state and almost every community called continuums of
- One thing they can do is establish the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic program statewide
- level and at the community program level.
- level and at the community program level.
Summary:
The committee first heard a presentation on homelessness in Arkansas, with speakers from law enforcement, behavioral health, homeless service providers, and policy groups. Presenters argued that Arkansas should focus more on treatment, accountability, better data, and stronger coordination among providers, and they highlighted the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) model as a way to expand Medicaid-reimbursed crisis, mental health, substance use, jail-based, and homeless outreach services. Testimony emphasized that Arkansas has relatively low overall homelessness numbers but a significant unsheltered population with serious mental illness or substance use disorders, and several members asked about sex offender tracking, provider accountability, statewide coordination, and whether the state could apply for federal funding or a statewide continuum of care arrangement. Speakers also discussed workforce supports, family homelessness, and the need for more transparent reporting and outcomes-based funding.
The committee then reviewed several Department of Energy and Department of Health/Board of Nursing rules. DEQ sought to raise the threshold for commission review of certain post-closure cleanup expenditures from $50,000 to $2 million to match Act 791 of 2025, and members asked about financial assurance and oversight; the rule was reviewed without objection. The Board of Nursing presented multiple rule changes implementing recent acts, including adding fees for dialysis patient care technician registration, updating contact-information requirements, clarifying APRN authority to sign death certificates and prescribe certain durable medical equipment, implementing delegation of certain nursing tasks to unlicensed workers, adding a declaratory-order process, revising certified medication assistant training and insulin-injection authority, and conforming independent-practice rules for clinical nurse specialists. Each nursing rule was reviewed without objection after brief questions.
In closing remarks, Senator Irvin announced that UAMS had completed its National Cancer Institute designation submission, calling it an important step for the state. The committee then adjourned.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- for the zero-cost textbook program to a community college district to contract for the establishment
- It's not government-run necessarily; the governor's office administers the program, but the program will
- related to the HAP program.
- SB 105 includes critical investments in the community air protection program, air district level clean
- We must expand these programs to protect our immigrant communities from mass deportations and ensure
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Health and Select Committee on Native American Affairs May 12th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- In most cases, we ran at a financial loss, keeping the programs alive so we could keep our communities
- These efforts are creating a more coordinated, client-centered, community-focused program focused on
- We need flexibility that allows tribes to design programs rooted in our traditions and community needs
- Accessing care through community-based events at Indian health programs has been essential.
- and for programming in each community.
Summary:
The joint oversight hearing focused on AB 988 implementation and suicide prevention in California Indian communities. Members and the chairs emphasized that 988 was intended to create a behavioral health crisis system with “someone to call, someone to come, and somewhere to go,” and then turned to the disproportionate suicide burden facing Native youth and the need for culturally responsive outreach and services. Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan, the bill’s author, said the law has already saved lives but argued that key parts of the system—especially interoperability between 911 and 988, mobile crisis dispatch, and adequate funding—are not yet working as intended.
The first panel of stakeholders and call center leaders largely said California’s 988 network is underfunded and not fully integrated. Speakers from the Steinberg Institute and 988 California said call, text, and chat demand has grown sharply, but staffing and funding have not kept pace, leaving text/chat answer rates far below the state’s goals and sending many contacts to out-of-state backup centers. They also said mobile crisis teams are not being dispatched through 988 statewide, and that the state’s current governance and funding structure is too fragmented. WellSpace Health and other providers described 988 as the “front door” to crisis care, urged more stable funding, and recommended broader use of the CCBHC model to support mobile crisis and behavioral health infrastructure.
San Joaquin County offered a local success story, describing a countywide crisis continuum that links 988, mobile crisis, behavioral health access lines, and follow-up services through warm handoffs and coordinated outreach. County officials said the model has reduced reliance on emergency departments and involuntary holds, and they noted that local partnerships and repeated community meetings were key to implementation. Members asked about staffing, tribal outreach, and how to make the system more measurable and interoperable; panelists said staffing projections should be based on actual call volume and contact length, and that tribal-specific outreach has often depended on temporary grant funding.
State officials from CalHHS and DHCS then described the five-year implementation plan, the roles of multiple agencies, and current performance data. They said California’s 988 system has handled more than 74,000 contacts in a recent month, with in-state answer rates of 87% for calls and lower rates for chats and texts, and that unanswered contacts are routed to backup centers. They highlighted training efforts, LGBTQ+ competency work after the end of the federal “Press 3” option, and efforts to improve reimbursement for mobile crisis services. No formal votes or committee actions were taken during the hearing.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- But our community-based organizations who provide out-of-school time programming are doing it year-round
- And when we limit the funding of out-of-school time, there are programs that no longer exist in communities
- And for some of our communities—actually all of them—if we don't fund these programs, these students.
- funding, they're choosing the appropriate programs for their communities. ...they're choosing the appropriate
- programs for their communities, and they're choosing the appropriate scale so that ideally the money
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Jun 27th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- For this particular program.
- programs.
- So there are different types of programs for communities.
- I also, if you have them, LGBTQIA community and veterans community, let's stare down there.
- Uh, the DNE waiver and some other programs were replaced with the community benefit which provides home
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- . programs. programs.
- This last year, just because of demand on the program, we did have to cap several communities for what
- , we did have to cap on the program, we did have to cap several<00:14:35.000>
communities <00:14 - These programs are especially important for smaller communities that don't have the economies of scale
- These programs are especially important for smaller communities that don't have the economies of scale
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 03/27/25
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- Programs like the Rondo Community Land Trust help keep housing affordable for first-time and historically
- I also serve as the chair of the Minnesota Community Land Trust Coalition, a coalition of 14 community
- We were also the first community land trust in the state of Minnesota to apply the community land trust
- Rondo Community Land Trust has been piloting the home buyer initiative program for some time now.
- <01:13:21.199>
or <01:13:21.520>programs, totality of uh the program or programs, totality
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, February 24, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- s disaster loan program assists communities after ... CLOSE OUT THE RECOMMENDATION.
- S DISASTER LOAN PROGRAM ASSISTS COMMUNITIES AFTER Disasters.
- It will hurt my community where thousands of people benefit from The programs, but it will impact every
- My community.
- program that was canceled, the X-33 program.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Education Postsecondary Feb 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- be new programs, burgeoning programs.
- We perdomo opportunities and 7 programs serving communities in Dixie Taylor.
- program.
- to see the students embrace the programs, getting gauge your ability to pivot to the needs of the community
- We need to develop the programs that the business and industry's me and the opportunities that the community
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Slide 24 provides a list of programs administered by our community services division.
- And so under the community-based program, those individuals, the three titles, which do the same thing
- . programs as well.
- Programs. No ma'am.
- I'm going to move to our last program, starting on slide 18. This is the prevention program.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/12/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- That was the whole purpose the county program... program Aid and the demands put from the program Aid
- We have seen programs close.
- <01:25:47.159>
uh <01:25:47.280>of programs uh of programs uh of 45<01:25:49.040>programs - The programs include PCA Choice, the Community First Services and Supports budget model, the Consumer
- Directed Community Supports program, and the consumer support grant.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Additionally, there are exciting new programs like the UCLA teacher education programs, STEM plus C3,
- We started our first program in 2003 with one cohort of 18 students in the Spanish program and today
- It's important to note that CTA believes it's in the interest of small communities and schools and programs
- program if we can't offer programs that are aligned with regional labor market needs.
- Summer Assistance Program.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force (7-24-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- And so the key program is the programs.
- <00:41:34.000>
as <00:41:34.240>community community starts to gather as community community - And then operate in community preparedness and mitigation programs.
- Community action agencies provide crucial programs and resources that address the unique needs of their
- But every day in our local communities, they operate everything from Head Start programs to senior citizens
Summary:
The Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force met with a quorum, adopted the minutes from the previous meeting, and heard a presentation from Western Kentucky University’s Disaster Science Operations Center. WKU described its multidisciplinary disaster science effort, including meteorology, emergency management, the Kentucky State Climate Center, the Kentucky Mesonet, and the Disaster Science Operations Center, which was created in 2021 and serves as an operational hub for forecasting, emergency planning, crisis management, training, and decision support. Speakers emphasized applied learning, student field work, partnerships with industry and event venues, and a five-year NSF/UK-led research project focused on weather hazards, disaster preparedness, and building a statewide disaster database to improve mitigation and resilience. Members asked about flooding, the relationship to EKU’s program, Tennessee’s capabilities, and the timeline and goals for the research project; WKU said the data collection is underway and that the evidence suggests tornado risk is shifting east and occurring more at night.
A WKU graduate student also described the value of hands-on storm-chasing and operational forecasting experience, saying it helped prepare her for work in forecasting and emergency management. Members asked about her motivation for joining the program and about the practical realities of storm chasing. The discussion also touched on whether Kentucky’s tornado risk is shifting east; WKU said the evidence from tornado observations and other studies points in that direction, with added concern about nighttime events and communicating warnings to vulnerable communities.
The task force then heard from Amy Shaquinn of the Mayfield Graves County Long-Term Recovery Group, who outlined the county-level recovery process after the 2021 tornadoes. She said Kentucky ranks among the top states for federally declared disasters, has seen a high number of tornadoes in recent years, and also faces major flood risk and earthquake concerns along the New Madrid fault. Shaquinn stressed the distinction between immediate response and long-term recovery, explaining that response covers rescue, cleanup, temporary housing, and short-term assistance, while recovery is the longer effort to restore survivors to safe, sanitary, and secure housing through local long-term recovery groups. She said community-led recovery is essential and that preparedness and mitigation follow once immediate recovery needs are addressed.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Health and Human Services (02/10/2025)
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- cost in fact our 10 nonprofit Community cost in fact our 10 nonprofit Community healthc<00:20:24.799
- Medicaid revenue of the 10 Community Medicaid revenue of the 10 Community Mental<00:20:40.679>
- to support the work of our community to support the work of our community mental<00:22:51.360>
- We use them to fund programs like Medicaid expansion or the granted Advantage program.
- We use them to fund programs like Medicaid expansion or the granted Advantage program.
- to support the work of our community to support the work of our community mental<00:22:51.360>
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Health Services (2-5-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a very critical program for our hospitals and for access to care in rural communities.
- Some of those programs include improvements to the general surgery program, an orthopedic surgery program
- of those programs include improvements to the general surgery program, an orthopedic surgery program,
- The community programs that we offer as a result of the savings from the 340B federal program include
- The community programs that we offer as a result of the savings from the 340B federal program include
Keywords:
00:00 Introductions
02:46 Roll Call
03:35 Discussion on SB 14
46:13 Vote on SB 14
48:07 Discussion on SB 17
50:38 Vote on SB 17, 958, all
Summary:
The Senate Standing Committee on Health Services opened with the chair welcoming several new members and outlining session rules: hearings would start and end on time, the committee would limit the number of bills heard each meeting, prioritize bills heard during the interim, and generally avoid using the consent calendar except in extreme circumstances. The committee then briefly considered administrative regulations, which were treated as approved if members had no questions.
The main item was Senate Bill 14, a measure addressing the 340B drug discount program. The chair said the bill had already passed the Senate in a prior session and had been heard in interim, so he did not present it again. He described the bill as prohibiting drug manufacturers from discriminating against 340B covered entities by refusing 340B pricing when the same drug is offered at that price in the state. He also said the committee would not debate the federal 340B program itself, but would hear testimony on the bill.
Hospital leaders and Kentucky Hospital Association representatives testified in support, arguing that 340B savings are essential to rural hospitals, oncology services, transportation support, chronic care, addiction recovery, and new service lines such as chemotherapy and hepatitis treatment. They said the program helps keep care close to home and that manufacturer restrictions on contract pharmacies have reduced access and cost hospitals millions. Opponents from BIO Kentucky and the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions argued the bill would expand federal law beyond Congress’s intent, create administrative burdens, and not lower patient out-of-pocket costs. The chair repeatedly pressed opponents to address why Kentucky should be denied the same 340B pricing available in other states. No vote on the bill was taken in the portion provided.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Our program officers—we have four program officers—keep in touch.
- But I wanted to give you some data from the operating support program, the one program that we've had
- They have to know whether that's a geographic community or if it's a community of interest.
- programming.
- When I ask people what kind of program they would like within their community, they would like projects
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Education Study Sep 3rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- program.
- Our businesses in the community are hiring our interns directly out of their programs.
- The McKinley Academy program is an early college program.
- , technical programs, and community school frameworks, we received about $2.4 million.
- So we've embarked on a community school program in several of our schools, and we're taking advantage
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Appropriations Apr 16th, 2025 at 08:30 am
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- In the community, the community we're particularly thinking about is Watford City, primarily.
- The issue for mid-sized communities like Watford City and smaller communities is you can't attract a
- the smaller communities.
- by community, what makes affordable.
- directly to that program.
Summary:
The committee met to work on three remaining policy bills. On HB 2225, members discussed an amendment reducing the Strategic Investment and Improvements Fund housing grant program from $50 million to $30 million, lowering the maximum grant amount, and clarifying that existing lots can qualify after a certificate of occupancy is issued so the program can help communities like Watford City and Williston use prepared lots. Members also discussed the matching requirements, tribal eligibility, and how Commerce would score applications to ensure the money lowers lot costs rather than being absorbed by political subdivisions. The amendment and the bill as amended both passed 22-0, and Representative Murphy was assigned to carry the bill.
The committee then took up SB 2200, which funds the 988 crisis hotline. After discussion, members agreed to strip out the proposed phone-line charge approach and instead provide a $500,000 appropriation from the Community Health Care Trust Fund, consistent with the Senate version, to supplement existing funding for increased staffing and texting-related demand. The amendment and the bill as amended both passed 22-0, and Representative Nelson will carry the bill.
Finally, the committee considered SB 2342, which creates a value-added milk processing facility incentive program. The amendment reduced the proposed line of credit from $10 million to $5 million, with the program intended to support dairy-related processing infrastructure such as utilities, roads, water, wastewater, and rail access. Members noted the program would be administered through the Agriculture Diversification and Development Committee, could potentially support one or multiple facilities, and sunsets June 30, 2027. The amendment and the bill as amended both passed 22-0, and Representative Brandenburg will carry the bill. The committee then adjourned, planning to reconvene the next morning to take up additional bills and budget adjustments.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Nov 18th, 2025
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- We educate law enforcement within our community, hospitals within our community.
- We educate law enforcement within our community, hospitals within our community.
- So there is communication that is happening. I think if there's specific communication that Ms.
- They might run the legal program. They might run a transitional housing program.
- But I struggle with our program as we interact with individuals But I struggle with our program as we
Summary:
The committee held a panel discussion on Florida’s domestic violence system, focusing on how state and federally funded services are coordinated, the role of the Florida Partnership to End Domestic Violence (FPEDV), the Florida Domestic Violence Collaborative, DCF, and certified domestic violence centers. Members reviewed the post-2020 restructuring after the dissolution of FCADV, the current hotline, legal services, training, and technical assistance contracts, and the Legislature’s recent work on lethality assessments under SB 1224. Panelists also described prevention, shelter, counseling, child advocacy, and legal support services, along with the statewide network of 41 certified centers serving all 67 counties.
Testimony highlighted both collaboration and tension. FPEDV and Women in Distress described overlapping training and technical assistance roles, but FPEDV said its relationship with DCF has been difficult and at times obstructive, while DCF said communication and coordination are ongoing. Women in Distress and other providers emphasized the importance of direct services, the statewide hotline, injunction assistance, child welfare co-located advocates, and prevention programs. Several members asked about funding flows, certification, and whether the current structure is sufficient for rural counties; witnesses said federal FVPSA funds are formula-based, DCF contracts directly with centers, and rural programs face staffing and fundraising challenges that limit beds and services.
A major portion of the discussion centered on the lethality assessment work group and implementation of the new statewide tool. FDLE explained that the work group concluded the Maryland model was copyrighted and costly to replicate exactly, so Florida adopted a statutory assessment that is not evidence-based in the same way, with training available online and 46 of about 400 law enforcement agencies having completed it so far. Senators raised concerns about multiple assessments, redacted police reports, and whether the tool will be useful without better coordination and data collection. Witnesses also discussed rising domestic violence, teen dating violence, and strangulation cases, with providers reporting increased demand, full shelters, and greater use of hotels and mobile crisis responses. No formal votes or actions were taken.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Mar 24th, 2025
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Transcript Highlights:
- in Texas communities.
- The the technical assistance Program equips local governments and communities with the tools to identify
- Um, now, going to the boot program, the Bringing Online Opportunities to Texas program, we certainly
- So we had over 100 applications for that program. Um, now this program was a county level.
- Yeah, I mean the funding of that program, are there other pro as you look at the programs you're working