Visit our legal aid directory to find legal help, or chat with a LiveHelp representative to help you navigate the site. The Internal Revenue Service is significantly delayed in processing and approving nonprofit filings, so the documents available here may not be the last one an organization has filed. ProPublica will issue new tax forms as soon as they are released by the IRS. New York Friends and Family Substance Use and Mental Health Parity Working Group. In 2016, 1,700 New Yorkers committed suicide and more than 1,200 overdosed on opioids. In New York City, heroin overdoses killed four times as many people as murders. However, treatment rates remain low, despite the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (Parity Act), which requires Medicaid Managed Care and most private insurers to cover mental health and addiction disorders comparable to conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. The majority of families and users seeking treatment for drug use and mental illness are unaware that the parity law exists, let alone how to claim their right to coverage. In March 2018, NYHealth awarded a grant to the New York City Legal Action Center (LAC) to help launch an initiative to ensure that New Yorkers with substance use disorders and mental illness can get the treatment they need when they need it, as required by the Parity Act. Sign up to receive ProPublica`s biggest stories straight to your inbox. If this organization has submitted an amended statement, this may not be reflected in the following data.
Duplicate download links may be due to new submissions or changes to an organization`s original declaration. Extracted financial data is not available for this tax period, but Form 990 documents can be downloaded. If you have used our data or website for your research or reports, add a source and link to Nonprofit Explorer in your article or publication and let us know. The IRS Form 990 is an annual information return that most organizations claiming federal tax-exempt status must file annually. Read the IRS instructions for Form 990. As part of this grant, LAC organized and supported the New York Friends and Family Parity Working Group, which includes individuals, families and peer support organizations directly affected by mental illness and substance use disorders. The task force was part of the Parity@10 Compliance Campaign, a 10-state campaign to enforce the Parity Act, led by LAC and other national organizations. The New York Friends and Family Parity Working Group briefed consumer and family advocates on gender protection and rights (see toolkit here); coordinated a targeted advocacy initiative between consumer networks; and urged the adoption of complementary guidelines and/or improvements to regulatory oversight that strengthen existing gender legislation. LAC also investigated and compiled issues related to parity compliance and helped file parity and other complaints about access to treatment with regulatory bodies. To assess the impact of the working group, LAC collected and measured data to determine whether the project had contributed to increased compliance rates and reduced the number of complaints.
To share the knowledge gained, LAC developed a communications and advocacy strategy using social media, consumer stories and other educational materials for different audiences, including policy makers, advocates and consumers.
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