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Proclamation 10739

National Mental Health Awareness Month, 2024

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In simple terms

This proclamation designates May 2024 as National Mental Health Awareness Month, recognizing Americans living with mental health conditions and mental health professionals. It describes past Biden administration actions to expand mental health access—including the 988 crisis line, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics, and proposed mental health parity rules—but issues no new binding directives or deadlines.

Federal Register Open PDF 89 FR 36661

Record & deadlines

  1. Signed

    Signed by the President

  2. FR published

    Published in the Federal Register · 89 FR 36661

    Federal Register PDF

Key directives

No discrete directives extracted.

What to expect

Immediate

  • Proclamation of May 2024 as National Mental Health Awareness Month

Near term (90d)

—

Long term

—

Risks & tensions

  • Document describes past and proposed actions but creates no new obligations; language on 'working to' and 'proposed' indicates aspirational rather than binding commitments
  • Call for congressional action on social media regulation highlights limits of unilateral executive authority
Proclamation 10739: National Mental Health Awareness Month, 2024 · Executive Orders