Senate Resolution to Designate May 10, 2025, as AANHPI Mental Health Day

• •The Senate supports designating May 10, 2025, as 'National Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Mental Health Day'.
• •Approximately 65.3 percent of the 2,900,000 AANHPI individuals meeting criteria for a mental health problem do not receive treatment.
• •Between 2018 and 2023, suicide was the leading cause of death for AANHPI youth aged 10 to 24.
• •The resolution encourages federal, state, and local health agencies to adopt laws and policies to improve mental health service utilization for AANHPI communities and other communities of color.
• •The resolution calls for the disaggregation of AANHPI population data to better understand subpopulation mental health needs.
• •The resolution identifies a need to increase the number of AANHPI mental health providers and paraprofessionals.
• •The resolution acknowledges that historical discrimination and racial violence contribute to trauma and stress within the AANHPI community.

The resolution serves as a formal federal acknowledgment of mental health challenges within the AANHPI community, encouraging federal, state, and local agencies to adopt policies that improve mental health service access for these populations.

Patterns POLISCOPE noticed across the record. These are observations to investigate, not conclusions.