Advocates for mental health are applauding the passage of a new law which will expand mental health support for survivors of natural disasters and terrorist attacks, like the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The Post-Disaster Mental Health Response Act allows FEMA to provide mental health services for survivors of not just "major disaster declarations," like the COVID-19 pandemic, but events considered smaller "emergency declarations" which took place in Boston. Manya Chylinski, a survivor of the marathon bombing, said she felt invisible as she searched for help. ...

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