; (2) mental health is integral and essential to overall health outcomes and other development objectives; (3) mental health is an issue of critical and growing importance for United States development and humanitarian assistance programs that requires coordinated efforts to ensure that programming funded by the United States Government is evidence-based, culturally competent, and trauma-informed; (4) the relevant United States Government development and humanitarian assistance strategies should include a mental health and psychosocial support component; (5) the redesign of the United States Agency for International Development reflects the nexus between humanitarian and development interventions and should be applied to all mental health and psychosocial support efforts of United States development and humanitarian assistance programs; and (6) ongoing efforts to improve social service workforce development and local capacity building are essential to expanding mental health and psychosocial support activities across all United States development and humanitarian assistance programs. 3. Coordinator for mental health and psychosocial support Section 135 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2152f ) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following: (f) Coordinator for mental health and psychosocial support (1) In general The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is authorized to designate a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Coordinator (referred to in this section as the MHPSS Coordinator ). (2) Specific duties The duties of the MHPSS Coordinator shall include— (A) establishing and chairing the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Working Group authorized under section 4 of the Mental Health in International Development and Humanitarian Settings Act