Vice President Joe Biden is expected announce a $100 million plan to improve mental health services in lieu of the upcoming one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre.

Biden will make the announcement Tuesday at a meeting with Connecticut families who lost loved ones during the Dec. 14 shooting in which 20 first graders and six educators were killed.

The White House released a statement stating that the $100 million will be made available "to increase access to mental health services and improve mental health facilities as part of the Administration's ongoing commitment to help individuals experiencing mental health problems," reports USA Today.

Mental health advocates will also participate in the meeting, stated a White House official according to CNN. The $100 million plan is a part of recently announced Obama administration mental health push that also requires insurance companies to be more inclusive of covering mental illnesses.

Half of the money will come through President Obama's signature health care overhaul, the Affordable Care Act, to help community centers provide more mental health services. The other $50 million will be funded by the Department of Agriculture and help finance rural mental health facilities.

In addition, back in November, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced her department would begin enforcing the 2008 Mental Health Parity Act, which forces insurers to treat mental illnesses the same as physical sicknesses.

Mental health care reform was one of the iniatatives that Biden's task force focused on in order to curb gun violence and massive shootings. Together, he and President Obama announced 23 executive actions designed to curb shootings, however, legislative action failed on Capitol Hill, including a bill that would have enforced universal background checks on gun sales.  The measure failed to garner enough support in the Senate, although nearly 90 percent of Americans backed it.