Posted on Sep 22, 2015
Is cutting mental health budgets in today's environment the right direction?
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To recommend the same service with considerably less funds sounds a little crazy to me.
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That will just put more with mental health issues on the streets without proper medication and/or monitoring. That sounds like a very bad move.
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PFC Calvin Barger
I don't believe that it would necessarily effect people not receiving the proper medication however it would greatly effect the monitoring. There are a lot of companies that rely on state and federal funding to pay for psychologists and behavior specialist that develop behavior support plans in an attempt to decrease physically aggressive or sexually inappropriate behavior. That alone could effect communities in a large way. It would also effect the adult day training centers that individuals go to, to be supported in achieving everyday living skills. Less activities, more chaos, and more behaviors. It would be setting the whole mental heath department up for failure.
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I don't think cutting any health budgets is the right idea. Then again, budget reductions has to come from somewhere.
The specifics of this instance are a little hazy, but it does look like there are sufficient funds to cover regional mental health for the state. So it wasn't so much that mental health will go unfunded, but that it could be cut without a loss of services. Long-term though I doubt that would be the effect.
The specifics of this instance are a little hazy, but it does look like there are sufficient funds to cover regional mental health for the state. So it wasn't so much that mental health will go unfunded, but that it could be cut without a loss of services. Long-term though I doubt that would be the effect.
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Sgt Spencer Sikder
Just seems $100+ million short is a bit much to absorb. Curiously though, I wonder if that will cause the clinicians to move into more lucrative positions with let's say the federal government?
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