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Budget Cuts Force MHMR Layoffs (Texas)
KAMR-TV story - "Texas Panhandle Mental Health Mental Retardation provides psychological programs for people with mental health challenges. They also provide groups homes and supportive services, such as job training, for people living with mental retardation. All very important services to the community -- but now they are dealing with effects of state budget cuts."  
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Region's mental health treatment on mend (Connecticut)
Norwich Bulletin story - "James O'Dea is encouraged by the early results of a new mental health service provided at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich. Some of his patients who suffer severe mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, depression and schizophrenia, are finding jobs thanks to counselors who now visit them at the hospital..."  
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County To Consider Mental Health Merger Options (North Carolina)
Daily Record story - "Harnett County Commissioners told County Manager Neil Emory to investigate the county’s options in complying with new state mental health laws, including the possibility of merging with another county to provide mental health care. At the local level, mental health authorities serving less than five counties or a county with a population of less than 200,000 will soon no longer qualify for the same level of funding from the state."  
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Concerns Over Mental Health Support (New Zealand)
Brief item at xtraMSN - "MidCentral District Health board members have expressed concerns about some aspects of a plan to support mental health patients in the community. At the moment MidCentral has 12 beds for sub-acute mental health patients who do not need acute care, but do need support. A MidCentral Board committee yesterday heard plans to close the unit, and fully support patients in the community as they come out of acute mental care."  
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State to close special unit for violent mental health patients (Massachusetts)
Story in the Concord Monitor (based on reporting in the Boston Globe) - "The Department of Mental Health is shutting down the state's only psychiatric unit designed for violent, severely mentally ill patients who have not committed a crime. The state hopes to save $2.2 million a year by closing the 11-bed ward at Taunton State Hospital, which treats about three dozen patients a year. ..."  
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