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Recent Trends, Challenges and Issues in Funding Public Mental Health Services in the US
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Legislator says closing mental health institutes won't save money (Iowa)
December 10 Mt. Pleasant News story on comments by state Rep. Dave Heaton (R-Mt. Pleasant) to describe a recommendation by a state panel to close two of the four state mental health institutes as a cost-cutting measure.  
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Report faults children’s mental-health care (Oregon)
A December 13 stiry in the Statesman Journal (Salem OR) on a report released last Thursday by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, which indicates that "the state is failing to provide federally mandated services to children with mental illnesses." One of the report's authors, the story notes, said that "Oregon’s current approach to children’s mental-health needs is extremely expensive and damaging to families." The full report, "Assessing Child Mental Health Services in the Oregon Health Plan" is available in Adobe Acrobat format from the Bazelon web site.  
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