March 27, 2010
About 70,000 adults and children in Illinois would lose access to state-funded mental health services and another 4,000 would be displaced from community-based housing under Gov. Quinn's proposed budget, advocates for the mentally ill warned Friday.
More than $90 million in proposed cuts to the Department of Human Services would also leave the state without the infrastructure needed to start moving psychiatric patients from nursing homes to community housing, as agreed to in a recent legal settlement, mental health advocates say.
For more, see http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/health/2125775,CST-NWS-mental27x.article.
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