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Cutting Funding for Mental Health Is Costly
I just read an interesting article by Brandi Grissom first published in The Texas Tribune entitled “Mental Health Cuts Would Strain Local Texas Jails.” This article does an excellent job of calling attention to two of the main problems with cost-cutting plans that target community-based mental health treatment – people suffer while funding cuts cost [...]
Posted on February 25, 2011 Filed Under Advocacy | 5 Comments
Social Security and Disability Resource Center
One of our readers recommended that we include a link to the Social Security and Disability Resource Center. We checked it out, and it seems to contain some valuable content. Here’s a description of the site from our reader: The Social Security and Disability Resource Center website provides answers to questions concerning how to apply [...]
Posted on February 18, 2011 Filed Under Disability, Social Security | 1 Comment
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