This ad developed by PEF's Public Relations Department, appeared in The Legislative Gazette during March.
Don’t tear apart a mentally ill person’s home advantage.
New York state’s “shared staff”
workers give their clients with mental illness expert
care through home visits, day treatment and case
management.
They also provide emergency room screening services to
local mental health programs — often in counties
that need additional financial resources to deliver these
services.
But a state budget plan to phase out the state’s
funding for the shared staff program threatens to rip
apart the bonds that help the mentally ill recover, and
keeps them close to home.
These highly-trained nurses, social workers and other
professional caregivers are a vital component of the
state’s mental health system.
We must ensure that the state keeps these high-quality
services by demanding the proper state budget funding
continues. Let’s keep giving the mentally ill the
care they need and deserve.
Keep the shared staffing program in one piece.
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