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Columbus Dispatch…
State gives $5 million for mental-health services to head off violence
Gov. John Kasich says families in crisis need help
By Alan Johnson
Thursday January 10, 2013 - In the days following the Dec. 14 massacre
at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the phone lines lit up at the National
Alliance on Mental Illness Ohio. There were calls from parents worried
about their children struggling with mental illness and from others
concerned about the worsening crisis of untreated mental illness. Since
then, the list of families in crisis that the Ohio group is working
with has topped 1,000.
Now, some of those children and young adults facing mental-health
crises might be able to get help through a $5 million intervention
program established by Gov. John Kasich. The money will be used by
mental-health and developmental-disabilities agencies across the state
to help defuse potentially violent situations where a child poses a
danger to himself, his family or others.
Although the Ohio program was in the works before a gunman took the
lives of 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Conn., it was clearly
on the minds of the governor and other officials since then as they set
aside money to deal with volatile mental-health situations before they
make headlines.
Read the rest of the article at The Columbus Dispatch
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