Mental Health Officials Brace for "Sequester"
By: Bill Palmer
Updated: March 6, 2013
March 6th, 2013
Officials at the Mental Health Association of Northwestern Pennsylvania are bracing for the fallout from those automatic spending cuts, called the "sequester."
Unless lawmakers in Washington can come up with a plan, the across the board budget cuts will have an impact on hundreds of thousands of jobs and cut vital services for children, seniors, men and women in uniform and people with mental illness.
Bill Grove is CEO of the Mental Health Association of North Western Pennsylvania and says the hard part is not being able to plan on how the cuts in funding will affect the Mental Health Association.
According to Mental Health America, states have already cut mental health budgets by a combined 4 billion dollars over the past three years.
Officials at the Mental Health Association of Northwestern Pennsylvania are bracing for the fallout from those automatic spending cuts, called the "sequester."
Unless lawmakers in Washington can come up with a plan, the across the board budget cuts will have an impact on hundreds of thousands of jobs and cut vital services for children, seniors, men and women in uniform and people with mental illness.
Bill Grove is CEO of the Mental Health Association of North Western Pennsylvania and says the hard part is not being able to plan on how the cuts in funding will affect the Mental Health Association.
According to Mental Health America, states have already cut mental health budgets by a combined 4 billion dollars over the past three years.
