The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) described massive state budget cuts in mental health care as a national crisis in a Congressional briefing today sponsored by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD). NAMI is also preparing a comprehensive report on the national mental health crisis. At the briefing, NAMI focused only on the cuts in Alabama, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Washington.
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