Children’s Mental Health Accessibility Act is Just What we Need!

This seems like a dream come true for industry survivors and kids in need of mental health services outside of institutions. Two Senators proposed a bill called the Children's Mental Health Accessibility Act of 2012 to expand Medicaid Home Services to include youth that would otherwise need placement in a residential treatment facility's instead of a psychiatric hospital. As there are many teens who's issues do not require in patient care, for many years they were forced to go into some other facility as no government programs yet exist.

This bill will also cost taxpayers a lot less money if fewer people are housed in State Hospitals (where most survivors of youth residential centers eventually end up). And the government will have to spend less money too. More information about the bill can be read about here.