Dear Friends,
This week brought heart-breaking news. ADMHS is
proposing massive cuts that are bound to flood our
streets with even more untreated, mentally ill people.
Please visit noozhawk.com, a local Internet news
service for an article on this topic.
Also, as a reminder, Shattered Dreams, A Story of the
Streets, is available at Borders, Chaucer’s and The
Book Den, as well as on Amazon.com and iUniverse.com.
Ironically, one of the main characters in the novel is
a mentally ill, homeless woman existing on the streets
in a community much like our own. The mentally ill
homeless look to us as allies in their struggle for
existence. We must do whatever we can.
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Ken
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1 comment:
As a concerned mother of a former addict, I know the plight of the mentally ill and I thank you for your efforts. We need state and federal legislation to create funding to address this problem. While we can and should pressure them--Counties may be limited in their ability to meet the challenge. One idea is convert existing buildings and farms into treatment and residential facilities. Maybe we should cut back on jails and do treatment and prevention instead.
Remember, Prop 99 Tobacco Tax? Starting in 1990, it created hundreds of millions of dollars, via referendum-- to reduce tobacco related diseases. Something similar could happen with Mental Illness in California, if we mobilized and wrote an initiative for a tax --let's say on pharmaceuticals?
My fear is people and programs will die needlessly, IF foreign wars for resources continue to drain away money and attention. We must stop our leaders from spending TRILLIONS on wars that further global harm and environment instability.
Please join our effort to STOP THE WARS that take our attention from the important problems we must address.
Join us in Santa Barbara on March 15, for an entire day of peace events!
Best Wishes-
Sharon Rose
The People's Coalition
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