Mary Ruiz
Mary Ruiz
access goes health mental per services spending surprised
I was surprised that we did as well as we did. Per capita spending for mental health has been going down for more than a decade. When per capita spending goes down, patients' access to mental health services suffers.
message mixed sending terrible
It's a terrible mixed message that we're sending to kids.
addressing concerns harassed homeless providing serious
This isn't a solution. It just makes it worse. If we are serious about addressing concerns of residents harassed by panhandlers and others, then we need to get serious about providing homeless services.
bush education happens hoping issue mental middle pull
Education had the same issue a while back and Gov. Bush said we are going to pull up our ranking to the middle and we did. I am hoping the same happens for mental health.
found saturday
We found it when we got up Saturday morning. We've never had anything like this happen.