Letter: Funding for the new State Hospital - a consumers view point.

Letter: Funding for the new State Hospital - a consumers view point.

Real life experiences have become the catch phrase for behavioral health services. As a consumer with family members requiring mental health support for many decades and a professional in human services and education for almost 45 years I couldn’t agree more that lived experience provides powerful insight. Please keep that in mind as you read my comments written recently to Senate Appropriations. In 1995 I adopted my first child. I was not prepa…