Did you know that in North Dakota, it can cost $225,000.00 to have a child in a psychiatric residential treatment facility (prtf) for one year? Seriously. This cost doesn’t include medical services. It doesn’t include clothing. Pretty incredible isn’t it? In the coming weeks, Fighting for Answers will be checking with facilities in other states…
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monsters.
I can’t fathom what people who are involved in these mass shootings are dealing with. In truth, I pray that I never know that feeling. That I never join the gun violence club. What makes these people so angry that they would walk into an area and start shooting people? I don’t know what the…
Now is the time – For a National Conversation about Mental Health
Now is the time for a National Conversation regarding mental health. With our congressional leaders in Washington, D.C., we may have difficulty getting on the dais. Why? Because an individual presenting testimony to any committee regarding Mental Health, may not always speak to the same platform as varying members of Congress. What does that mean?…