I make no secret that my family and I live in North Dakota. In our state, we have a citizen legislature that meets every other year for less than 90 days. In the last session, the House Appropriations Committee gutted program funding for the mentally ill. Yet, agreed to spend five million dollars to build…
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Letter to the Editor
UPDATE This letter was deemed too lengthy by the editors so we trimmed it down. You can read the revised letter here. ============================= I submitted the following to the editors of North Dakota’s four largest newspapers. ============================= Dear Editor The Schulte Report begins with the sentence “The North Dakota mental health and substance abuse system…
Give him to the State!
So I repeatedly was told that the way it is typically done for kids to get mental health care is for the parents to give up custody to the state. The doctor said, “you should give up custody to the state if you don’t think that you can handle him.” I said no. There is…