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This article is a sign that our Human Service Agency is cratered in NH!

http://sentinelsource.com/news/local/a-break-...

A break in the system

Lack of transitional assistance keeps the mentally ill in limbo

Posted: Friday, November 25, 2011 12:15 pm | Updated: 11:45 am, Fri Nov 25, 2011.
By Christina Braccio Sentinel Staff | 0 comments

Massive state budget cuts to health care funding have crippled the state’s mental health facilities, leaving thousands shut out of a system that once provided the help they need.
A recent investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice found that New Hampshire’s mental health system is in crisis. A lack of community resources has contributed to over-institutionalizing patients and serious unmet needs outside the hospital that often lead to homelessness and incarceration, the agency says.

The millions of dollars in reductions at the state level, intended to help minimize the deficit, has led to the near elimination of services for mental health patients transitioning to independent living, such as short-stay and long-stay assisted housing facilities.

In response, many patients seeking alternatives to hospitalization are being forced into already overstressed systems.

Many resort to extended inpatient hospital stays, frequent emergency room visits, homeless shelters, and, in some cases, patients end up in jail or prison.
A broken rung in the service ladder

Patients who are involuntarily admitted to the New Hampshire Hospital, the only state-operated psychiatric hospital, need to follow a specific path to recovery to achieve lasting results, according to Eric C. Hedin, the recovery services manager at Monadnock Family Services, a nonprofit community mental health agency that serves Cheshire County and western Hillsborough County.

This NYT's article is a sign that our court and NH Justice system is cratered....

You know, why did so many good people standby and allow this to happen...why aren't all the good people in NH raising the roof and shaking our fist at Concord with protest right now...

Why are all the people bad to the core in NH?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/us/budget-c...

November 26, 2011
Critics Say Budget Cuts for Courts Risk Rights
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
NASHUA, N.H.— For years, state courts across the nation have been scraping by on the support they get from state and local government budgets. Since the financial crisis of 2008, those budgets have been tightened in new ways that are being felt in courthouses and communities across the country.

“The justice system’s funding has been decreasing in constant dollars for at least two decades,” said David Boies, co-chairman of a commission formed by the American Bar Association to study court budget issues.“We are now at the point where funding failures are not merely causing inconvenience, annoyances and burdens; the current funding failures are resulting in the failure to deliver basic justice.”

Wayne and Kristy Haggie of Nashua, N.H., would agree. In June last year, they persuaded a judge to grant them visitation rights with their two children. Ms. Haggie’s parents had assumed child-raising duties during a financial rough patch for the Haggies, and then refused to give the toddlers back. With the judge’s ruling, the Haggies assumed that they would be seeing the children again immediately and regaining full custody before long. They borrowed $500 from Mr. Haggie’s relatives for a trip to Wal-Mart to buy the toddlers clothes and supplies.

“We got everything set,” Mr. Haggie said.“And then we sat there.”

The judge’s order was not mailed for three months — an eternity in the life of a child. The paperwork emerged from the courthouse only after the Haggies’ lawyer, Kirk Simoneau, joined with other New Hampshire lawyers to sue the state over budget issues and court delays. Between that delay and others while setting up visitation arrangements, the Haggies say, they have lost precious bonding time and been deprived of important moments.

In states like New Hampshire, there is a real impact from court budget cuts, said John T. Broderick, a former chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and now dean of the University of New Hampshire Law School.“I’ve been a lawyer and judge in New Hampshire for 38 years — I’ve never seen it like this.”

You know what i say about you dead to the core NH residents...who just piddles through your useless little lives with never taking your eyes off your shoes...

Not nuts enough!

The good old days!

mike mulligan wrote:

You know what i say about you dead to the core NH residents...who just piddles through your useless little lives with never taking your eyes off your shoes...

and we know what mikey's eye's are on-
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/brattleboro-v...

WTF: I was bitching about seeing panties i wasn't supposed to see? How many men you know would do that?

There would be less of that if i had a good job, hint!