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Advocates press for children’s mental‑health investments, cross‑disability waiver inclusion and reinstatement of FASD diagnostic funding
Summary
Disability and children’s mental‑health advocates asked the House human resources appropriations committee to restore funding for the UND FASD diagnostic center, to fully fund the Cross Disability Advisory Council (CDAC) work and to include children with serious emotional disorders in a cross‑disability waiver design.
Multiple witnesses asked the committee to strengthen state supports for children’s mental health and clarify the design and funding of a proposed cross‑disability waiver.
Carl Young, executive director of the Family Services Network, urged restoration of a prior legislative appropriation for the University of North Dakota’s Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Center and asked that funding be increased beyond the prior appropriation he cited ($350,458 in the last biennium). Young said UND’s center is the only consistent in‑state diagnostic clinic he relies on to obtain FASD diagnoses; he said wait times…
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