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County advisory groups urge protecting Medicaid, expanding peer supports and crisis services as mental-health needs rise
Summary
Advisory committees told Montgomery County—s Health and Human Services panel that recent expansions in crisis services are valuable but that threats to Medicaid funding and shortages in the behavioral health workforce put access at risk.
Multiple county advisory groups told the Health and Human Services Committee that mental and behavioral health services are under pressure from rising demand, workforce shortages, and threats to Medicaid and federal funding.
"We are deeply concerned that our most vulnerable populations may be the hardest hit by the federal changes to the Medicaid program," Libby Nelis, chair of the Mental Health Advisory Committee, said, urging that leaders protect funding and continue expanding the…
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