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Committee advances grant to map mental-health services for children; advocates urge focus on unhoused youth
Summary
The Appropriations Committee favorably released A4970, a grant-funded study to map child mental-health resources statewide. Witnesses urged attention to children experiencing homelessness and highlighted long wait times and transportation barriers that limit access.
The Assembly Appropriations Committee on Oct. 24 favorably released Assembly Bill 4970, which provides a grant to study and map mental-health care resources for children across New Jersey.
Raissa Rubin Stankiewicz of the New Jersey Coalition to End Homelessness urged the committee to ensure the study—s stakeholder group includes shelter-service providers and families with lived experience. "Unhoused children face higher rates of behavioral health needs," she said, adding that a…
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