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Grand Isle mother urges Vermont to expand long-term addiction treatment after son's out-of-state stay
Summary
Carrie Kelly, a Grand Isle resident and mental-health advocate, told the Health & Welfare committee that lack of in-state long-term addiction treatment forced her son into an out-of-state program and left the family paying roughly $110,000 when Medicaid's $23,000 approval did not cover the provider's required payment. She urged investment in longer-term, in-state recovery options.
Carrie Kelly, a Grand Isle resident and mental-health advocate, told the Health & Welfare committee that gaps in Vermont's continuum of care forced her family to send her son to a long-term recovery program out of state and personally shoulder most of the cost.
"Mental health care is certainly health care," Kelly told the committee, describing parallel experiences raising twins: one received expected medical supports, while the other faced escalating mental-health and substance-use problems that schools and short-term crisis services could not resolve.
Kelly recounted that…
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