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Resident urges county to keep marijuana-tax and liquor‑tax funds for mental‑health services, citing gaps in regional beds and outpatient care
Summary
Long Lake Township resident Kate Dahlstrom told commissioners the county lacks intermediate and residential mental‑health services and urged that local cannabis and liquor‑tax revenues not be diverted from behavioral‑health uses.
At the meeting’s first public comment period, Kate Dahlstrom of Long Lake Township urged Grand Traverse County commissioners to prioritize long‑term mental‑health resources beyond crisis‑center services.
Dahlstrom reviewed a continuum of mental‑health care that runs from outpatient services to intensive outpatient (IOP), partial hospitalization (PHP), residential recovery and inpatient psychiatric beds. She…
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