Funding for Medicaid and support services for mental health has become available.
State Representative for District 29, Dustin Manwaring says they have been working all session to try and figure out where they can find funding to get some of those services restored.
He says on Monday night, the Millennium Fund Committee met and voted to put Millennium funds in for this fiscal year and next fiscal year to restore the ‘ACT’ team, which is the ‘Assertive Community Treatment’ program and some of their peer support services for $10 million dollars.
Manwaring says this is a huge amount to restore and continue these critical services to the community.
“There has been a lot of effort to try and figure out ways to do this. I think this is finally a realistic one because there is actually, like I said, a real funding source to do it and it’s been I think the thing on the top of a lot of our radar just coming into session because we just know the impacts that it will have and has had already on the community. I think there has been four deaths reported since December from shutting these services off around Idaho and so this is going to make a big step forward to getting that back going,” says Dustin Manwaring, State Representative, District 29.
Manwaring says he thinks JFAC will take the recommendation for a vote.