Donohue: Providers' too eager on Cuomo mental health plan

ALBANY, NY (07/16/2013)(readMedia)-- "It's disappointing that members of the mental health services community would be so quick to embrace the vague and superficial outline put forth by the Cuomo administration. New York has never followed through with promised reinvestment for adequate mental health services over the past generation. Instead, too many individuals and families have been left without the help they need and local officials and taxpayers have had to deal with the human wreckage at their own expense.

There is no evidence in the state's latest sketchy proposal that promised changes will meet the needs of real people and communities.

Until New Yorkers see a detailed plan, healthy skepticism from the mental health community would be more appropriate than a pep rally."

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