Mixed bag for mental-health care
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- March
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While a proposal to provide 3.2 percent cost-of-living pay hikes to mental-health workers is expected to be included in the budget, a number of proposed increases in the governor’s budget will be cut by 50 percent, mental-health advocates said today. (Budget talks are down to the wire in Albany—the deadline is midnight).
They include:
—Expanding the ambulatory care system and removing barriers to specialty mental-health treatment for children ($5 million);
—Expanding supported housing ($1.1 million);
—Increasing the number of efficiency apartment beds for people with mental illness ($145 million in capital funding);
—Managing the care of people with co-occurring disorders, such as mental illness and addiction or mental retardation ($1 million)
The Assembly partially restored a cut to state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities providers, and the Senate funded a number of local service initiatives and $150,000 for geriatric mental-health care, according to the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
