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Opinion: Make Your Voice Heard to Help Rebuild Montana’s Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Systems
No Montana community is untouched by the mental health crisis. Suicide. Addiction. Loneliness. The struggle to find mental health services or appropriate supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Patients receiving care in places that aren’t best for them. The list of challenges facing our communities is long and years in the making, and the time for setting that list aside is over.
State looks to tackle mental health issues
No Montana community is untouched by the mental health crisis. Suicide. Addiction. Loneliness. The struggle to find mental health services or appropriate supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Patients receiving care in places that aren’t best for them. The list of challenges facing our communities is long and years in the making, and the time for setting that list aside is over. This spring, Gov.
How to rebuild the behavorial health system? Tell us.
No Montana community is untouched by the mental health crisis. Suicide. Addiction. Loneliness. The struggle to find mental health services or appropriate supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Patients receiving care in places that aren’t best for them. The list of challenges facing our communities is long and years in the making, and the time for setting that list aside is over.
Help rebuild Montana’s behavioral health and developmental disabilities systems
No Montana community is untouched by the mental health crisis. Suicide. Addiction. Loneliness. The struggle to find mental health services or appropriate supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Patients receiving care in places that aren’t best for them. The list of challenges facing our communities is long and years in the making, and the time for setting that list aside is over. This spring, Gov.
Make your voice heard to help rebuild Montana’s behavioral health and developmental disabilities systems
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Bob Keenan, Charlie Brereton and John Esp: Make your voice heard to help rebuild Montana's Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Systems
No Montana community is untouched by the mental health crisis. Suicide. Addiction. Loneliness. The struggle to find mental health services or appropriate supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Patients receiving care in places that aren’t best for them. The list of challenges facing our communities is long and years in the making, and the time for setting that list aside is over. This spring, Gov.
Help rebuild Montana's behavioral, mental health services
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Help rebuild Montana’s behavioral health and developmental disabilities systems
No Montana community is untouched by the mental health crisis. Suicide. Addiction. Loneliness. The struggle to find mental health services or appropriate supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Patients receiving care in places that aren’t best for them. kAm%96 =:DE @7 492==6?86D 724:?8 @FC 4@>>F?:E:6D :D =@?8 2?5 J62CD :? E96 >2<:?8[ 2?5 E96 E:>6 7@C D6EE:?8 E92E =:DE 2D:56 :D @G6C]k^Am kAm%9:D DAC:?8[ v@G6C?@C vC68 v:2?7@CE6 2?5 E96 |@?E2?2 {68:D=2EFC6 :?G6DE65 Sb__ >:==:@?
Bob Keenan, Charlie Brereton and John Esp: Make your voice heard to help rebuild Montana's Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Systems
No Montana community is untouched by the mental health crisis. Suicide. Addiction. Loneliness. The struggle to find mental health services or appropriate supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Patients receiving care in places that aren’t best for them. The list of challenges facing our communities is long and years in the making, and the time for setting that list aside is over.
Make Your Voice Heard to Help Rebuild Montana’s Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Systems
Guest Column For the foreseeable future, we will hold public meetings every six to eight weeks across Montana to consider reforms By Bob Keenan, Charlie Brereton & John Esp November 7, 2023 No Montana community is untouched by the mental health crisis. Suicide. Addiction. Loneliness. The struggle to find mental health services or appropriate supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Patients receiving care in places that aren’t best for them.
Guest column: Help rebuild Montana's behavioral health and developmental disabilities systems
No Montana community is untouched by the mental health crisis. Suicide. Addiction. Loneliness. The struggle to find mental health services or appropriate supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Patients receiving care in places that aren’t best for them. The list of challenges facing our communities is long and years in the making, and the time for setting that list aside is over.
Op-Ed: Make Your Voice Heard to Help Rebuild Montana's Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Systems
By Rep. Bob Keenan, DPHHS Director Charlie Brereton, Sen. John Esp No Montana community is untouched by the mental health crisis. Suicide. Addiction. Loneliness. The struggle to find mental health services or appropriate supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. Patients receiving care in places that aren't best for them. The list of challenges facing our communities is long and years in the making, and the time for setting that list aside is over.
Braxton Mitchell for House District 3
Opinion | Letter Montana will be proud of his service By Bob Keenan // Oct 13, 2020 Braxton Mitchell is just what we all need to represent HD 3 in the Montana House. A young principled conservative leader. His peers respect him because he listens, learns and leads. He has been studying, organizing, and participating to best represent his soon to be constituents. He is prepared to step into leadership in due course. HD3, Columbia Falls, Flathead County and Montana will be proud of his service.
Noland Has a Proven Track Record
Opinion | Letter He understands the issues By Bob Keenan // May 9, 2020 The national political landscape has been hard to stomach for the past three years. The statewide political landscape has been stunted by the health pandemic. We have a primary election fast approaching and it is certainly understandable that we have all been preoccupied by daily challenges and are not prepared to make decisions as we have in past elections.
Tighten income verification for Medicaid
Medicaid was established for low-income children, pregnant women, the disabled and seniors. In 2015, Montana’s Medicaid program added adults without children, costing taxpayers another $800 million a year. But are recipients really low-income? There’s a huge problem in some of the states that “expanded” Medicaid, as Montana did.
Are the Right People on Medicaid?
Opinion | Letter DPHHS needs to tighten its income verification procedures By Bob Keenan and Tom Burnett // Sep 1, 2019 Medicaid was established for low-income children, pregnant women, the disabled, and seniors. In 2015 Montana’s Medicaid program added adults without children, costing taxpayers another $800 million a year. But are recipients really low-income? There’s a huge problem in some of the states that “expanded” Medicaid, as Montana did.
Changing House rules will weaken checks, balances
As former House speakers and Senate presidents of the Montana Legislature, we question the wisdom of making significant changes to the rules of operation in the Montana House. Currently, there is a group of legislators trying to change the House rules. One of the proposed changes would allow a simple majority (51 members) to “blast” a bill out of committee and on to the House floor. Their logic is that the Montana Senate operates under simple majority rules so the House should follow suit.
I-185 won't fund Medicare or traditional Medicaid
Montana voters are being asked to make a major policy decision this year that will have long-term effects on the state budget and the tax burden of all Montanans.
I-185 Won’t Fund Medicare or Traditional Medicaid
Montana voters are being asked to make a major policy decision this year that will have long-term effects on the state budget and the tax burden of all Montanans. I’m referring to I-185, the ballot initiative that would make permanent an expensive entitlement program called Medicaid Expansion. As voters prepare to make this serious choice about the direction of state spending, it’s important to understand exactly which programs, and people, are affected.
Support the Lake County Conservation District’s Proposal
Have we reached a new normal for air quality in Western Montana? Our forest management over the past 30 years has led us to the point where “moderate” air quality days are good days. The disastrous fire of 1910 should be a lesson learned, not an inevitability for our not too distant future. We are surrounded by forests that are tinderbox dry despite having had a wet winter and spring. For those concerned with the grizzly bear and lynx, don’t forget that they are breathing this unhealthy air as well.
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