Report: Ohio cuts $90 million from mental health since 2008

A new report from the National Alliance on Mental Illness from that $1.6 billion in mental health services were cut between 2009 and 2011, with $25 million cut in Ohio (Source: “Mental-health services gutted,” Columbus Dispatch, Nov. 10, 2011).

However, NAMI Ohio officials say that when 2008 figures are included, the Ohio cuts total $90 million.
 “Increasingly, emergency rooms, homeless shelters and jails are struggling with the effects of people falling through the cracks due to a lack of needed mental-health services and supports,” according to the NAMI report (pdf, 16 pages).