Chicago – Non -profit organizations that work with Chicago residents are interested in recovery for drug use, some programs may fade or close after the Trump administration suddenly reduced public health grants.
In intersections of discounts, there are one billion dollars in the Department of Narcotics and Mental Ownership Services to combat excessive deaths in identifying records and increasing mental health diagnoses since the epidemic. Up to 28 million dollars, allocated to 77 community organizations in Illinois, according to a statement on Wednesday from the Ministry of Humanitarian Services in Illinois.
“At this time, due to the uncertainty in the availability of federal funds in this future, we warn that federal funding and relevant services discounts are likely to be.” “We don't know what the full effect on your agency is currently and you work as quickly as possible to alleviate the impact of this decision.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic has ended, and HHS will not be lost billions of dollars in taxpayers that respond to a non-existing epidemic that the Americans have not moved in the past years,” Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Federal Humanitarian Services, said in a statement to the New York Times.
President Dan Losting said that the Heimark Center, a non -profit organization that supports up to 5,000 Chicago annually in dealing with the challenges of drug use and mental health challenges, will lose a quarter of its total financing.
Lustig said that the grants that offer drug and health use were supporting the “role” of the four recovery in Heimark, which provides an “organized environment” for people who return to society after the completion of housing treatment. Lustig said that recovery houses provide functions, benefits, continuous mental health services and a local support system.
“When such programs disappear, people often move without a structure, so they reach emergency services and emergency rooms, which only end with the increasing costs,” Lotog said. “We are supposed to serve as a relief valve for the largest institutions, especially with the treatment of the hard -to -reach population.”
Non -profit organizations still “suffer from” how sudden discounts can immediately affect services, such as providing people with treatment programs or Narcan, a drug that increases an overdose of life saving.
Cook province witnessed the lowest death of an overdose of opium in nearly a decade of last year, as awareness efforts were expanded amid standard death in the years that followed the epidemic.
“When the epidemic forced us inside, our prayers with the people were disrupted, and we worked to rebuild these ties. It is a complete field that relies on confidence,” Barz said. “It is easy for (Trump Administration) to do this when they are not on Earth every day.”
Alexa James, CEO of the National Coalition for Mental Diseases at Chicago, said that reducing financing is part of “the continued elimination of safety network services” and “assault on our non -profit sector.”
James said: “He will strike organizations that are trying to a mental health services gap,” said James. “I am thinking of it as anything that mEDICAID may not pay, such as public education and not to barrier or access mental health services.”
James said that federal funds were also used to expand programs that send awareness professionals to mental health crises as an alternative to law connection.
James said: “In many ways, we expected fluctuation, but we did not expect this administration to spend a lot of time searching back.” “For people who do our employees who do this work because they are aligned with the task, this is really uncomfortable.”
Haymarkket employees said they are trying to correct the federal money missing together through donations and other sources to avoid closing programs.
State officials wrote in their e -mail that they are considering legal challenges and that they “requested directives” from federal agencies on “paying the work on the work that was completed before the termination notice.”
“There is a level of frustration, but there is also a lot of fear of where the next pieces will come,” said Lostig. “There is no scheme. Every day is a new day.”
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