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Nov 15, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Digging through the #NCGA budget. Here's some behavioral health highlights:
-adds 1,000 slots for people with disabilities to receive services under the Innovations Waiver, which has a current 10-year waiting list of more than 15,000 people.
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-$10 million grant program for hospitals to expand tele-psychiatry in the wake of COVID.
-$8 million to expand the MAT Community Supervision pilot program for people recently released from prison and on probation.