Save Community Mental Health Services!
We, the undersigned, petition the County of Santa Barbara for the following:SAVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES!For over 30 years, a network of community-based organizations (CBOs) in Santa Barbara... continue reading »
"These services are absolutely essential to the individuals who receive them. Better to gut all administrators before the services. It is a sin and a shame to allow people who can thrive with help to literally die on the street."
"Please give every consideration to saving these valuable programs"
"The mentally ill are already dispossessed and disenfranchised. It is utterly unfair to reduce their already meager resources in the community."
"Absent these services, our severely mentally ill citizens may require an even greater outlay of public funds."
"I am a client (49/F) who receives services from SB County ADMHS -- and from a County contracted day treatment program. I would feel hopeless, lost, and very alone if I didn't have access to the wonderful, caring counselors, administrators, and support peo"
"By not funding these services you are setting up a domino effect of hopelessness for the mentally ill in our community. We have already witnessed the alarming increase in homelessness, drug use/alcoholism (self medication) and crime that is a direct resul"
"Please stop these drastic cuts!"
"I really like it here and I want to stay here unitl 2020."