Healey's budget calls for steep cuts to mental health care for kids and adults - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The administration issued a statement Monday expressing confidence in Doyle. Two years ago, Massachusetts announced a Roadmap for Behavioral Health Care Reform, including a help line and health centers to make it easier and faster for people in need to get mental health care.
54% : Run by Cutchins Programs for Children and Families, a Northampton-based nonprofit, Three Rivers, which can house up to 12 children at a time, is funded by the state's Department of Mental Health and is among an array of Massachusetts mental health services on the chopping block in Governor Maura Healey's budget proposal for the coming fiscal year.
47% : Belt tightening is needed, said State Senator John Velis, a Westfield Democrat and cochair of the joint committee on mental health, substance use, and recovery, "but my position is, not on the back of kids and their behavioral health concerns.

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