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WASHINGTON (WJZ) — The national authorities awarded $18.2 cardinal to 5 Maryland organizations to summation entree to intelligence wellness services and substance usage treatment, Maryland’s Congressional Democrats announced connected Wednesday.
Here’s a breakdown of wherever the wealth volition go:
- $5 cardinal to Volunteers of America Chesapeake, Inc., successful Lanham, for children and household trauma services
- $5 cardinal for Family Services, Inc., successful Gaithersburg, to grow treatments successful outpatient intelligence wellness clinics
- $4,999,994 for Montgomery County for assemblage intelligence wellness centers services
- $2,420,438 for Arundel Lodge, Inc., successful Edgewater, a nonprofit offering services for radical with behavioral wellness disorders
- $800,365 for Maryland’s Medicaid Agency to make mobile involution services for individuals experiencing a intelligence wellness situation oregon substance use-related emergency
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In a associated statement, U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Reps. Steny H. Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and David Trone said the wealth would supply amended wellness attraction entree to low-income and susceptible residents.
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“The terrible deficiency of affordable and accessible wellness attraction and situation involution services tin person a devastating interaction connected Marylanders, and peculiarly connected underserved communities,†the lawmakers said.
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The $18,220,797 successful national dollars comes from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplement Act of 2021 and the American Rescue Plan, the lawmakers said.
CBS Baltimore Staff
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