Op Ed June 30, 2019 – by Bill Rider Building our state’s budget can feel a bit like Hasbro’s Mouse Trap. Somewhere in there the green plastic boot that is “spending targets” sets a roll on an efficiency budget. Then come multiple recommendations, hea …
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NHCBHA Comments on New Ten Year Plan
Press Release June 21, 2019 Concord, NH – As the House and Senate members of the committee of conference finalized an agreement on the state’s two-year operating budget on Thursday, Peter Evers, President of the NH Community Behavioral Health Associati …
Adequate Mental Health Funding Helps Our Biggest Asset – Children
Op Ed June 8, 2019 – by Suellen Griffin For far too long, there has been discouraging news about New Hampshire’s mental health system and the obstacles that people in a psychiatric crisis encounter when trying to access care. Hospital emergency departm …
Funding Mental Health Needs in the 2020-2021 State Operating Budget
NHCBHA Position Paper April 2019 Overview As the 2020-2021 NH State budget moves to the Senate, there are differing opinions about which mental health system services and programs are the highest priority items, in which order they need to be addresse …
NH Health Care Workforce – How does SB 308 make a difference?
New Hampshire employers are struggling to hire workers. Our workforce shortage is preventing success in one of the Granite State’s largest and most important sectors: health care. There are thousands of unfilled positions for health care workers in Ne …
