We are working to improve prevention, care delivery and crisis treatment. Meanwhile, our public psychiatric hospitals are making progress.
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Maine may revitalize program to counsel families of at-risk children
The state’s ‘functional family therapy’ program would hire dozens of new counselors to help families prevent problems.
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Medicaid expansion expected to draw more older, rural Mainers
Though many who have enrolled so far are young adults, a new report projects that older, rural Mainers with chronic health problems will eventually account for most of the Medicaid expansion population.
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Maine repaid federal government $400,000 for failing to put contract out for bids
Under Gov. Paul LePage, the Department of Health and Human Services improperly administered a grant for assistance to crime victims.
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Trump proposal could end food stamps benefits for 44,000 Mainers, state says
The Mills administration estimates that 27% of Maine residents who now receive the assistance would be affected by the White House plan to eliminate automatic enrollment.
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Waitlist swells as disabled adults seek group homes
Few workers and low reimbursement rates fuel a crisis, and lead DHHS to recommend a cognitively impaired Harpswell man relocate to Florida.
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DHHS opens temporary Biddeford office
The department closed its permanent office in Biddeford because of the condition of the building.
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Commentary: Gov. Mills’ budget raises concerns about unsustainable taxes and spending
There’s little room in the $8 billion-plus proposal to accommodate the unexpected.
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Hundreds pack hearing on bill to end most exemptions for kids’ vaccinations
The measure would eliminate nonmedical exemptions to vaccinations for measles and other infectious diseases that are required before children enter school.
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Legislature’s watchdog committee urged to make protecting children a priority
Lawmakers on the Government Oversight Committee also are told that many of the changes they approved after the deaths of two girls in 2017 and 2018 are in the works.