{"id":540,"date":"2015-09-21T00:15:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubaltlawcfcc.wordpress.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2015-09-21T00:15:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:15:28","slug":"lack-of-free-or-subsidized-mental-health-care-and-substance-abuse-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/2015\/09\/21\/lack-of-free-or-subsidized-mental-health-care-and-substance-abuse-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Free or Subsidized Mental Health Care and Substance Abuse Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By William Clayton Donley III, CFCC Student Fellow 2015-2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a student in the Center for Families, Children and the Courts Student Fellows Program, I have had the opportunity to conduct research on the types of programs available for those in need of mental health care and substance abuse treatment. The research was tailored towards finding mental health care\/substance abuse treatment that would be free or at least low-cost. However, as I progressed through my research I realized that in some counties, the amount of resources available for mental health care\/substance abuse treatment that was free or low-cost was little to none.<\/p>\n<p>Being relatively new to family law and social services networks, I was not sure what to expect when I began my fellowship with the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Child and the Courts. It became very clear to me that in some parts of Maryland, there is a lack of resources and organizations for low income individuals who suffer from mental health and substance abuse issues.\u00a0This discovery startled me. I thought that for such a dire necessity the state of Maryland would have more resources tailored to addressing this problem. \u201cOf Maryland\u2019s over 5.7 million residents, more than 175,000 adults live with serious mental illness and about 62,000 children live with serious mental health conditions.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> This is a surprising statistic due to the fact that there are an abundant number of individuals who want to try and better their lives by trying to obtain housing and jobs, yet they are faced with another obstacle of having to seek affordable treatment for their mental health\/substance abuse issues.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout my schooling and work experience I have noticed a lack of resources tailored towards helping these types of individuals seek treatment.\u00a0 Within CFCC we have focused on helping children with mental health issues. \u00a0Considering that \u201cabout 9.2 million adults have co-occurring mental health and addiction disorders,\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> there does not seem to be many options for a large number of these people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> http:\/\/namimd.org\/uploaded_files\/237\/Maryland_Mental_Illness_Facts.pdf<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> http:\/\/www2.nami.org\/factsheets\/mentalillness_factsheet.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By William Clayton Donley III, CFCC Student Fellow 2015-2016 As a student in the Center for Families, Children and the Courts Student Fellows Program, I have had the opportunity to conduct research on the types of programs available for those in need of mental health care and substance abuse treatment. The research was tailored towards&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cfcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}