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Lawmakers Agree on Need for Child Services [NorthCarolinaHealthNews.com]

 

Legislators from both sides of the aisle found points of agreement on health care issues Saturday as they discussed Medicaid, child services and mental health care, and the need for better community psychiatric services in North Carolina.

A capacity crowd of 400 filled UNC-Chapel Hill’s Friday Center for the 39th annual Legislative Breakfast on Mental Health, which featured a panel of two Republicans and four Democrats who agreed that more uninsured people in North Carolina need health coverage.

Legislators on the panel also found common ground on the idea that 16- and 17-year-olds in the justice system should not be automatically charged as adults and that there’s a need for more community-based mental health services.

“Every year, when it comes time to register for this program, I hesitate,” said former Rep. Marilyn Avila, who will take a new position this year as the policy adviser to the House Speaker Pro Tempore’s Office after losing her Raleigh-based seat in November.



[For more of this story, written by Rose Hoban, go to http://www.northcarolinahealth...need-child-services/]

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