Virginia’s Mental Health Services Vulnerable To Possible $8.9M Reductions In State Funding

Circle Connections: Awards & Accreditations The state's department of behavioral health has recommended slashing $8.9 million in grants to Virginia's 40 mental health agencies, including Valley Community Services Board in Staunton. The cuts would come at a time when agencies overall have seen a nine-percent rise from the previous year in the number of people receiving services in the public system of care for behavioral and developmental health. In fiscal year 2012, a total of 222,823 people received services from community service boards and state facilities. In the 2011 fiscal year that number was 203 . . .