Iowa’s Woodbury County Plans Major Cuts In Mental Health Programs

Circle Connections: Policy & Regulatory Updates Woodbury County, Iowa will eliminate one program, stop funding a second one, and make other reductions in mental-health services on July 1, 2013 as a result of the state's move to a regional administration model. County Social Services Director Patty Erickson Puttmann told the county board on Tuesday her budget will be $650,665 short next fiscal year because the county won't get any state funding for mental health services. Left to rely solely on its mental health property tax levy revenues to pay for programs, the board, as part of . . .