Post by Logan on Feb 1, 2016 1:10:04 GMT -6
BOISE, Idaho
Jimmy Moss, an Idaho Falls resident suffering from a traumatic brain injury, was facing homelessness when his family brought him to the recently opened crisis center in eastern Idaho last year.
"I was really bitter," Moss, 38, said. "I was fed up with life. I didn't want to come in, but I was agitated. I didn't know where it was coming from — from the medication or the brain injury."
Within hours, Moss was connected with an Idaho Falls community center that houses people who are facing homelessness and struggling with mental illness and with a doctor to oversee his prescriptions and treat him.
Gov. C. L. "Butch" Otter is asking the Legislature for $1.7 million to build another center in southern Idaho. Proponents say the center would alleviate overburdened emergency rooms and crowded jails, while linking people with mental health issues to services and medical care.
Read more here: www.idahostatesman.com/news/nation-world/health-and-medicine/article57589238.html
Jimmy Moss, an Idaho Falls resident suffering from a traumatic brain injury, was facing homelessness when his family brought him to the recently opened crisis center in eastern Idaho last year.
"I was really bitter," Moss, 38, said. "I was fed up with life. I didn't want to come in, but I was agitated. I didn't know where it was coming from — from the medication or the brain injury."
Within hours, Moss was connected with an Idaho Falls community center that houses people who are facing homelessness and struggling with mental illness and with a doctor to oversee his prescriptions and treat him.
Gov. C. L. "Butch" Otter is asking the Legislature for $1.7 million to build another center in southern Idaho. Proponents say the center would alleviate overburdened emergency rooms and crowded jails, while linking people with mental health issues to services and medical care.
Read more here: www.idahostatesman.com/news/nation-world/health-and-medicine/article57589238.html