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| Treatment center loses funding |
| By News and Tribune |
| Published: 04/10/2008 |
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INDIANA - About 360 people that receive substance-abuse and mental-health treatment as a diversion to a jail sentence annually through the Jeffersonville-based Turning Point Center may have to look elsewhere for help this year. The organization — which provides inpatient treatment to residents in six counties, including Clark and Floyd — lost a $500,000 grant funded through the Indiana Department of Mental Health and Addiction earlier this year. When Madison State Hospital was downsized by the department in 2000, shutting down substance-abuse treatment, the state offered Lifespring a $500,000 grant annually to maintain 10 beds to make up for the loss, said Terry Stawar, director of Lifespring. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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