The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded $34.7 million to Louisiana to provide crisis counseling to Hurricane Katrina victims, second only to the $137 million it awarded for crisis counseling in New York after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. The money will be used to support Louisiana Spirit, a federally funded crisis-counseling assistance and training program. In a news release, Roxane Townsend, deputy secretary at the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, said, "There will still be a critical need to open up more treatment facilities such as inpatient mental-health beds, outpatient clinics and other services, but the ability to reach out to people with basic counseling services and trained counselors is a needed step."
[ via Modern Healthcare's Daily Dose ]
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