Ms. Davidge's plan subcontracts mental-health services to another company, a common practice in managed care.
We are constantly wrestling with the problem that children cannot obtain mental-health services for themselves.
A comprehensive system of mental-health services, including support for parents with sick adult children who refuse treatment, doesn't exist.
I have spent 25 years working in a public hospital, delivering mental-health services to low-income people.
It now has 14,900 square feet, including space for mental-health services, in a county building on Montauk Highway.
Nothing justifies the exemption of Arizona's system from the mental-health services that all other states provide under Medicaid.
There are many families whose income is too high for public assistance but too low to pay for private mental-health services, she said.
They need mental-health services, after-school services and day care.
"Use your clout and authority to see that the families in trouble really connect with the mental-health services you refer them to."
Today some 250,000 Americans with mental illness live in prisons, the nation's primary supplier of mental-health services.