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Here at the Women's Treatment Center, we are deeply concerned about the impact of the proposed doomsday budget cuts. We need your support to turn this situation around.
Every dollar spent on treatment for alcohol and drug disorders results in $7 in benefits. And yet we just received word that more than $5 million of our FY10 funding from the Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse - more than half of our entire FY10 budget - would be cut in the legislatively-approved state budget. What sense does that make?
The proposed cut means in the next year we would have to turn away more than 500 women and children - troubled women who desperately need and want the relief and recovery they find here, distressed children who come here and thrive in an atmosphere of care and consistency.
Programs like The Women's Treatment Center that provide multiple wrap-around services such as early childhood developmental assessments, well baby care, parenting coaching, and early childhood mental health services along with substance abuse treatment and mental health services go a long way toward providing a safety net for the most vulnerable members of our society: young children and their families.
A $5 million cut would close roughly half of our programs.Our clients would have no place to go except back to their lives before treatment. Some would go back to prison for drug-related offenses. Many would face the possible loss of their children to the DCFS system, (although that system, too, would be decimated by the proposed budget cuts).
Here's what you can do:
Contact Governor Quinn (Click Here) and ask him not to sign the doomsday budget and to reject cuts that would cause lasting pain for kids and families.
Governor's Office
Springfield 217-782-6830
Chicago 312-814-2121
Website www.illinois.govs
Urge your state representative and senator (Click here to get contact information)
to support raising the revenues necessary to prevent these cuts
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