Dick Batchelor – Social-Service Workers, Clients Rally to Decry Funding Cuts

Dick Batchelor – Social-service workers, clients rally to decry funding cuts – Dozens of social-service workers and their clients rallied in Orlando on Friday to warn of “Draconian” legislative cuts targeting state-funded programs for mental health , drug and alcohol rehabilitation, foster children and those with disabilities… www.orlandosentinel.com

Road to Student of the Year honor was a rough one

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

Katie Kramer, is vice president of the Denver-based Boettcher Foundation, which provides funding for the Alliance. She also chaired the selection committee, and had this to say about Caudill: “He is a nontraditional student and … When he got back to …
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Audit critical of how DA Early doles out seized drug money

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

State law requires most of the money must be spent on investigations and law enforcement operations, but allows district attorneys the leeway to spend up to 10 percent of their share of forfeited funds on “drug rehabilitation, drug education and other …
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Drug money pads DA, police budgets

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

And amid fallout from the Annie Dookhan state drug lab scandal – in which the Franklin resident faces allegations she faked or lied about drug test results in thousands of criminal cases in her role as a state chemist – officials from all sides are …
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