Hawaii gets federal help to expand programs for homeless
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A homeless person lies on a bench at a bus stop near the state capitol on Feb. 23.
Hawaii’s chronically homeless people will benefit from more time in programs to help them with mental health or substance abuse issues.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced today that Hawaii was selected to participate in a special Medicaid program.
It will allow the state to help people continue participating in Medicaid programs geared toward mental health and substance abuse for a longer period of time.
Judy Mohr Peterson of the state Department of Human Services says those who improve during mental health and substance abuse programs may regress after those programs end.
The federal assistance will expand services available to Medicaid-eligible clients who are homeless. It also will give the state access to national experts to help implement programs like Housing First.
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Hawaii’s leaders know that the homeless here are not interested in being caged in a housing with military-like rules. But they just want as much Federal funds acting like they will help the homeless when in fact, it will be used for other pork barrel project for their crony friends.
Need to fix our freeways and roads first.
We need to carefully monitor these funds
Give the money to the homeless where it is cold, and snowing. Chicago? That’s who really needs the help with the warm shelters. Not in tropical Hawaii.
Get them one-way tickets to where they came from.
The best way for the Feds to help is to pay to relocate homeless to where the cost of living is cheaper, where they have an actual shot at self-sufficiency. As long as they stay in Hawaii they will forever be dependent on handouts, like animals cared for in a zoo who are not able to fend for themselves. The State’s politicians just want MONEY to spend on their pork projects, they don’t actually want to help the homeless have a better future.
I agree! And the Feds should take the Homeless Veterans off the street, house them, rehab them, and help them get started!
all true
Spend more money!
Okay. We can now rehab a lot of the homeless and then ship them back home. Let their State or families worry about them after that.
AP wire item. NOT seen by an Advertiser editor for editing. Hey, it be a Saturday! “Longer”? Got it! All da gnus fit to print.