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created by Mother_Sunn on 02/02/2025 at 14:42 UTC
192 upvotes, 24 top-level comments (showing 24)
They are wanting to get rid of the MHSA and transfer that to the DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS!
As someone who struggles with mental health, this terrifies me.
Comment by AutoModerator at 02/02/2025 at 14:42 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
They are wanting to get rid of the MHSA and transfer that to the DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS!
As someone who struggles with mental health, this terrifies me.
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Comment by BuyThisUsername420 at 02/02/2025 at 15:25 UTC*
59 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Please please please advocate against this- the ODMHSAS provides so much more care than you all know.
From reunification support for families in CPS for addicted parents to work through sobriety and get kids back into a safe and loving home. VETERANS receive “wrap around” services and help navigating resources to keep them from killing themselves.
Case Managers will liaison between clients and leasing managers, some people are so anxious and with some learning/behavioral issues but CAN be independent and maintain their own housing- but stressful interactions frequently get them kicked out for yelling or escalating- but it���s hard to control.
Veterans and people with TBI can wind up in a city they don’t know, can’t remember their family, and the only support they have is a case manager willing to track them down.
Rural communities often ONLY access to care is partially ODMHSAS.
They created license and education for clinicians- rehabilitative services provide job prep, in a world where the candidate to hired pipeline is fraught with fraud and unspoken social conventions.
This is alarming.
I worked at one of the Community Based Mental Health Clinic in OKC for a bit- at $12/hr home visiting case manager. it was brutal and a huge case load ever rotating because of clinician turnover. Still, I know I made an impact and it was ODMSAS funded. Even the small shit like just giving food bank resources, or getting birth certificate copies.
From assisting with people unknowingly having syphilus and HIV, crisis intervention, medication support, helping retrieve Birth Certificates and SS cards so many little things that have to happen in order to contribute to society (or be less destructive than possible) when you’re starting at ground zero. It so so so easy for many of us to wind up in homelessness- I’ve seen happen from the loss of spouse and then lost cellphone ya know?
People just don’t want to be reminded how close we all are to losing everything, I’ve seen it all- suburban homemakers in DV shelters to little old folks on dialysis trying to cope with the gun shots outside their apartment. A mother losing a teen son to a car accident, and grief triggered a month long pregnancy hallucinations- no history before do you think she could maintain her employment without help in the scenario? It’s just so important to have resources that can fill in gaps.
My family has voted conservative republic since they heard of the “party switch” before that they were conservative democrat but still loyal as hell to the current messaging. At the same time, they recived medication from clinics held every other Wednesday in my small town- please gently educate your loved ones of the hypocrisies when you see them. They have been sold a message, and completely detached their local experience from the national politics- they just thought the clinic was put on by the church it was held in. They had no idea it was funded by government money. Then they go and judge the others standing in line, but don’t realize they were there too, and maybe their sad story of corporate and governmental greed was the same sad story happening to the Mexicans and Black people they were in line with at the clinic.
Comment by OKBeeDude at 02/02/2025 at 15:05 UTC
81 upvotes, 1 direct replies
THIS should have us taking to the streets more than some vague “I’m upset about Trump and I don’t like Elon” protest. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like them either, and I won’t abide fascists in our government, but we need to organize around clear objectives. This is one.
Comment by VeggieMeatTM at 02/02/2025 at 15:03 UTC
36 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Modern Republicans believe prison is the solution to all problems.
Comment by emeraldcitynoob at 02/02/2025 at 16:16 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Comment by jaguarsp0tted at 02/02/2025 at 17:05 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Comment by stagepsych at 02/02/2025 at 18:21 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I emailed him about his bill. I’m not taking my eyes off of it, but I can breathe a bit easier.
Comment by pepolepop at 02/02/2025 at 16:00 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Of course it's Humphrey, that dude is a clown. Hopefully this gets shot down like everything else he proposes.
Comment by oSuJeff97 at 02/02/2025 at 17:52 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
FUCK these fascist fucks.
How many fucking times do GOP assholes prattle on about how it’s a “mental health crisis” every time there is a mass shooting as an excuse to not do anything about gun control?
So, naturally, they abolish mental health services.
Fuck them.
Comment by FineFishOnFridays at 02/02/2025 at 15:46 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Saddest thing is…
Right now it’s a shadow of its former self…
Still giving the crazies too much money in their minds I guess.
IMO mental healthcare should be a right, not a privilege.
We are failing the mental health community and everything/everyone who would need/use it.
Then we’re shocked when mentally unhealthy people do more public/dangerous things that used to be behind a facility walls/fence.
It’s all our fault and our parent’s fault. We’re going the wrong way with this like everything else in this state.
Comment by rothline at 02/02/2025 at 16:07 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is an extremely bad idea.
Comment by GulfstreamAqua at 02/02/2025 at 17:14 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
OK is a seriously messed up place.
Comment by Total-Butterfly-3274 at 02/02/2025 at 19:40 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
As someone who works for this department. Yikes
Comment by ranchtacosalad at 02/02/2025 at 19:59 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Maybe the most sickening upvote I’ve ever given but people have to be aware of this. We have to stop this. I don’t know how because that’s above my pay grade but we can’t let this happen.
Comment by dilbertdad at 02/02/2025 at 18:09 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
What was the reasoning behind this? Just curious.
Comment by pantone175c at 02/02/2025 at 15:17 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The majority of voting Oklahomans chose this. They want it.
Comment by tehnibi at 02/02/2025 at 20:15 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
oh hey my friend just got a new position in a place where they work with addicts and give out suboxone to help ease them off and get their life on track
I wonder if this would just collapse her program? that is a big number of jobs gone if so
Comment by noeticmech at 03/02/2025 at 14:02 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I mean, we need *someone* to do slave farm labor after we deport all the undocumented workers and put 25% taxes on everything coming from the countries we buy most of our imported food from.
What'd you expect?
Comment by darthamartha at 02/02/2025 at 16:25 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Okay... real question-what about the crisis intervention programs cops rolled out with social services?
Comment by OriginalMaximum949 at 02/02/2025 at 17:59 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Will ODOC be handling law enforcement officers that file mental health workers comp claims under that new state law?
Comment by Bigfamei at 02/02/2025 at 18:32 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
They know federal funding will be cut for these services.
Comment by Bright-Internal229 at 02/02/2025 at 17:20 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Yet, we have BILLIONS for Israel 🇮🇱 & Ukraine 🇺🇦 ⁉️🔥☠️
Comment by Averagebass at 02/02/2025 at 15:29 UTC
-6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This thing will never see the light of day, but monitor it's progress I guess just in case...
Comment by cwcam86 at 02/02/2025 at 17:26 UTC
-2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This isn't going anywhere, it's one of those nothing bills that these guys propose just so that they can say they tried to get something passed
