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The Journey of Funding Our Program 8/28/2009 7:06:03 PM
Hi everyone. Thought I would give you updates on our program.
A little background first.
I work in a mental health program in Sacramento, Calif. As you may have heard our State and County budget is very bad right now. We serve people who have severe mental illness. Six months ago 14 of our staff were layed off. I thought that was the last of the lay offs.
Well, in order for us to survive we made a proposal for another funding source.Four other programs also made a proposal.
We finally heard yesterday that they are having us and another program run what we are doing now. The good news is we got part of the contract. The bad news is we don't know how many of our staff will be layed off.There will be layoffs but don't know yet if it is a 50/50 funding for both the programs or what.
Our staffs morale is very low, so I tried to help by sending an e-mail to all the staff that had a poem about hope. My little contribution.
I will keep you updated on how this all plays out.
