Blog Archive: February 2013

House and Senate Budget Items!

This week, the House and Senate money committees released their budgets and debated them on the floor of each chamber. The positive news is that both the House and Senate…

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Children’s Mental Health Budget Items

The following are important budget amendments affecting children’s mental health that Voices for Virginia’s Children is following. *Expanding Crisis Services and Child Psychiatry Voices’ Campaign for Children’s Mental Health requested…

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New Medicaid Extension Action Alert

Thank you to all advocates who have emailed their legislators about the need to extend Medicaid to low-income, uninsured Virginians. Given what happened yesterday, we need your help again today…

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Report on Gov. McDonnell’s School Safety Task Force

This afternoon, Gov. McDonnell released the letter he sent to the General Assembly with recommendations from his Task Force on School and Campus Safety. Among his list of priorities are…

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Governor’s School Safety Task Force Update

This afternoon, Gov. McDonnell released the letter he sent to the General Assembly with recommendations from his Task Force on School and Campus Safety. Among his list of priorities are…

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