Now is the time to contact your legislators to ask them to prioritize new funding for children’s mental health services! We have made it easy for you to take action:

• Simply go to our online advocacy system and enter your name and address.
• Personalize the email by adding your connection to the issue– whether you are a parent, teacher, therapist, concerned grandparent, etc.
• Click send!

We are requesting that the legislature accept Governor McDonnell’s additional $1 million for children’s crisis response services and child psychiatry and add another $450,000 to that amount so that projects can be funded in all 5 health planning regions of the state.

Next week is the last week the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees will have to craft their budgets; each chamber releases its budget on Sunday, February 3. So now is the time to make your voice heard!

Thank you.

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