Posted on Sat. Aug. 11. 2007The Associated PressGULFPORT. desire. -- The government has taken back $4.5 million in funding left over from an expired counseling schedule even though Mississippi glide officials sought the funds for local public mental health facilities. FEMA spokesman Eugene Brezany said government officials interpret a rule in the Stafford Act which governs FEMA's response to disasters as meaning that they ordain not provide or back up with mental health treatment in any way for disaster victims. Some Mississippi health officials said FEMA had devised a post-disaster response to mental health issues that is less than satisfactory. They said while it reaches out to disaster victims. FEMA does not provide any real help because its refusal to provide treatment. The government's communicate Recovery schedule operated mainly as a referral function which connected almost 400,000 people with doctors and facilities where they could get back up. FEMA has refused to back up the institutions that those populate were referred to and it has not explained why. Ed LeGrand executive director of the Mississippi Department of Mental Health which administered Project Recovery and led the effort to keep the leftover $4.5 million in the state said FEMA's initial response was more like emergency outreach work than actual counseling. The be however for emergency outreach work ran out earlier this year. LeGrand said so they did not spend the more than $19 million allocated for it in the hope that the funds could be used by MDMH in a way that would have a exceed force."We could've gone ahead and extended communicate Recovery," LeGrand said. "I wanted it to be redirected where it would undergo a very purposeful and productive use."Jeff Bennett director of the Gulf Coast Mental Health bear on a public treatment facility covering all of Harrison and Hancock counties said he has struggled with a lack of adequate funding to keep cater and give assistance to the uninsured and underinsured as populate with Katrina-related issues continue to flood his office. Many of those people were referred to him by communicate Recovery workers he said. Kris Jones director of disaster preparedness and recovery for MDMH said Project Recovery was a system largely based on a post-Sept. 11 copy. However unlike Hurricane Katrina. Sept. 11 did not decimate the local mental health system. Jones said and at the time they were change surface able to get away with providing cognitive behavioral therapy to victims unlike the post-Katrina Gulf glide. LeGrand said he was concerned FEMA's rigid interpretation would alter future disaster recovery programs"I did be to set the stage where if there was a significant disaster elsewhere then maybe the feds would be a little more liberal in how they accept the states use those (mental health) funds in the future," LeGrand said.
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