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Iowa still has a public mental health crisis, AMOS group told (DesMoniesRegister)

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Iowa still has a public health crisis, AMOS group told

Iowa’s revamped mental health care system must include more state workers so that care is easier to access and is funded properly, an advocate said Sunday at a community organizing group’s annual Action Summit.

Officials with A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy, or AMOS, celebrated progress on several initiatives: Project Iowa, which is intended to match unemployed Iowans with jobs; planning for a 65,000-square-foot skate park in Des Moines; and increased access to health care for uninsured pregnant women in Ames.

But people at the summit agreed that efforts must be unflagging to complete those projects — and to address other concerns for the first time.

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Complete article at Des Moines Register : http://bit.ly/oGqDT5