From the N&O: only 5% of MH money spent on services proven to help people with serious mental illness

To clarify: what this graphic tells us is that from April 2006 through January 2008, North Carolina spent $1.42 BILLION on community support -- and only $77.4 million on critical services, which are evidence-based practices likely to avoid hospitalization. This, from the leadership that promised "the right treatment, in the right amounts, to the right people"!