{"id":252,"date":"2013-01-09T17:45:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T17:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-03-27T21:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T21:49:31","slug":"a-lack-of-mental-health-services-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"A lack of mental health services in the middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSHU&#8217;s coverage of disparity issues in Connecticut was necessarily interrupted by coverage the tragic school shooting in Newtown. We plan to share more disparity-related stories soon. In the meantime, there was one story following the Newtown tragedy that raised an issue of disparity. Reporter Melinda Tuhus covered a news conference about mental health services for children, in which Yale professor Steven Marans, Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccev.org\/\">National Center for Children Exposed to Violence<\/a>, said there was a disparity in the access to mental health coverage for kids.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The poor have a certain baseline level of services and the wealthy can pay privately, and the middle class has very limited access,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Melinda Tuhus&#8217; story:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MT_delaurochildren_121217.mp3\">MT_delaurochildren_121217<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting parallel to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=244\">recent story about half-day vs. full-day kindergarten<\/a>. Sometimes the people at the top of the economic spectrum in Connecticut can afford services, those at the bottom get financial assistance, and it&#8217;s tough to be stuck in the middle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSHU&#8217;s coverage of disparity issues in Connecticut was necessarily interrupted by coverage the tragic school shooting in Newtown. We plan to share more disparity-related stories soon. In the meantime, there was one story following the Newtown tragedy that raised an issue of disparity. Reporter Melinda Tuhus covered a news conference about mental health services for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}