Delays in the state budget Maine that cause weights for the treatment center on substance consumption

At least one program to help teenagers with substance consumption disorders is in danger due to Thursday’s Senate Failure to approve an additional budget with a two -thirds.

Republicans refused to support the additional $ 121 million budget without structural reforms. Because the budget failed to obtain two thirds, tomorrow’s payments will be reduced or delayed until June. If two thirds of the parliamentarians had voted for this, the payments would have been interrupted only for a short period of time.

Democratic parliamentarians said on Friday that they will go on without Republican support, if necessary, to finance the deficit Mainecare in this year’s budget and to ensure that the essential services are financed for the next two years.

The additional budget was required to complete a deficit of USD 118 million in the tomorrow’s budget. Maineare, the state name for the Federal Medicaid program, offers medical care for patients with lower incomes and is funded with state and federal money.

Among the areas of disagreeWork requirements, Education or Community Services – that the Democrats opposed it.

Day 1 based in Windham operates a residential treatment program for teenagers. The program funded by tomorrow is in danger of having to suspend operations and send 11 children home from two residential treatment centers in Camberland, said CEO Becky Humphrey, who did not want to identify the locations of the program for patient confidentiality.

“People who receive this service are funded by tomorrow,” Humphrey said. “If we are not paid, we cannot support this service. We cannot pay personally, buy food and do our best to do to provide that service. “

Residential treatment programs have a high demand, but there are few of them. Residential treatment can help patients with more severe cases of substance consumption disorder.

In addition to sending adolescents home, 14 staff members would be at least temporarily dismissed, Humphrey said.

It seems that state Republicans and Democrats are unlikely to agree with a compromise that will prevent the delay of tomorrow to medical service providers, such as the first day. Some suppliers who have large cash reserves may be able to use them while resuming payments in June, but Humphrey said the first day is a small program that has no big cash reserves.

Humphrey said the first day is trying to increase funds to avoid suspending the residential program, but this will be difficult shortly.

“We will do everything in our ability to prevent the suspension of our services,” Humphrey said.

The president of the Democratic Senate, Mattie Daughtry, in a speech on Tuesday, mentioned the struggles that day, who are facing other and other medical service providers in trying to earn more support for the additional budget. The first day is “the only residential program for youth to support the consumption disorder in the whole state,” she said.

Their forcing them from residential treatment would be “abandoning them. We would turn our backs on them, “Daughtry said.