TV Segment: Bring our kids home with PRTF

For many Maine youth who struggle with a highest level of mental health and behavioral challenges, they either have to be sent out of state to secure psychiatric residential treatment facilities as far away as Arkansas and Utah or they get stuck with long stays in Emergency Rooms in hospitals because there is no place for them to receive care. Sweetser’s President & CEO Jayne Van Bramer discusses the need for such a facility in this week’s Mental Health Moment. Recently, the legislature’s HHS committee has unanimously voted to recommend moving forward to support PRTF and funding the necessary capital costs.