Senator visits mental health office: Senator Roy Blunt, center, spoke with employees of the North Missouri Mental Health Center during a visit to Bethany on Saturday afternoon. He discussed the Excellence in Mental Health Act that he sponsored in Congress and the need for broadband in rural areas. He is pictured here with, from left to right, State Representative J. Eggleston and members of the office staff Valerie Tomes, Melinda Myers, Mary Quinley, Executive Director Lori Irvin, Amy May and Pamela Wright.
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt stopped at the North Central Mental Health Center’s satellite office in Bethany Saturday to discuss efforts to expand rural broadband to offer more services to mental health treatment.
Senator Blunt told the staff of the local mental health office that his Excellence in Mental Health Action, which was signed into law in 2014, created an eight-state demonstration program to expand access to community mental health services and to strengthen the quality of care for those living with behavioral problems.