Resolution 26
A RESOLUTION TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ENCOURAGE THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA TO INCREASE SUPPORT FOR MENTALLY ILL AND THE INDIGENT
Short Title: Help our Communities Act
Sponsors: Senator Webb
Signatories:
Referred to:
Version: As introduced
First Reading: October 1, 2008 Second Reading:
WHEREAS, according to the Census Bureau, 13.8% of the population in Raleigh, NC is considered poor[1]; and,
WHEREAS, the current plan is to move mentally ill persons from both Dorthea Dix Mental Hospital and John Umstead to the newly built Central Regional Mental Hospital, which has a capacity of 432 beds
[More to be added via committee amendment]
RESOLVED, that the NC State Student Senate strongly encourages the Department of Health and Human Services to consider making permanent both the 100 bed unit at the current John Umstead Hospital and the 60 bed unit that will be located on the site of the old Dorothea Dix Hospital; and be it further,
RESOLVED, that we recognize that these improvements will improve our safety and overall well being.