The Mental Health Trust Authority on Oct. 26 announced they want to move in a different direction. Here is our suggestion: Provide assistance appropriate to an individual\u2019s disabilities when Trust beneficiaries are filing a complaint or an appeal with providers. In our opinion, everything else is moot. Respect, dignity and justice are all wrapped up in a fair grievance process, which Alaska does not have for the disabled at this time.<\/p>\n
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority beneficiaries fall into four main categories and number 50,000 or more: the mentally ill, individuals with cognitive impairments, persons with Alzheimer\u2019s and persons who have alcoholism. A common thread is individuals needing assistance from the state because of their disability.<\/p>\n
Faith Myers and Dorrance Collins,<\/strong><\/p>\n Anchorage<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mental Health<\/a> Trust Authority on Oct. 26 announced they want to move in a different direction. Here is our suggestion: Provide assistance appropriate to an individual\u2019s disabilities when Trust beneficiaries are filing a complaint or an appeal with providers. In our opinion<\/a>, everything else is moot. Respect, dignity and justice are all wrapped up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}