Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a 'Get Out The Vote' rally on Oct. 27, 2022 in Katy, Texas.A white tent looms over the grounds of the Uvalde County Fairplex, a sparse multipurpose venue that previously hosted rodeos, quinceañeras and the annual firemen's ball, now home to Texas's newest trauma center and Gov. Greg Abbott's latest self-declared success.
In response to questions from ABC News, his office pointed to Uvalde Resiliency as "a hub for community services … being run by the Uvalde community." They pointed to a $105 million The Robb Elementary School sign is seen covered in flowers and gifts on June 17, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas.Immediately after the shooting, Uvalde District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee applied for and received $5 million from the state-funded Texas Crime Victims Assistance Grant Program to build and run the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center.Soon after, Abbott also allocated $1.
According to the Resiliency Center's interim executive director Mary Beth Fisk, the center has so far provided over 3,800 contacts in the community, with over 1,900 clinical visits serving more than 700 individuals. Local practitioners say they have received negative feedback from community members regarding the quality of care, the therapeutic environment, and the long wait times at the center, all exacerbated by cultural taboos stigmatizing mental health care and poor insurance coverage in the largely Latino community.
When asked about frustrations some members of the Uvalde community have expressed about accessing various resources, Fisk defended the work of the Resiliency Center, emphasizing how quickly the center took over the role of its predecessor, the Family Assistance Center, to provide mental and behavioral health services, as well as the role it has served as a lending hand for victims and survivors seeking financial aid.
And a closer look at the governor's published breakdown of the budget shows that only $16.5 million out of the $105.5 million — about 15% of the total that the Abbott administration has touted — went to expand statewide mental health resources, while the other 85% has been allocated toward police training, personnel travel, and security upgrades for classrooms, including $50 million for bullet-resistant shields.
JoaquinCastrotx
BetoForGovernor2022
He DEFUNDED THAT TO PAY FOR HIS BORDER
Greg Abbott doesn't even fully fund disability services. There is an EIGHTEEN YEAR wait list for disabled Texans who age out of public school special education services. 18 years. He cannot be trusted to do a THING for the vulnerable.
He's had plenty of time to do that. After 8 years he's done nothing to address mental health issues of students who've experienced the fear of being gunned down in their classroom. What has he done? Sent DNA test kits to schools. You know, to help identify the dead.
PeriwinkleRose3 Abbott won’t even allow release of after action authoritative invest report on Uvalde until after election. He’s doing the “out of sight out of mind” dance.
Abbott blamed Texas school shooting on lack of mental health resources. But he reportedly cut more than $200 million from the department that handles them.
JoaquinCastrotx Beto's better...VoteBlueIn2022 Texas BetoForGovernor2022
DeeceX
Partisan news. fake
Typical.
If our President Bolsonaro (Brazil) was a corrupt, there wouldn't be so many fools around the world being the target of misinformation promoted by a perverse mechanism that wants to implant socialist dictatorships throughout the West.
KarenATXMH Plus, he lies.
ABC News Supports Beto. There fixed it for you 🙄
Another smear campaign by the FAKE NEWS!
Right to lifers otherwise love to propose a reasonable sounding solution that misses every possible point.
SaintRampalJiM
No, it doesn't. I am glad he is actually talking about unlike the Democrats who always just yell that guns are murderers; no, people are murderers.
Abbott said he'd stop the rapists, maybe he meant therapists
Mental Heath care is broken in U.S. and needs to be a priority.
When Abbott funded $250M last legislative session and then took all it away months before Uvalde to fund pet projects & grab cash he otherwise as Gov wouldn't be entitled to, it shows AbbottFailedTexas
May 30, 2022 In April, Abbott slashed $211 million from mental health programs in the state. Abbott has no interest in improving mental health programs. Don't buy the lies.
It's basically BS