RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s governor said the state has found $15 million to help the mentally ill, developmentally disabled and substance abusers just hours before advocates for those groups planned a news conference to criticize spending cuts.
Gov. Beverly Perdue said Tuesday that the state Department of Health and Human Services identified $15 million to help community services. A group of advocates called The Coalition planned a news conference Wednesday to ask Perdue to return the same amount, which she withheld from local mental health office Story continues here ➤
