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Haines receives massive grant to expand behavioral health services post-disaster
December 17, 2020
Local agencies and partners at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau have two weeks to spend an unprecedented $1.4 million the state is channeling into Haines to assist with stabilization and behavioral health services in the wake of the Dec. 2 landslide.
“Could you use $1.4 million?” was the text Bartlett chief behavioral health officer Bradley Grigg received from an official at the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services after he notified the department that the hospital planned to send behavioral health staff to support the recovery effort in Haines.
“After I got through the shock of ‘Are you kidding me?’ I (readily accepted),” Grigg said.