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The county’s Board of Commissioners on Tuesday authorized applying for Community and Mental Health
Services Block Grants of $3 million and $850,000 from Pennsylvania’s Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
Natalie Corman, director of Mental Health/Intellectual Disability/Early Intervention, said counties previously received notice to submit letters of intent to apply for funding for crisis services enhancements and Centre County recently was invited to fully apply for the grants.
Crisis services have been an ongoing discussion in the county for years, and particularly since 2019 following the fatal police shooting of Osaze Osagie in State College while officers were serving a mental health warrant. Recommendations of a joint borough and county task force formed later that year include the projects the county is looking to fund with the grants.
by John Klyczek / December 14th, 2020
Five of the pharmaceutical companies developing COVID-19 vaccines through the USA’s Operation Warp Speed have paid out a total of nearly $6 billion to settle lawsuits charging them with fraud related to “off-label” marketing of atypical antipsychotics and antidepressants that were mandated through the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), which evolved into President George W. Bush’s federal “New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.” AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Janssen Pharmaceutical, and Pfizer, which are currently funded with over $7 billion from Operation Warp Speed, financed the nationwide rollout of fraudulent TMAP algorithms in order to bilk Medicaid programs and other public revenues to pay for drugs like Risperdal, Seroquel, Geodon, Paxil, and Wellbutrin, causing serious side-effects, including death.