{"id":13516,"date":"2019-07-01T07:55:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13516"},"modified":"2019-07-01T07:55:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:55:03","slug":"state-lawmakers-eye-federal-dollars-to-boost-mental-health-counseling-by-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13516","title":{"rendered":"State Lawmakers Eye Federal Dollars To Boost Mental Health Counseling By Peers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rob Waters for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 1 p.m. on a balmy Oakland afternoon as residents of Great Expectations Residential Care, a home for people with mental illness, gather in an activity room for a game of bingo.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Frierson, an unpaid volunteer, introduces himself as he and his team leader, Charlie Jones, unpack chips, soda, batteries and shampoo that they will hand out as prizes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Lee with Reach Out,\u201d Frierson says. \u201cI\u2019m a peer. I suffer from depression. It helps me to help you guys.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/state-lawmakers-eye-federal-dollars-to-boost-mental-health-counseling-by-peers\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=74213198&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_7XuTVZPtjFodLZckUBNpoUg7ZaPT53fGfUTmS7o7AS_ZbOKIUdn2L_4gHhKj1NuTZ8Aoma9jhs1YDFP_ywAOcXWYD9Q&amp;_hsmi=74213198\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rob Waters for Kaiser Health News) It\u2019s 1 p.m. on a balmy Oakland afternoon as residents of Great Expectations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13517,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516\/revisions\/13517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}