October 8th, 2009
Public Meeting: The Future of Clarinda MHI
A public forum to discuss the future of Clarinda MHI will be held on Monday, October 12th in the MHI auditorium. The scheduled time is 3:00 – 5:00PM. If you live in the area and are concerned with keeping the Clarinda facility open, you should attend and make your voice heard. Here’s a flyer for the event: Attention Citizens of Clarinda (4.7 megabyte PDF). The forum is part of Iowa’s investigation into whether one of it’s four state psychiatric facilities should be closed. You can read more about that story here: Iowa to Close a Kirkbride?, and in the forum within the various Iowa hospital threads.
So any word on how this went?
This was all I could find online so far: Message at Hearing: Iowa needs Its Four Mental Health Institutes
Here’s another report: Clarinda Turns Out in Force to Support MHI