By Karen Brooks Harper Originally appeared in the Texas Tribune As public debate intensifies over how the state will divvy up billions in new money, community groups that treat children for mental illness fear they’re not a priority. Jelynne LeBlanc Jamison makes the same impossible choice every month, when hundreds of children she can’t afford to treat show up at her publicly funded San Antonio mental health agency, desperate for help, in severe mental and behavioral distress. Turning them away would leave her money for a more robust staff at The Center for Health Care Services, where she is director
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