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Building on what works » Looking ahead, Braun hopes to procure $70,000 from the state to combine with a $35,000 Hearst Foundation grant in order to double Alliance’s housing units.
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About 1 in 5 » U.S. families affected by mental illness
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"I can’t praise them enough. I support their efforts and the funding they’re asking for," said Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross. "Every dollar invested there is probably saving $10 down the line."
Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake City, applauded Allian
ce House as a truly public-private partnership that works. "They have a proven track record," she said. "Hopefully, we can find something for them."To Braun, the model not only makes people sense but also financial sense. A survey of 20 members who had lived in Alliance House apartments for five years showed that hospitalizations had dropped from 87 before moving into the units to 15 since,
a savings of nearly half a million dollars, Braun said. Incarcerations also fell, from 11 jail stays before Alliance House to none since, saving more than $120,000.The National Alliance on Mental Illness pegs the U.S. economic toll for untreated mental illness at more than $100 million a year.
For Grey, the bottom line is more incalculable. He got back his life, thanks largely to Alliance House.
"If it wasn’t for this place," he said, "it wouldn’t have happened."
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