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  "path": "/2026/06/02/services-for-families-of-missourians-with-mental-illnesses-face-budget-cuts/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T10:55:40.000Z",
  "site": "https://missouriindependent.com",
  "tags": [
    "Health Care",
    "Legislature",
    "Betsy Fogle",
    "Department of Mental Health",
    "Dirk Deaton",
    "Maggie Nurrenbern",
    "mental health",
    "Mike Kehoe",
    "NAMI Missouri",
    "National Alliance on Mental Illness",
    "Rusty Black"
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  "textContent": "When Barb Buchanan walked into her first support group for family members of people with mental illness in Columbia around 2010, Heather Harlan greeted her with a “huge smile.” Harlan started attending the meetings, run by NAMI Missouri, the statewide affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, in 2007. Her adult son, Micah Bacus, […]",
  "title": "Services for families of Missourians with mental illnesses face budget cuts"
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