Rural America Finally Gets Mental Health Help (governing.com)
People in remote areas have long lacked access to mental health services. The movement to fix that is showing signs of life. In 1963 when President John F. Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Act, the effect of the law was to shift mental health care away from large, state-run mental institutions and place it in communities where the focus would be on prevention as well as treatment. But Congress never adequately funded the mental health services that were needed to support the law.