White House official: VP Joe Biden this afternoon, after meeting with families of the dead at Sandy Hook School, will announce $100 million in funding for mental health services

According to an unnamed White House official, Vice President Biden today will announce $100 million will be freed to increase the access to mental health services and improve mental health facilities.  Biden will talk about the new funding during a meeting at the White House with families who lost loved ones during the shooting in Newtown. It will come from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.

 

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