Lutheran Social Services officials say they will have to turn away one in four patients from two residential treatment programs in Chicago and Elgin, which will cut 21 positions.This piece notes that this agency is seeking to lobby state lawmakers to overturn the $55 million in drug treatmentfunds that the governor cut from the budget this summer.
Another six are being eliminated from the closing of a program called Project SAFE in Chicago, which aims to protect children as mothers are treated for substance abuse.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Drug-treatment program cuts 27 positions
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