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Grant Proposal - Mental Health Care for Children of Addicted Parents

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salaries they receive. Consequently, in an insurance-driven healthcare environment, they are effectively denied access to any health care whatsoever, besides what is legally mandated in the context of emergency rooms.  This is a tragedy from any perspective, but it becomes particularly heartbreaking when one considers that many of these uninsured citizens are young children. When children are deprived of the  medical care they need, it is especially heinous, as this prevents them from getting the fair and equitable start to life they require in order to pursue their ambitions and  achieve their dreams. While it is beyond the scope of any one project to rectify the crisis facing health care for children in this country, there are certain needs that  can be adequately addressed with quality strategic planning and a minimum of funding. In this case, the area on which this project proposes to focus is the need for mental  health care interventions for children of alcoholic or substance-addicted parents. Problem Statement Theres no doubt that addiction is a major problem in the United States, and indeed,  across the world. Apart from the legal issues related to some types of substance abuse, addiction is a problem primarily because it exerts a powerful negative impact on others around  the addicted individual; this is particularly true for children of addicted parents. As revealed below, there is substantial evidence to suggest that the children of alcoholic parents are statistically indicated  to face a number of negative setbacks related to interrupted psychosocial development. Because these children also lack insurance or access to the mental health care system, they are unable to  access the interventions they need to overcome these setbacks. As such, an entire class of children is going underserved by the medical community and the local and state governments which