Some money in mental health budget misses its mark

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In this photo taken Saturday, July 14, 2012, An Huynh, a Vietnamese language instructor teaches the language to a group of children at the Asian Pacific Counseling Family Wellness center in Sacramento,Calif. Voters approved Proposition 63 in 2004 to provide funding for mental health services. A fifth of the revenue goes to activities, like the wellness center, to prevent mental illnesses from becoming more severe, but some mental health advocates say the money should go to treatment and not wellness centers. Supporters of the wellness program say they are the best way to get people who might have mental illness in the door where their needs can be identified and treated.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)