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In Connecticut, an ethnic group of citizens who are originally from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, about 100 people will meet with National Assembly member state to discuss mental health issues that this community has gone through. The talks will take place this coming Saturday, 4.
Mental health problems are more attention than before by the US Congress recently after Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate, Connecticut the Democratic party has proposed legislation on mental health.
The bill, called The 21st Century Cures Act is the Senate passed in early December 2016. The bill would allow the expenditure of $ 1 billion over two years to help the government eliminate addiction opium and the prevention and treatment of mental illness.
Senators will meet with minority communities from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam in the state of Connecticut on Saturday, March 4 next to explain the proposed law and to learn more about the needs of the citizens of the Southeast Asian community.
Mary F. Scully, president of the Association backed Khmer Health in Connecticut, which provides health care services to people Khmer citizens and Asia for more than 20 years, said the main purpose of the community to meet with Senator Chris Murphy is important to ask questions one that focuses on the lack of protection from the government mental health of minority communities.
She said: 'We will talk with senators about a lack of research data on the mental health of our community. We need an expert in community health. And we need to translate better than this. We also want to ask whether the money received from the proposed mental health legislation will come to our community how.
Mary Scully added that indigenous communities Khmer Laos and Vietnam in the United States, mostly through war and genocide is a group of people The rate of mental trauma and emotional stress are higher than ever. But mental health care services to minority communities get very low due to lack of sponsorship and community service organizations the lack of attention from legislators about mental health issues.
She said: 'So many people can not get good mental health services and mental health experts have not received appropriate salaries for their main job.
However, Chris Murphy, said in his speech before the Senate in the past, that the proposed health legislation mental will strengthen federal laws to American health insurance companies to provide health services, physical and mental health equally. He said citizens will get more health care and better than before.
Related mental health problems, the VOA has previously reported that mental health problems are correlated with physical health. Compared with the general population of Americans Khmer Americans have diabetes type 2, double the rate of mental stress and seven times trauma rate 15 times higher than the general American population.
Through talks with Senator Chris Murphy, this coming Saturday at Mary Scully, a mental health expert in the community hopes to have funding to support community-based health organizations and experts to better mental health, especially to Asian ethnic communities.
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