Kudos to the First Lady

First lady Ginger Beebe has done a wonderful job of bringing focus to a very serious problem in Arkansas--children's mental health services. Her travels throughout the state, talking with dozens, if not hundreds of families caught up in this bureaucratic maze, was the subject of a front page story in this morning's Democrat Gazette. Act 1593 of 2007, created the Children's Behavioral Health Care Commission to determine ways we can shore up and improve services to so many Arkansas families. Mrs. Beebe will report her findings to the commission in the near future, and hopefully the commission will come forward with some definitive ideas to improve mental health services to these young Arkansans. Mrs. Beebe has the ball rolling in the right direction and it's no time to stop that momentum.