Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 21, 2013

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New Mexico struggles to fill vacant government positions By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

The state Children, Youth and Families Department is having a hard time recruiting front-line workers in its Protective Services and Juvenile Justice Services divisions. In a letter Friday, state Rep. Luciano “Lucky” Varela, D-Santa Fe, asked Gov. Susana

Martinez to fill vacancies at both divisions, which have vacancy rates of 15 percent and 14 percent respectively. “These program areas are crucial to overseeing the public safety of one of New Mexico’s most vulnerable populations — at risk children,” Varela said in his letter. “With

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Experts tackle exchange The federal government has enlisted a team of computing pros to fix glitches on its health insurance website. NATIoN & WoRLD, A-3

HIGHeST STATe VACANCy RATeS

30.1% 26.6% 25.8%

A long time coming

22.3% 21.5%

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General Services Department

Regulation and Licensing

Division of Vocational Rehabilitation

Corrections Department

Taxation and Revenue

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New Living Treasures named

‘Bad’ funeral A mock funeral for Walter White draws pretend mourners to an Albuquerque-area cemetery. PAGe A-8

GAY RIGHTS

Group pushes to move GOP to middle By Peter Wallsten

The Washington Post

Owen Kunkle helped establish the Presbyterian Medical Services Hospice Center in the 1990s and now works as the chaplain and therapist there. COURTESY PHOTO

Barbara Goede, pictured at her home Thursday with Mimi, her 10-year-old calico cat, says she has long valued the importance of giving to the community. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

Sarah Taylor, pictured Friday at her Santa Fe home, says she has long followed the Living Treasures announcements and feels she is in ‘great company.’ CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN

Sunday ceremony to recognize group of those who’ve made a difference By Uriel J. Garcia

The New Mexican

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arbara Goede grew up on a farm in Illinois and remembers that any time neighboring farmers needed help, her parents were there for them. The importance of giving back to the community stuck with her, even after she moved to Santa Fe in 1988, Goede said. She established the Barbara Goede Foundation, which gives money to local groups such as the Spanish Colonial Arts Society, the Santa Fe Farmers Market and the Railyard Park and Plaza, among others. Goede and two other Santa Feans will be named Santa Fe Living Treasures at a ceremony Sunday at

the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe. “I was flabbergasted,” Goede said about learning she had been selected. The 82-year-old said her parents taught her that sharing with others was the right thing to do. “Anytime somebody came to the farm, they never left empty-handed,” she said. “We were not a wealthy family, but we would always share something from the farm.” Even now that she is retired, Goede volunteers for the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, and she has served 20 years as a docent and tour guide at El Rancho de las Golondrinas. The Santa Fe Living Treasures is an organization that twice a year honors elders who have served the community. Local people nominate candidates,

who must be at least 70 years old to be considered, and the group then selects the honorees. uuu

Sarah Taylor, 75, another Santa Fean who will be recognized Sunday, said she is still in awe she will be named a Living Treasure. Growing up, Taylor attended a church where she learned to play the piano, she said. She used this talent to give back to the church by playing during its services. When she moved from California to Santa Fe almost 20 years ago, she continued to help out. For example, she volunteered to accompany the performers in musicals presented by Kitchen

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WASHINGTON — Almost no elected Republicans support samesex marriage. The party’s influential social-conservative wing sees “traditional marriage” as a defining issue. And while most major Democrats are rushing to embrace gay marriage, none of the most prominent potential Republican presidential candidates have taken that step. But a powerful group of Republican donors, who see the GOP’s staunch opposition to gay rights as a major problem, is trying to push the party toward a more welcoming middle ground — where candidates who oppose marriage rights can do so without seeming hateful. The behind-the-scenes effort is being led largely by GOP mega-donor Paul Singer, a hedge fund executive whose son is gay, and former Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman, who revealed his homosexuality in 2010, long after he had left the GOP leadership. Singer’s advocacy group, the American Unity Fund, has been quietly prodding Republican lawmakers to take a first step toward backing gay rights by voting for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The mea-

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Kennedy’s vision for mental health remains elusive By Michelle R. Smith

The Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The last piece of legislation President John F. Kennedy signed turns 50 this month: the Community Mental Health Act, which helped transform the way people with mental illness are treated and cared for in the United States. Signed on Oct. 31, 1963, weeks before Kennedy was assassinated, the legislation aimed to build mental health centers accessible to all Americans so that those with mental illnesses could be treated while working and living at home, rather than being kept in neglectful and often abusive state institutions, sometimes for years on end. Kennedy said when he signed the bill that the legislation to build 1,500 centers would mean the population of those living in state mental hospitals — at that time more than 500,000 people — could be cut in half. In a special message to Congress earlier that year, he said the idea was to suc-

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President John F. Kennedy signs the Community Mental Health Act on Oct. 31, 1963. The last legislation Kennedy signed brought some positive changes, but it was never fully funded. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

cessfully and quickly treat patients in their own communities and then return them to “a useful place in society.” Recent deadly mass shootings, including at the Washington Navy Yard and a Colorado movie theater,

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have been perpetrated by men who were apparently not being adequately treated for serious mental illnesses. Those tragedies have focused public attention on the mental health system and made clear that Kennedy’s vision was never fully realized.

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The legislation did help to usher in positive life-altering changes for people with serious illnesses such as schizophrenia, many of whom now live normal, productive lives with jobs and families. In 1963, the average stay in a state institution for someone with schizophrenia was 11 years. But only half of the proposed centers were ever built, and those were never fully funded. Meanwhile, about 90 percent of beds have been cut at state hospitals, according to Paul Appelbaum, a Columbia University psychiatry professor and expert in how the law affects the practice of medicine. In many cases, several mental health experts said, that has left nowhere for the sickest people to turn, so they end up homeless, abusing substances or in prison. The three largest mental health providers in the nation today are jails: Cook County in Illinois, Los Angeles County and Rikers Island in New York.

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‘The Guild’ The Jean Cocteau Cinema plans screenings of all six seasons of Felicia Day’s Web-based comedy series beginning with the first two today; includes a Skype Q&A with series performers Jeff Lewis and Sandeep Parikh, 6:20 p.m., 466-5528, 418 Montezuma Ave., $10, discounts available, jeancocteaucinema.com.

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