Human Services

Mentally or physically disabled people who can’t work and will lose healthcare from the state through General Assistance-Unemployable: 6,000

Residential facilities for developmentally disabled that will close: 1

Amount cut from the WorkFirst program which helps unemployed people find jobs: 5 percent

Number of unemployed Washingtonians in March 2009: 327,442

Amount cut from low-income drug treatment services: 25 percent

Amount cut from low-income detoxification services: 50 percent

Number of children and adults in Washington who needed alcohol or drug treatment in 2007: 130,389

Number of people who received alcohol or drug treatment in 2007: 41,830

Number of people applied for alcohol and drug abuse treatment from the state in 2007, but were waitlisted: 1,397

Professionals cut from the budget who help parents obtain services when chemical dependency may be a factor in abuse or neglect of their children: 69 percent

Number of parents who are referred to chemical dependency programs each year on average: 6,192

Approximate number of parents who will not be referred to chemical dependency programs each year: 4,273

Number of foster children in Washington: 10,000

Cuts to the “continuum f care,” which provides a variety of services for at-risk families, including parenting classes, referrals to drug treatment programs, and other preventative resources: 90 percent

Number of foster care kids who turn 18 after July 2009 and receive help transitioning to adulthood including college: 0

Number of new Intensive Resource Homes that will be available for foster children with severe needs: 0

Number of secure facility beds that will be left in the state who can hold runaway children for five days to determine their situation: 45

Cut to the street youth outreach program for runaway children: 100 percent