The fate of a $1.4 million crisis stabilization grant from the state remains up in the air.
On Dec. 10, the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) announced it would channel $1.4 million CARES Act dollars into Haines via Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau to expand behavioral health services in the community and support displaced residents with housing assistance in the wake of the Dec. 2 landslide.
“We were counting on this money,”…

