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41 <br />MENTAL HEALTH TASK FORCE REPORT <br />"I understand that North Carolina is short on revenues, but what I don't understand is why they would <br />dismantle something when there's nothing in its place for people with mental illness," she said. <br />She points out that when mental health care reform legislation was passed in 2001, community-based <br />services were seen as the linchpin by which those with mental illness could be moved out of state institutions <br />and reintegrated into their communities. <br />"Now they're the worst thing in the world?... <br />"How could we be that wrong? <br />39 <br />