Services for families of Missourians with mental illnesses face budget cuts

By: Steph Quinn

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: June 2, 2026

Words: 1,339

Last Updated: 1 week, 2 days ago

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When Barb Buchanan walked into her first support group for family members of people with mental illness in Columbia around 2010, Heather Harlan greeted her with a “huge smile.”

Harlan started attending the meetings, run by NAMI Missouri, the statewide affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, in 2007. Her adult son, Micah Bacus, was living with serious depression, and the peer-led meetings provided space to share resources and “a buffet of coping …

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