Fairfax's Ailing Poor Waiting: "If you are poor and mentally ill in Fairfax County, it can take you as long as six months to see a therapist. If you need a place in a group home, you could be waiting for years.
Those bleak assessments come from the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board, an agency that operates mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse programs for the county on a $149 million budget."
