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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1997
Page
2
SPIRIT faces drastic funding gaps as a $31,000 annual SRS grant and a $5,000 top-up fail to cover costs for a residential program serving dozens. Executive director Roxie Lindquist warns doors could close by Jan. 15 without new funding, while Medicaid reimbursements remain uncertain.
Crystal Dirks, also known as Casper, reveals a history of near fatal self harm and abuse. She recounts cutting veins, a 55 mph car jump, a pencil throat injury, and multiple hospitalizations. She says restraints, surgery, and life lifting saved her while she endured years at Osawatomie State Hospital and ongoing struggles.
The speaker, a SPIRIT resident, describes strong publishing interest in three poetry books and plans for an autobiography to be adapted into a movie. She credits SPIRIT director Roxie Lindquist, nicknamed Ma, with ongoing support and repeated chances that helped her build self-esteem and feel deserving of good.
Elgin Woodward, 40, came to Spirit from Medicaladge for-profit nursing home and previously OS State Hospital. She says Spirit is family, aims to reform mental health, and strives for a GED and better mobility with a sports wheelchair while juggling $514 monthly benefits and budgeting challenges.
A voice recalls poverty during Christmas in Arkansas with tales of rabbit meals, gifts, and care for family. The speaker, in a wheelchair, describes dropping a John Wayne picture for Roxie and feeling remorse yet cherishing SPIRIT and the season’s loving warmth.
Michael Ainesworth, 28, has spent much of adulthood in and out of facilities including Osawatomie State Mental Hospital and Medicalodge. He has been described as extremely psychotic at a 1996 admission and is considered an unreliable historian by hospital staff. Now living with SPIRIT Inc in Ottawa, he speaks of stability and coping with feelings while noting past head injury theories.
Kansas State Rep. Ralph Tanner a Baldwin Republican criticizes SPIRIT in Ottawa and Bert Nash plans to put apartments for the mentally ill in Baldwin. He calls for licensure and tighter state regulation, cites nonresidents in services and fears community safety while noting local opposition and a HUD funded project.
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