The Abbe Center for Community Care, for 40 years the provider of Linn County’s most intensive care for people with mental illness or developmental disability, may be nearing the end of its useful life – at least in its present form. “We’ve got a large building that is probably too large,” said Dan Strellner, president [...]

  The operators of Linn County’s residential care facility will pay just $1 rental through June 30, county supervisors decided this morning. Supervisors approved a request from Abbe Inc. to reduce annual rent for the rest of the fiscal year as they deal with changes in state funding. Abbe, a non-profit, operates Abbe Center for [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Linn County supervisors formally adopted the first of more than $5 million in cuts to services for mental health and the developmentally disabled (MHDD) needed to balance this year’s budget. The board approved the plan proposed last week by the county’s MHDD Advisory Board. Most of the planned savings will come by [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — More than 90 Linn County residents with mental illness would be moved into neighborhood group homes as part of a cost-cutting proposal approved Thursday by a county committee. The plan also calls for laying off about 15 workers who provide services to the mentally ill or developmentally disabled. “We’ve been dealt a [...]