Relative calls for drastic action for mental health services

Tanya Marschke
Updated May 30 2019 - 5:50pm, first published 5:30pm
IN CRISIS: Melanie Townsend says people, including her relative, are slipping through the gaps when it comes to mental health services in Orange. Photo: JUDE KEOGH
IN CRISIS: Melanie Townsend says people, including her relative, are slipping through the gaps when it comes to mental health services in Orange. Photo: JUDE KEOGH

Orange mental health services are in crisis according to an Orange woman has a relative who slipped through the gaps into drug use and homelessness - he's currently in jail.

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Tanya Marschke

Tanya Marschke

Journalist

I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.

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