Dozens of employees at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were laid off in the wave of government shutdown firings last week, multiple sources told ABC News. Best known for overseeing the rollout of the 988 suicide prevention hotline, SAMHSA works with state and local governments on mental health and addiction initiatives and gives out billions in grants. The firings, which began Friday, include widespread layoffs of staff that oversee child, adolescent and family mental health services, sources told ABC News. Roughly one in 10 of SAMHSA's 900 staff were fired in the spring Department of Government Efficiency cuts . Other staff were recently transferred to other programs in the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees SAMHSA. A HHS spokesperson tol

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