forest, that backs up what I found, as well, but I can't seem to find my link again. My laptop adaptor bit the dust and now I can't boot the thing up... and the site I was on is locked away safely in the history tab of my now-dead machine - argh!

In the meantime... I do recall that specifically, those 'intensive needs' were bi-polar and severe autism, as well as fetal alcohol syndrome and reactive attachment disorder.

It appears that in AK, the governor authors what is called the "Governor's Budget", and then the legislature gets their chance to pick it apart, reallocate money to other causes, etc.... much like our federal system. I thought it interesting that the news site I read (and it was a legitimate news piece - not a blog!) kept capitalizing "Governor's Budget".

So she instigated the presence of that funding. It wasn't that the legislative body drew up the budget and she just signed off on it; it orignated with her, and they concurred and gave it a stamp of approval.

When it talks of 'intensive treatment,' from what I read she was raising funding for an in-patient center that treats children with especially severe behavioral issues related to the things I mentioned above - bi-polar, autism, fas, and rad, as well as a handful of other problems. This is for children who have tried intensive therapy while living at home or in a group home and have failed to make significant progress.

As someone with a young relative suffering from RAD, bi-polar, and ADHD who just went to live in a place such as this a week ago, I can only imagine that assistance at a place of this nature is a welome relief to famlies who are seemingly at the end of hope.

ETA: I'll pre-emptively say that I see that some on the left - at least the author of the barakforus.com website and others of that ilk - think Palin herself has BPD, so I'm bracing myself for statements saying she wanted funding for those disorders because she herself is sufferer. Of course, I guess that would make her an expert, soooo...
http://barackforus.com/2008/09/27/palin-bipolar/