The impact of the budget crisis in Illinois is impacting the local community. In Rock Island, Transitions Mental Health Services laid off seven staff members on Thursday. Funding for that agency is also being cut.

Transitions serves over two hundred clients a year, providing a number of services to people with mental disorders. Some of those people live at the agency's residential facility.

Jen Briggs is one of the staff members who was laid off. She is worried about the clients that are not going to get the program care they need.

The Child Abuse Council serves several counties in Illinois. The council is the local, community based response to child abuse, offering among other things, parent support and children's trauma services. Two staff members at the Child Abuse Council were also laid off.

Executive Director Sue Swisher wants to know why the state budget cuts always seem to fall on the backs of what she calls the most vulnerable people in our communities.