WOODSTOCK – If the state doesn’t figure out its budget mess, Joseph Adler might lose his home.

Adler has been living for 10 years in the apartments run by Thresholds, a Woodstock-based agency that serves the mentally ill. Because of the ongoing crisis in Springfield, the group is set to lose $166,370 in state funding – 12 percent of its own budget.

That means no more money to keep open some of its housing programs. No more services to help clients find employment. And likely, as with other county mental health agencies, a round of staff layoffs.

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