Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Federal Mental Health Funds Fail To Reach Mentally Ill

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Role of Federal Government’s Attempts to Improve Services for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness E. Fuller Torrey, ...
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Obamacare & Supreme Court leave mentally ill uninsured

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While some are condemning and others applauding the Supreme Court decision on health care reform, the decision leaves in place federally ma...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Lynn Shuster: Hero of Mental Illness Advocacy

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I once wrote an essay on my hero, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey . Today, it's about another hero: Lynn Shuster. Lynn Shuster (and her partner in ...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Mental Health Industry, 2. Mentally Ill, 0.

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In New York State the battle to improve care for people with serious mental illness has become increasingly polarized. On the one side, favo...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

June Update: Mental Illness Around the Country

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1. Make Greater Use of Assisted Outpatient Treatment Assisted Outpatient Treatment is less expensive, less restrictive, and more hu...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

NYAPRS proposes reducing funding for medical treatment of mentally ill

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Medicaid realignment in New York is expected to generate $10 billion in savings over five years and the plan is to spend much of it on medic...
Monday, June 4, 2012

New York Needs Kendra's Law: You can help

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(May 2012, New York) Kendra's Law allows courts to order a small subset of people with serious mental illness who have a past history o...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

California Bill To Extend Laura's Law Scheduled For Vote

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ALERT FROM CALIFORNIA TREATMENT ADVOCACY COALITION FROM: Carla Jacobs, Randall Hagar, Chuck Sosebee & Mark Gale May 22, 2012 We need...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

NYS Mental Health "Leaders" Race to Avoid Mentally Ill. Call Now

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Please call Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver at 518-455-3791 and Governor Cuomo at: (518) 474-8390 and urge them to Close the Cracks In Ke...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Assemblyman Felix Ortiz and Lack of Care for Mentally Ill

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Earlier this month New York City Police Officer Eder Loor was stabbed in the brain by Terrence Hale, 26, a young man allegedly with untreat...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Three Reasons I Won't Celebrate Mental Illness Awareness Week

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1. MIAW is based on the false premise that there is stigma to having a mental illness. This first full week in Week in May is being celebr...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Laura's Law could save California's mentally ill and keep public safer

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The murder of 61-year-old Earlene Grove by her mentally ill daughter Sunni Jackson, in Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo most likely wouldn’t hav...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Assemblyman Felix Ortiz puts police, public and mentally ill at risk

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A version of this appeared in NY Daily News on April 18. Yesterday, the mother of Terrence Hale called New York’s Finest about her mentall...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Connecticut tries to help treatment providers hear from parents of people with mental illness

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A big problem that people with serious mental illness have in getting the best possible care, is the treatment providers rarely have complet...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Statement on Kingsboro Psychiatric Hospital Not Closing

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The provision that would have closed Kingsboro Psychiatric Hospital in Brooklyn was removed from the New York State budget, meaning the hosp...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Department of Justice Certifies Crime Prevention Program for People with Serious Mental Illness

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Today the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs certified Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) as an Effective Crime Preven...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Recent Trends in Mental Illness

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Trend: More psychiatric hospitals close. Local NAMIs start to fight back. The trend towards closing state psychiatric hospitals in spite o...
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