Sunday, February 24, 2013

4 New Laura's Law/MHSA Bills Could Help Mentally Ill in California

›
Bills Clarify MHSA Funds Can Be Used For Laura's Law and Make Other Improvements Following is our preliminary analysis of the four Ca...
Friday, February 1, 2013

Ed Koch, Billie Boggs, and Mental Illness

›
In the 1980s, when Ed Koch was mayor, the streets of New York were full of homeless psychotic mentally individuals who had been abandoned b...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Crowd Source Better Care for Mentally Ill in California

›
We are going to improve care for persons with serious mental illness in California by crowd-sourcing the hunt for waste and frau...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Are mentally ill more likely to be victims or perpetrators (and does it matter)?

›
Whenever there is "Psychotic Killer on Rampage" headline, some mental health advocates claim persons with mental illness are more ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Psychiatrists are Wrong To Not Help Reduce Gun Violence By Mentally Ill

›
  The New York Times  and Wall St. Journal reported on an argument being made by psychiatrists and psychologists that would allow them t...
Monday, January 14, 2013

MENTAL HEALTH PROVISIONS OF NYS SAFE GUN LAW (S-2230 A-2388)

›
Following are the major mental illness provisions of the SAFE    NYS GUN LAW  ( S-2230 A-2388)  passed by NYS Senate and Assembl...

Which persons with mental illness can and can't buy guns

›
Many are concerned by proposals to create lists of persons with mental illness with the purposes of limiting access to guns. The question ha...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Why the public won't listen to mental health advocates

›
While virtually the entire nation unites around the reasonable proposition that people with serious mental illnesses shou...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Are mentally ill more violent? Here's the definitive answer.

›
The stats on violence are clear when you look at the totality of violence studies , versus any single study.  Studies are also often intenti...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Five Point Action Plan for President Obama to Reduce Violence by Mentally Ill

›
President Obama said the federal government has to do something meaningful to prevent future shootings like the twenty-six in Newtown, Conne...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Cuomo Olmstead Commission may do more harm than good for mentally ill in New York

›
I have a sister in law with a serious mental illness and want to thank and congratulate Governor  Cuomo for issuing  Executive Order 84 on ...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

NYS Office of Mental Health: The wrong response to Hurricane Sandy

›
Whenever a tragedy like Hurricane Sandy strikes, the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) calls up mental health workers en masse an...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Will California’s next proposed tax increase work any better than the last?

›
Before deciding whether to support or oppose Proposition 30, California voters should take a close look at what happened with the last tax o...
Monday, October 22, 2012

NYS OMH Commissioner Leaving: Good News for NYS

›
Last week we wrote on a NYS Inspector General Report proving the NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH) falsifies discharge plans of people with...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

New Report: NYS Office of Mental Health Falsifies Discharge Plans for Mentally Ill

›
An investigation by acting New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott found officials at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center allowed t...
2 comments:
Friday, September 14, 2012

CA Mental Health Services Act (MHSA/Prop 63) Insider Dealing

›
Over $16 million in Prop 63/MHSA funds is being diverted to organizations associated with Oversight Commissioners "Insider D...
1 comment:
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Numerous setbacks in care for seriously mentally ill

›
Sorry for not sending summer Mental Illness News Sorry for not sending summer Mental Illness News. Here are recent develop...
2 comments: