Thursday, August 15, 2013

California's Prop 63/Mental Health Services Act Fails Seriously Mentally Ill

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In 2004, Californians altruistically passed a 1% tax on millionaires specifically to fund services for people with serious mental illness. A...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Two new studies should lead to widespread use of Laura’s Law in California

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Two new studies (including one reported in the New York Times ) should lead to widespread adoption of Laura’s Law in California...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Two Studies Should Lead to Radical Change in Mental Illness Treatment

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The first study was conducted in Australia and found    individuals with schizophrenia – even those who do not have substance abuse problem...

Assisted Outpatient Treatment for Seriously Mentally Ill Cuts Costs in Half

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According to a just released study in the July 30, 2013, American Journal of Psychiatry , mandating Assisted Outpatient Treatment ( AOT ) fo...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Anti Stigma Effort Fortunately Fails in New York State

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We are happy to report that the effort to get a donation check-off put on NYS Tax forms (A5953) to encourage people to make a donation to ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Darrell Steinberg's CA Bill Dangerous to Families of Mentally ill, Mentally Ill, and Public

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Imagine if someone who wanted to call 911 to report a crime in progress had to give their name and know that it would be provided to the cri...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

Obama's Mental Health Conference: Irrelevant at Best and Likely Harmful

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President Obama and Vice President Biden are gathering the usual suspects for a mental health conference today focused on ' stigma '...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Representative Tim Murphy Calls out SAMHSA For Failure to Help Seriously Mentally Ill

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Opening Statement of the Honorable Tim Murphy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Hearing on “Examining SAMHSA’s Role in Delivering...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Testimony: SAMHSA FAILS TO HELP SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL

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Mental Illness Policy Org has written on problems at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (SAMHSA) .  The Energy and Comme...

Joe Bruce Testimony to Congress: My Mentally Ill Son Killed my Wife:

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Late one afternoon in June 2006, Joe Bruce of Caratunk, Maine, came home from work to find his wife dead. He called 911 and told the dispatc...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Darrel Steinberg pseudo-support for Laura's Law

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( Updated 9/3/13) Urgent: Contact Governor Jerry Brown immediately (Sept. 2013) and urge him to sign SB 585 which will help clarify tha...
Monday, May 6, 2013

How to Fix New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH)

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Testimony of DJ Jaffe, Executive Director, Mental Illness Policy Org to NYS Office of Mental Health   May 3, 2...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Mental Illness Awareness and Improvement Act (S-689) Not Written To Help Mentally Ill

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Mental Illness Awareness and Improvement Act (S 689) may go to Senate this week. It will increase funding for "Mental Health First Aid...
Monday, April 15, 2013

My Mentally Ill Son versus Your Son With Another Type of Illness

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Laura Pogliano, a mother and advocate in Maryland wrote on the difference between her experience of having a child with serious ...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

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

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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

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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

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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)?

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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

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  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)

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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 ...