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2002 E-News Bulletin Archives

December

12/30/2002 NYAPRS Reminder: Annual Mental Health Legislative Day Changed to April 15
12/30/2002 NYAPRS: Come for Jan. 7th Albany 'Call to Conscience' Events!
12/23/2002 Gov. Pataki vetoes Reinvestment bill
12/23/2002 Pataki: I'll Propose New Reinvestment Program in Coming Budget Proposal
12/20/2002 Gottfried: Plan to Assess Adult Home Residents' Needs is Overdue
12/20/2002 Job Postings: NYC Outreach, Case Management Positions
12/20/2002 W Post: Matter Over Mind?
12/18/2002 Bush Administration Releases $1 Billion for Housing, Services to Homeless
12/18/2002 Reuters: Many Jailed Adolescents Have Mental Disorders
12/18/2002 Times: Brain Imaging May Detect Schizophrenia in Early Stages
12/18/2002 Journal News: Westchester Nonprofits Oppose Local Funding Cuts
12/17/2002 Times, AP: NYS Attorney Gen'l Sues Adult Home Operator
12/17/2002 Post Star: Mental Health Group Gets Ready for Rally
12/17/2002 Michigan Appeals Court Upholds State Medicaid Drug Access Restrictions
12/17/2002 Court Decision Allows Bar Admission for Lawyer with History of Schizophrenia
12/16/2002 MHW: NY Governor Issues Recommendations on Adult Home Crisis, $ Details Awaited
12/16/2002 Daily News, TU, Post: NYS Leaders Jockey for Their Priorities, Expect Grim 03
12/16/2002 Journal News: Shrinking State Aid Imperils Services For Poor
12/13/2002 Times: New York State to Survey Mentally Ill in Residences
12/13/2002 NYSCCBH: Update on OMH COLA, Medicaid Fee Hike
12/13/2002 MHAN Urges Governor Pataki to Sign Reinvestment into Law
12/13/2002 Troy Record: Disabled Unabled to Afford Medications
12/12/2002 Call Governor Pataki Today to Sign Community MH Reinvestment into Law!
12/12/2002 NYS Office of Mental Health Releases 5-Year Plan; MHAN Seeks More Hearing Dates
12/10/2002 NYAPRS:More on the Blurring of Mental Health, Criminal Justice Systems
12/10/2002 Times: NYC Mayor Calls for 60,000 New Housing Units
12/06/2002 Pataki Estimates $2 Billion Deficit This Year, Will Collapse State Agencies?
12/06/2002 Journal News Editorial: NYS Must Properly Fund Adult Home Initiatives
12/05/2002 NYAPRS Conference '03 Special Early Registration Rates, Details
12/04/2002 AP: Ex-Mental Patients Protest at NYS Psychiatric Conference
12/04/2002 Times Union: NYS Budget Agency Predicts Huge Deficit
12/04/2002 Times: Patch Raises New Hope for Beating Depression
12/04/2002 Saratogian: Adult Homes Need Funding, Improvement
12/03/2002 VESID: Current Supported Employment Contracts Extended to July 03
12/03/2002 SAMHSA: Congressional Report on Co-Occurring Substance Abuse, Mental Disorders
12/03/2002 Reuters: Dutch to Study Potential Risks Associated with Serzone
12/02/2002 Inside Albany: Critics Tell Pataki Admin. How to Address Adult Home Scandal
12/02/2002 Bazelon: Congressional Sea Change Creates New Challenges
12/02/2002 NAMI:Congress Adjourns Without Acting on Spending, Soc. Security Disability Bill
12/02/2002 Alliance: Mental Patients to Protest At Dec 3 OMH Research Conference

November

11/27/2002 NYPR, Times, Gannett, AP: NYS Announces Adult Home Reforms Minus Budget Details
11/27/2002 Advocates:NY Adult Home Reforms Important 1st Step, Look to Budget, Housing Plan
11/27/2002 DOH Announces New Adult Home Initiatives; MHANYS, CSEA Slam 'Charade'
11/27/2002 VESID to Hold 6 Town Meetings on State Plan Amendment Dec 11-16
11/27/2002 Sederer: State Should Eliminate Discriminatory Mental Health Medicaid Cap
11/26/2002 Zelhof: A Time for Mental Health Reform
11/26/2002 Press & Sun Bulletin: NY Leaders Grapple w/ Tough Medicaid Decisions
11/25/2002 Gannett: NYS to Announce Adult Home Reform Plans Tomorrow
11/25/2002 Gannett: NY's Chances for Federal Medicaid Assistance Iffy
11/25/2002 Dec 17 Performance of 'Blue/Orange' to Benefit Urban Justice Ctr, Times Review
11/25/2002 Journal News Editorial: Full Report on Mentally Ill Warranted
11/25/2002 Newsday: NYS to Close 2 'Deplorable' Adult Homes
11/25/2002 Ottaway: Middletown PC May Be Shut by State Budget Crunch
11/22/2002 Job Posting: NYC Dep't Of Health/Mental Hygiene Director of Policy & Prog. Dev.
11/22/2002 Assembly to Hold Dec 5 NYC, Jan 15 Hearings on Drug Prices, Access
11/22/2002 Friedman: Address Children's Mental Health Needs Now!
11/22/2002 Dec 4 Conference: 'Impact of Employment on Disability Benefits, Medicaid'
11/22/2002 Times: NYS Budget Director Asks State Agencies to Cut 5% More This Fiscal Year
11/22/2002 IAPSRS: Congress Closes Session Without Passing 'Lady of Peace' Bill
11/21/2002 Times Union Editorial: 'Shunning the Mentally Ill'
11/21/2002 W. Post: New Schizophrenia Treatment Implants Raise Fears of Coercion
11/21/2002 Call Washington to Support Work Incentives Bill!
11/21/2002 NYAPRS Job Postings: New York City, Long Island Regional Educators
11/20/2002 NYAPRS Regional Forums Seek Grassroots Input in '03 Advocacy Priorities
11/20/2002 Times: Pataki Administration Must Act Now to Repair MH System 'in Shambles'
11/20/2002 Reuters: Justices to Decide State Immunity from Disability Bias Law
11/20/2002 AP: Budget Watchers Say December is Key to State's Finances
11/19/2002 Times: New Jersey Rips NY's Sending Hosp. Patients to Out of State Homes
11/19/2002 AP: Supreme Court to Consider More Limits on Disability-related Suits
11/19/2002 'Building a Network for Mentally Ill Hispanics'
11/19/2002 NYAPRS CNY Presents 'Forging New Partnerships Between Peers & Providers'
11/18/2002 Times: 'New York Exports Mentally Ill, Shifting Burden to Other States'
11/15/2002 NCD Releases Latest ADA and the Supreme Court Policy Paper
11/15/2002 NASMD: SSA Activates New Employer Outreach Program
11/15/2002 Jobs! Peer-run Agency Administrators/Staff in Poughkeepsie, Tioga, LI, Albany
11/15/2002 MHW: Field Praises Interim Nat. MH Commission's Report
11/14/2002 W. Post: New NIMH Chief to Focus Studies on Genes, Neurobiology
11/13/2002 MHW: Assembly Report Attacks NY Governor's Mental Health Policies
11/08/2002 Still Time to Register for NARPA's Outstanding Conference 2002 Nov 21-4 Lineup!
11/08/2002 Journal News: Childrens' Mental Health Treatment Hampered by Bureaucracy
11/08/2002 A&E Investigative Reports' Upcoming Mental Health Coverage
11/08/2002 Job Postings:Albany Anti-Discrimination Project Dir;NYC Peer Specialist Case Mgr
11/05/2002 MH Commission's Hogan: 'Spending Too Much Mental Health $ in The Wrong Places'
11/05/2002 JFA: Vote Today As if Your Life Depended On It!
11/05/2002 NAMI-NYS: What Voters and Legislators Should Know
11/05/2002 Journal News Series Rips Psych. Drug Practices for Children in NY's RTCs
11/04/2002 Luster Releases Scathing Report on NYS Mental Health Service System
11/04/2002 MH Weekly: NY Advocates Decry Client Mistreatment in Nursing Homes
11/04/2002 Assembly Dems Threaten to Subpoena Records of Adult Home Deaths

October

10/31/2002 HHS Funds 10 New Jail Diversion Mental Health Initiatives
10/31/2002 Report: Mental Health Recovery: What Helps and Hinders?
10/31/2002 McCall: 30% of State Hospital Staff Not Getting Adequate Crisis Training
10/31/2002 Harm Reduction Focus of Nov 15 Substance Abuse Treatment NYC Conference
10/29/2002 NYAPRS' Michael Stoltz, Rep. McCarthy Debate 'Our Lady of Peace Act'; NAMI Alert
10/29/2002 Times Union:Senate Leader Expects December Session for 'Drastic Budget Measures'
10/29/2002 Webcast: 'Using the Internet to Promote Self-Determination & Well-Being'
10/29/2002 IBO: Can Another NY/NY Deal Deliver Housing for the Homeless and City Savings?
10/28/2002 Voice Your Choice! Come to Tomorrow's NYC NYAPRS Regional Meeting
10/25/2002 Alert: Sen. Wellstone Killed in Plane Crash
10/23/2002 AP: Social Security Benefits Rise by Smallest COLA in 4 Years
10/23/2002 Call in to CMS' Oct. 29 Town Meeting on Restraints & Seclusion
10/23/2002 Adult Home Operators Lead Rally at Capitol Steps Today at 11
10/23/2002 Times Union: NY Must Stop Using Prisons as Substitute Mental Health Care
10/22/2002 CQC: New PABSS Program to Help Folks w/ Disabilities Return to Work Established
10/22/2002 Journal News: Pataki Defends Sending Mentally Ill to Nursing Homes
10/22/2002 Times Union: When Mentally Ill Inmates are 'Locked in the Box'
10/22/2002 Times Union: 'Being Mentally Ill and an Ex-Convict is a Double Strike..'
10/21/2002 Times, AP: NY Psych Centers Stop Referring to Controversial Nursing Home Units
10/21/2002 Times Union Highlights State Prison Mental Health Crisis
10/21/2002 AP: Mental Health Parity Bill Languishes in Washington
10/21/2002 MHANYS: 'The Unfinished Promise of Willowbrook'
10/17/2002 Daily News: 'Up From the Gutter' Profiles Pathways' Innovative Support
10/17/2002 CNN: Homeless Teens 8 Times More Likely to Have 'Mental Disorders'
10/17/2002 SSA: New Initiatives Promoting Work Opportunities for People w/ Disabilities
10/17/2002 Stigmafighter Assails CBS' 'Armed and Dangerous' Segment
10/17/2002 IAPSRS: Discriminatory Gun Bill on the Move in Senate, Call Washington Today!!
10/16/2002 NYAPRS: What is the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act?
10/16/2002 NYAPRS: A Sample of a CRIPA Investigation into a State Psychiatric Facility
10/16/2002 Pataki, McCall Spar on Mental Health Policy
10/16/2002 Daily News, NYSPR: $12 Billion NYS Budget Gap Looming?
10/11/2002 McCall Calls for Federal Investigation of NYS Mental Health Policy
10/11/2002 Newsday: Catholic Charities To End Case Management Care For Hundreds
10/11/2002 Sunday's 60 Minutes to Focus on Lady of Peace Act Controversy
10/11/2002 Leon: Power at the Polls: On Voting
10/10/2002 World Mental Health Day: Faces of Violence and Trauma
10/10/2002 AP, Times: Assembly to Probe Housing Mentally Ill in Nursing Homes
10/10/2002 Post-Gazette: Over 50% Imprisoned Teens Have Mental Illnesses
10/10/2002 Post-Gazette: Over 50% Imprisoned Teens Have Mental Illnesses
10/09/2002 Times Editorial: New York's Mentally Ill Deserve Better
10/09/2002 Pataki, McCall Statements on State Mental Health Crisis
10/09/2002 Schumer 'Lady of Peace' Bill on Hold: Keep up the Pressure on Washington!
10/09/2002 Post-Standard OP ED: Mental Health Cuts Won't Produce Savings
10/08/2002 Times: Legal Rights Groups Open Inquiries Into MH Nursing Home Scandal
10/08/2002 CSEA:Long-Term Residential Alternatives on Hospital Grounds 'Least Restrictive'?
10/07/2002 Times: NYS Mental Health Policy Rocked by Another Scandal, in Nursing Homes
10/07/2002 McCall Attacks State MH Policy; DOH: Adult Home Panel Report Will Guide Reforms
10/07/2002 HHS Awards $14 Million to Improve MH, SA, Health Care for Homeless
10/07/2002 The Key: New Resource Center To Address Discrimination and Stigma Opens
10/04/2002 AP, Daily News:NY/NY III Advocates Rally Outside Governor's NYC Office
10/04/2002 AP, Gannett: Governor Proposes Bill Giving Counties Medicaid Relief
10/04/2002 Coalition for Homeless:Pataki Medicaid Relief Plan Mustn't Trigger Local MH Cuts
10/04/2002 NYC Council Oct. 8 Hearing on Culturally Competent Mental Health Care
10/04/2002 Ithaca Journal: Luster Roast to Feature Mix of Notables
10/03/2002 Researcher Seeks Individuals Impacted by Assisted Outpatient Treatment in NYS
10/03/2002 NYS Dep't of Corrections Training Focuses on Inmate Mental Health
10/03/2002 Oct. 10 NYC Bar Ass'n Forum on Police Response to People w/ Psych. Disabilities
10/03/2002 NYSRA: Groups Decry Impact of New Union Neutrality Law
10/02/2002 NYAPRS ALERT: Call our US Senators TODAY to Urge a Hold on Discriminatory Bill!!
10/02/2002 Breaking Opp'ty! NYAPRS Hosts Software Demonstrations Next Week at 3 Local Sites
10/02/2002 Trouble Reaching Senator Schumer Today?
10/01/2002 Times, AP: Brooklyn Mental Health Court Has Official Opening
10/01/2002 Star-Gazette: NYS Gubernatorial Candidates Should Address Medicaid Growth
10/01/2002 Star-Gazette: NYS Gubernatorial Candidates Should Address Medicaid Growth
10/01/2002 Pataki Signs Bill Barring Use of Public Funds to Fight Union Organizing Efforts
10/01/2002 Sun: Maryland Gov Candidates Focus on Adequacy of Mental Health Services

September

09/30/2002 Concerns re Rising Medicaid Costs Make Headlines Across New York
09/30/2002 California Adopts 'Laura's Law' Establishing Involuntary Outpatient Commitment
09/30/2002 CoC Report: Suffolk Jail Faulted in Inmate's Suicide
09/27/2002 BBC: Patients Lack Info on Depression Drugs
09/27/2002 October 4 Thank You Call In for New NYS Olmstead Legislation
09/27/2002 AP: Counties Decry Rising Local Medicaid Costs
09/27/2002 NY Law Journal: Lobbying Law Raises Issues About Enforcement
09/26/2002 W. Post: Bipolar Drugs: Easy Rx, Hard to Take
09/26/2002 October 2 NYC March/Rally for Supportive Housing, NY/NY III
09/25/2002 Times Union: Adult Home Reform Must Be At the Top of New York's List
09/25/2002 Post-Gazette: Psychiatric Community Taking Interest in Needs of South Asians
09/25/2002 Post Standard: Onondaga Mental Health Director Proposes Cut to County Workforce
09/25/2002 Lawsuit: School Forced Boy to Take Psychiatric Drugs
09/24/2002 Times: Adult Home 'New Models' Panel's Report and Recommendations
09/24/2002 Times: Pataki Committed to Adult Homes Overhaul; Panel Makes Recommendations
09/24/2002 Connecticut Mental Health Dep't Commits to Recovery-Oriented Service System
09/24/2002 Oct 3-5 NYC Conference to Stop Supreme Court's Rollback of Civil Rights
09/23/2002 Times: Feds Proposing Cuts in Drugs, Devices for Disabled, Elder Americans
09/23/2002 Times Editorial: 'Housing the Homeless Mentally Ill'
09/23/2002 Study: Most People w/ Psychiatric Disabilities Aren't Violent
09/23/2002 'Today's Snake Pit': Westchester Journal News Editorial
09/19/2002 Governor Signs Most Integrated Setting Bill Into Law!
09/19/2002 IAPSRS: Funding Saved for National Consumer TA Centers...for Now!
09/19/2002 Times: Despite Inspections by State, Violations at Home Continued
09/19/2002 NYAPRS: Final Notice re Sept 25 'Soft Skills' Live Satellite Training
09/17/2002 Report:US Mental Health System in Crisis, Can't Provide Basic Services, Supports
09/17/2002 Times,AP:New State Adult Home Study Shows 'Inept, Wasteful, Fraudulent Services'
09/17/2002 Adult Home Reform Prioritized by Gov Pataki, Candidate McCall
09/17/2002 NYAPRS Releases Summary of CQC Study on Services for Adult Home Residents
09/17/2002 ALERT!!!: CALL ALBANY TODAY FOR DEAL ON NYS OLMSTEAD BILL!
09/12/2002 ALERT: Call Washington to Demand Restoration of Nat. Consumer TA Centers!
09/11/2002 Boston Globe: Budget Cuts Cut off Public Mental Health Care for 'Worried Well'
09/11/2002 NYAPRS Celebrates A Year of Healing, Hope and Service
09/11/2002 Jury: Agency to Pay $3.5 Million for Failing to Provide Proper Psychiatric Care
09/11/2002 Times: Disaster Tested the Limits of the Mental Health Profession
09/10/2002 Friedman: Advice for the President's Commission on Mental Health
09/10/2002 Times: Laid-Off Workers Swelling the Cost of Disability Pay
09/10/2002 British Report: Half of Women Inmates Have Mental Illness
09/10/2002 UK Study: Poverty & Drug Abuse, Not Mental Illness, Linked to Violence
09/09/2002 W. Post Reverses Stance, Supports Parity As Fair, Affordable
09/09/2002 Study: Older Men Risk Having Children w/ Schizophrenia
09/09/2002 Latinos and Mental Health Free Conference October 3 at Bronx PC
09/09/2002 W Post: APA Would Treat New Category, 'Relational Disorders', With Drugs
09/06/2002 Times Union: Pataki Confident State Budget Plan Will Hold
09/06/2002 The NYAPRS Conference is an Empowerment Conference!
09/06/2002 NYAPRS Conference's Special Focus on Peer-run Programs and Innovations!
09/06/2002 October 2 Rally in NYC for NY/NY III Housing Initiative
09/05/2002 NYAPRS Conference:The Most in Mental Health Advocacy & Public Policy Programs!
09/05/2002 NYAPRS Conference Features Strongest Cultural Competence & Diversity Program!
09/05/2002 Oral History Project to Film Peer Stories at the NYAPRS Conference
09/05/2002 NYAPRS Conference Features Special Programs for Administrators!
09/05/2002 NYAPRS Conference Features Array of Healing Programs, Experiences!
09/05/2002 All Roads Lead to NYAPRS Employment Programs at Next Week's Annual Conference!
09/04/2002 The NYAPRS Conference is an Exemplary Practices Conference!
09/04/2002 The NYAPRS Conference is a Trauma Conference!

August

08/29/2002 NYAPRS 20th Annual Conference Program Schedule: Register Today!
08/27/2002 NYAPRS: Sept 25 Live Satellite 'Soft Skills' Training to Aid Jobseekers' Success
08/26/2002 Criminalization of Mental Illness a National, International Tragedy
08/26/2002 Times: Too Early to Tell Whether NYS Budget Falls Apart After Election
08/23/2002 DOH Cites 9 More Adult Homes, Claims 2/3 of Homes Have Been Cited to Date
08/23/2002 Disability Advocates Urge Gov. Pataki to Sign 'Most Integrated Settings' Bill
08/23/2002 Participate in Buffalo's Sept. 19 Medicaid Buy-In Roundtable Discussion
08/22/2002 Red Cross, Sept 11 Fund to Pay for Mental Health Trauma Treatment
08/19/2002 Nat. Governor's Ass'n Urges Most Integrated Settings for People w/ Disabilities
08/19/2002 MHW, LA Times: Feds Announce Final HIPAA Privacy Rules
08/08/2002 NYAPRS Releases Details, Registration Form for 20th Anniversary Conference!
08/06/2002 MHASEP: Nat. Consumer TA Centers' Funding Gains Senate Support, Action Needed!
08/06/2002 Times Profiles New NYC Mental Health Commissioner Sederer
08/06/2002 Report: Human Rights Abuses Rampant at UN-Run Kosovo MH Facility
08/02/2002 AP: McCall Says State Did Little To Make Adult Homes Safer
08/02/2002 Troy: 2nd Inmate Death from Alcohol Withdrawal Fuels Calls for Jail Diversion
08/02/2002 LA Times: Seeking Alternatives to Drugs for Depression
08/02/2002 Advotec: Free Peer Advocacy Training in Queensbury August 15-16
08/01/2002 NYAPRS Announces Annual Award Winners, to be Honored at Sep't Conference
08/01/2002 HHS' Thompson Creates HHS Office on Disability, Urges Medicare Drug Benefit
08/01/2002 Maine, Missouri Jail Suicides Underscore National Mental Health Prison Crisis

July

07/31/2002 NAMI: US Senate Considering Housing, Homeless Programs 2003 Budget
07/31/2002 Journal News: County Lauds Putnam Family & Community Services' Efforts
07/30/2002 Job Posting: NYAPRS Seeks NYC/LI Advance Directives Educator
07/29/2002 Buffalo News:By Default,County Jails Have Become Our Largest Mental Institutions
07/29/2002 Judge:Mental Health Facility's 'Disciplinary Detention' Program Unconstitutional
07/29/2002 Philly DPW Agrees to Find Appropriate Homes for Adult Home Residents
07/25/2002 Times: NYS Health Dep't Cites 4 More Adult Homes for Array of Violations
07/25/2002 AP: Health Department Adult Home Heat Policy Assailed
07/23/2002 Freeman: Kingston Adult Home Owner Admits Stealing from Residents
07/23/2002 Advocates Bar Philly Adult Home Door to Insist on Proper Alternative Placements
07/19/2002 Today's Nat. MH Commission Agenda: Evidence-Based Practices, Leader Testimony
07/19/2002 Massachusetts to Deter Docs From Prescribing Multiple Psychiatric Drugs
07/19/2002 Guardian: When Hospital Is a Prison
07/17/2002 SAMHSA: New Self-Help Booklets Promote Recovery For People with Mental Illnesses
07/17/2002 OMH Launches Ticket to Work Website
07/17/2002 Luster: Parity Bill Would Help Folks Get Mental Health Services
07/17/2002 Canadian TV Ad Reference to Schizophrenia Altered After Public Outcry
07/17/2002 State: 3 Adult Homes Cited for 90-degree Temperatures
07/16/2002 MH Weekly: House Passes Safeguards for SSI Recipients w/ Fraudulent Rep Payees
07/12/2002 Sun: Advocates Up in Arms About Proposed Mental Health Legislation
07/12/2002 Express-News: Federal Mental Health Parity Law Passage Likely
07/12/2002 CMHS: New Self-Help Booklets Promote Recovery for People w/ Mental Illnesses
07/09/2002 Study: Indian 'Healing Environment' Equally Effective in Improving Mental Health
07/09/2002 Bill to Require Counselors to Consult w/ Docs re Folks w/ Major Mental Illnesses
07/03/2002 Times: Health Dep't Steps Up Efforts to Cool Adult Homes
07/03/2002 Advocates: SSA is Torpedoing Pilot Program to Counsel Consumers on Employment
07/03/2002 Times on Passing of Willowbrook Whistleblower, NAMI Founder Max Schneier
07/01/2002 Report Slams NYS Prisons for Poor Mental Health Care
07/01/2002 Advance: Ocean House Adult Home Operators Indicted for Grand Larceny, Fraud
07/01/2002 View, Send Comments to President's New Freedom Commission Website Online
07/01/2002 Times: Antidepressants Lose 'Miracle Drug' Status

June

06/28/2002 Van Tosh: New Freedom MH Commission Should Focus on Olmstead
06/28/2002 Van Tosh: New Freedom MH Commission Should Focus on Olmstead
06/28/2002 FEGS LIFE: 11th Annual Sexual Abuse Survivors Show 2002 on Long Island
06/27/2002 New British Forced Mental Health Treatment Law Assailed
06/27/2002 DOL Innovative Demonstration Grants for Youth With Disabilities
06/27/2002 Australian Device Mimicking Hallucinations Used to Treat, Inform Public
06/24/2002 On the Passing of Justin Dart, the 'Abraham Lincoln' of Disability Movement
06/24/2002 ADAPT's Senate Sit-In, ILC Drive & Passage of NY's Most Integrated Setting Bill
06/24/2002 Journal News: 'When Home (for a Child) is a Residential Treatment Center'
06/24/2002 NYAPRS NYC July 24 Regional Mtg Features Forum w/ New MH Commissioner Sederer
06/21/2002 Legislature Passes Bill Aimed at Boosting NYS Compliance w/ ADA, Olmstead
06/21/2002 Survivor/Disability Leaders Assail Mental Health Commission Under-Representation
06/21/2002 NYAPRS:Advocates Laud Outgoing Champion Luster;Luster Hails Reinvestment Passage
06/21/2002 OMH Hosts NARO Conference August 12-15 in Albany
06/21/2002 Final Reminder: June 26 Work Incentives Live Telecast, Ogdensburg Added
06/20/2002 Mental Health Big Winner in Albany This Year: Who's So Powerless Now?
06/20/2002 MH Weekly, Madnation on New National Criminal Justice/Mental Health Report
06/20/2002 Jail Suicide Hike Linked to Rising Incarceration of People w/ Psych Disabilities
06/20/2002 Buffalo News: Gowanda Residents, Officials Seek to Block Community Residence
06/19/2002 Alert:: Community Reinvestment Passes Senate, Will Pass Assembly Shortly!
06/19/2002 AP: High Court Narrows Disabilities Law..Again
06/19/2002 Crain's: Childrens' Psychiatric Emergency Room Use Soars
06/18/2002 MH Weekly: NY Officials Propose Adult Home Reforms,Advocates Favor Long Term Fix
06/18/2002 OP ED Urges Mental Health Services Reform Focused on Self-Sufficiency
06/18/2002 Breaking News: VESID Contracts Extended till December 2002
06/18/2002 The Race for the National Disability Vote:Democrats Launch Disability Outreach
06/18/2002 Breaking News: NYS Assembly Releases Adult Home Reform Legislation
06/17/2002 MH Weekly: NY Debates Reinvestment, ECT, Parity As Session Nears End
06/17/2002 AP, Post: NYS Legislature's 2002 Sessions Nears Completion
06/17/2002 Alert: Call Your Senator Today to Pass ECT Reporting Legislation!
06/17/2002 Nat. MH Commission's Meets Tomorrow; Advocates Decry Lack of CSX Representation
06/14/2002 Report Seeks Alternatives to Criminalization of Americans w/ Psych. Disabilities
06/14/2002 Assembly Passes Sovereign Immunity & Olmstead Council Bills, NYAPRS Resolution
06/14/2002 NYC Council to Hold Adult Home Public Hearing June 27
06/14/2002 Job Posting: One Stop WORKS for All Project Coordinator
06/13/2002 Assembly Leaders Decry 'Warehousing,' Unveil Adult Home Plan
06/13/2002 FIT: E-Mail Senator Bruno Today to Pass Senate Parity Bill
06/13/2002 Sudders: Outpatient Commitment Law Won't Help the Mentally Ill
06/12/2002 Times:NYS To Create Office to Investigate Adult Homes;MediSys Takes Over Seaport
06/12/2002 NY Legislative Session Winds Down:Uncertain Fate of ECT, Parity Adult Home Bills
06/12/2002 NYS Assembly Releases Recommendations for Adult Home Reform
06/12/2002 GAO: SSA Has Failed to Address Backlog Crisis in Disability Benefit Applications
06/11/2002 Recovery Report: Call Your Senator Tomorrow for Parity; More on Reinvestment
06/11/2002 Health Dep't Posts First 3 Reports of Cited Adult Homes; Seaport Gets Receiver?
06/11/2002 Congressional Panel: Area Children Affected by 9/11 Need Better MH Care
06/11/2002 NYAPRS:June 26 Live Teleconference'Developing Comprehensive Employment Supports'
06/07/2002 Times: Questions on Care for Mentally Ill Put Pataki Team on the Defensive
06/07/2002 NYAPRS Testimony at Assembly Albany Adult Home Hearing; AP Coverage
06/07/2002 Job Posting: NYC Employment Program & Policy Analyst
06/07/2002 Breaking News: NYS Legislature to Pass New Reinvestment Bill

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