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2006 E-News Bulletin Archives

December

12/29/2006 NYAPRS Recovery Report Review 2006
12/29/2006 NYAPRS Year End Review
12/19/2006 NY Release Most Integrated Setting Coordinating Council's 1st Report
12/19/2006 NY Release Most Integrated Setting Coordinating Council's 1st Report
12/11/2006 Times Opposes' Rush to Judgement on Sex Offenders'
12/11/2006 Mentally ill are routinely subjected to undeserved slights
12/11/2006 Mental health: Some find it difficult to get help for youths
12/11/2006 Renewed Worries on Medicare Drug Plans
12/11/2006 Inmate is unstable; the system is just nuts
12/11/2006 Suicide in 2 Ethnic Groups Is Topic at Assembly Hearing
12/11/2006 VNS Tx for Bipolar in WA
12/09/2006 Mental health at the top of health policy agenda worldwide
12/09/2006 Senators want Army mental health inquiry
12/06/2006 cqc on cdt
12/04/2006 NYT: Disease Management in West Virginia
12/04/2006 Spitzer-Paterson Commit to Package of Good Government Practices
12/04/2006 Medicaid Clients Willing to Sue Vs NYSDOH Medicaid Income Limit for Couples are Sought
12/04/2006 Metroland: Albany's Rush to Speed Civil Confinement Legislation Through
12/04/2006 AP: New Programs Help Mentally Ill Ex-Cons
12/04/2006 SRN: Mental Health Laws Pose Growing Threat, Parents Say
12/04/2006 AJPH: National Health Surveys Examining Disparities
12/04/2006 J News: Putnam County Mental Health Services Under Spotlight
12/04/2006 News Journal: Waiting Lists Haunt Texas' Mentally Ill, Disabled
12/04/2006 Feds on Recovery Components
12/04/2006 USA Today: Ads Target Stigma of Mental Illness Among Youth
12/04/2006 Sentinel: Maine Clubhouse Offers Hope for Members

November

11/30/2006 Journal: Mental Health Housing Reform Must be Spitzer Priority
11/30/2006 Smith: Bush Would Sign Federal Mental Health Parity Law
11/30/2006 NYT, GNS: Pataki and Spitzer Back Downsizing of Hospitals
11/29/2006 Overhauling New Yorks Health Care: Forces Align, for Now
11/29/2006 Money Follows Person
11/29/2006 Medicare Part D
11/29/2006 Okla. leaders praise SAMHSA nominee for innovation, recovery vision
11/29/2006 How Does the Medicaid Buy-In Program Relate to Other Federal Efforts
11/28/2006 NYS Panel Recommends 57 Hospitals Consolidations, Closings
11/28/2006 Florida Judge Fines Human Services Chief for Jail Mental Health Fiasco
11/28/2006 Together RX Access Helps Uninsured Gets Discounts on Meds
11/28/2006 Reuters: 9 Out of 10 E-mails Now Spam
11/28/2006 USA Today: 'Too Soon' To Celebrate Decline In Medicaid Spending
11/28/2006 AP: CT Establishes Parole Unit for Mentally Ill Offenders
11/28/2006 Spitzer vs Rivera and Raske
11/25/2006 State's Top Court Backs CQCAPD's Power to Investigate Adult Home Operator's Finances
11/25/2006 W Post: As Premiums Rise, Social Security's Staffing Level to Be Tested
11/25/2006 Study: Women Are Diagnosed With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
11/24/2006 Courier-Journal: Mental Illness Stalks Elderly
11/24/2006 MA mental health crisis warded off
11/24/2006 Families USA Predict 07 Congress Will Backburner Medicaid Cutbacks
11/24/2006 Mother Calls on Congress to Approve Parity Bill
11/24/2006 Sun: 07 NYS Budget Picture Brightening for Gov-elect Spitzer
11/24/2006 MHASC Monday Call In
11/24/2006 News: Detroit Jail Diversion Program Deemed Success
11/24/2006 Sun Finds Spitzer's Education Advisers Old Hat
11/23/2006 NYT: Panel Calls for Big Changes in Medicaid
11/23/2006 AP: NY Lawmakers Face Major Disagreement on Civil Commitment Bill
11/23/2006 Psychiatrist Disputes Claim that UK Blacks at Greater Risk for Schizophrenia
11/23/2006 Social Environmental Trigger for Schizophrenia?, Dispute Minority Findings
11/23/2006 LA Times: Better Mental Health Services Ordered for Foster Children
11/23/2006 NYT: A Growing Plea for Mercy for the Mentally Ill on Death Row
11/22/2006 Upcoming Civil Commitment Deliberation Might Get Pushed to Spitzer Administration?
11/22/2006 AP, J News: NYS Budget Pressure Tightens w/ Rising Debt, Education Spending Commitments
11/22/2006 NYS Senate Leader Bruno Issues 2007 Priorities
11/22/2006 TU: OCFS Facilities Still Use Restraint on Youths Banned by OMH, DOCS
11/21/2006 AP, GNS: Panel Urges Reinvestment of Savings from Medicaid Downsizing, MH Issues Left Out
11/21/2006 NYT, Daily News: Court Ruling Could Reduce Additional School Spending Required in 07 NYS Budget
11/21/2006 Kaiser: Democrats Will Oppose Greater State Medicaid Flexibility, Will Seek Lower Medicare Drug Costs
11/21/2006 Globe: Cash Strapped Massachusetts Halts State Hospital Admissions
11/21/2006 IL Bazelon Win
11/21/2006 W Post: Vets Deserve Better Mental Health Care
11/21/2006 Pataki Calls for Special Legislative Session After Court Rules Against Sex Offender Commitment Policy
11/20/2006 Shining the light on the ugly treatment of mentally ill inmates
11/20/2006 Debate on Whether Depression or Depression Meds Increase Heart Health Risk
11/20/2006 Profits Grow For Medicaid HMOs As Physicians, Patients Criticize Coverage Restrictions
11/20/2006 Housing Wait List in Texas
11/20/2006 W Times: New Senate Health Chair Kennedy Seeks Expanded Coverage, MH Parity
11/20/2006 TU: Schimke Urges Government to
11/20/2006 Laying out an agenda for Eliot Spitzer
11/20/2006 Oregonian: Civil Commitment, Criminalization No Substitute for Community Services
11/17/2006 Star Gazette Calls on Assembly to Pass Timothy's Law
11/17/2006 Spitzer Health, Human Services Transition Teams; Commissioner Selections Expected Mid-December
11/17/2006 Sex, Intimacy Important Overlooked Concerns by MH Professionals
11/17/2006 NYC Health Commissioner: We Have Too Many Hospital Beds
11/17/2006 New mental health laws 'not fit for 21st century'
11/17/2006 State mental health commission meets in Eureka
11/17/2006 Spano
11/16/2006 CPR Updates Recovery Internet Courses, Downloads on Co-Occurring Disorders
11/16/2006 Sun: New York's Medicaid Growth Rate Slows to 3.8%
11/16/2006 Audit: NYS Paid Millions for Care to Thousands of Dead Patients
11/16/2006 13 Policy Committee, Co-Chairs Named to Advise Spitzer Transition Team
11/15/2006 Davidson et al: Top 10 Concerns Around Recovery in MH System Transformation
11/15/2006 Sun: Ontario Calculates $34 Billion Cost from Psych, Substance Abuse Disorders
11/15/2006 Press:
11/15/2006 Taipei Times: Alternative Treatments Can Help
11/14/2006 Spitzer Talks Compromise w/ Leaders, Campaign Finance Reform w/ Advocates
11/14/2006 NYT: Health Insurance Industry Calls for Medicaid, CHIP Expansion
11/14/2006 Star: Bipolar Disorders No Longer Hidden Conditions
11/14/2006 Nov 18 American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Webcast/Teleconference
11/14/2006 State ordered to improve treatment of mentally ill
11/14/2006 New House Leader Pelosi Backs Medicaid, SCHIP Expansion Proposals
11/13/2006 GNS: Analyzing the NYS Legislature in the Wake of Last Week's Elections
11/13/2006 NYT Profiles New First Lady Silda Wall Spitzer
11/13/2006 MI and Media
11/13/2006 Tribune: Stigma Deters Latinos Fom Seeking MH Care
11/13/2006 IA Prison Pop
11/12/2006 HDR: Childhood Trauma Ups Risk of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
11/12/2006 NYS Media Anticipate NYS Governor-Elect Spitzer's Administration
11/12/2006 Eliot in PR
11/12/2006 Daily News Sheds Light on
11/10/2006 Oklahoma Health Secretary Terry Cline Named New SAMHSA Head
11/10/2006 Letters
11/10/2006 NYT: Silda Wall Spitzer as New First Lady of New York
11/10/2006 Spitzer Woos Out of State Staff, To Meet w/ Legislative Leaders
11/09/2006 GNS: Spitzer Starts Out Bringing Labor, Business Leaders Together
11/09/2006 NYT: NY Congressional Delegation to Play Prominent Leadership Roles Ahead
11/09/2006 Spitzer 2006 Release: New Transition Team Named
11/09/2006 Spitzer Launches 'Transition: New York' Website
11/09/2006 Insurer Sued for Refusing to Pay Costs of Anorexia
11/08/2006 May '07 NYS Case Management Coalition Conference Call for Presentations
11/07/2006 GNS: Key Race Results May Give Insight to Voters' Mood
11/07/2006 UK Launches Mental Health Treatment 'Choices' Website
11/07/2006 TH-R: Hazelden Building Northeast Youth Treatment Center in Catskills
11/07/2006 Alert: NYSOMH Releases New PROS Regs, Resumes Implementation
11/06/2006 GNS Excerpts: Spitzer, Faso Have Their Say on Election Eve
11/06/2006 AAPD List Bi-Lingual Voter Assistance/Info Phone Numbers
11/04/2006 LAT: MH Professionals, Religious Leaders Adopting More Holistic Healing Approaches
11/04/2006 P. News: ER Physicians Often Misdiagnose Psychosis
11/03/2006 OMH Launces New, Creative Employment Initiative
11/03/2006 SAMHSA Report: Cost/Coverage Limits Primary Barrier to MH Treatment
11/03/2006 Nat Disability Rights Network: You Can Have Someone Help You Vote
11/03/2006 Improved Safety For Mental Health Inpatients, UK
11/03/2006 Schumer calls for more funding for mental health services program
11/03/2006 Acquila
11/03/2006 Deegan, Drake: Shared Decision Making & Med Management in the Recovery Process
11/03/2006 MHW: Agencies, Advocates Brace to Help Clients with Part D Shifts
11/03/2006 Capital girds for power handoff
11/03/2006 SAMHSA Online Brochure: Mental Health: It's Part of Aging
11/02/2006 Dec 7 NYS Assembly Hearing on Women, Suicide & Prevention Initiatives
11/02/2006 Nov 30
11/02/2006 Capital Region Hosts Nov Nat Survivors of Suicide Day Webcast Conference
11/02/2006 Submissions Sought for SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
11/01/2006 AP: Another University Settles Suit re Student w/ Psych Disability
11/01/2006 Ex-HHS Chief: States Will Wind Up Taking Lead on Healthcare Reform
11/01/2006 USPRA Offers 'Psych Rehab Skills in Practice' CPRP Workbook
11/01/2006 Schizophrenia Population in U.S. Reached 1.5 Million in 2002

October

10/31/2006 P&S-B: Funding Shortages, Insurance Limitations Hamper So Tier MH Care
10/31/2006 Good Relationships Key to Good Mental Health
10/31/2006 P&S-B: Funding Shortages, Insurance Restrictions Jeopardize So Tier MH Care
10/31/2006 Globe: Maligned Medicaid, SSI Have Been Very Successful In Fostering Recovery, Independence
10/31/2006 Republican: Seniors w/ Psych Disabilities Need More Help
10/31/2006 Study: Race-based Discrimination Contributes To African-American Health Disparities
10/31/2006 Regional facilities needed for mentally ill, panel told
10/31/2006 Mental Health Education Program To Be Implemented In School Communities Nationwide
10/31/2006 SAMHSA Launches New National Center for Trauma Informed Care
10/31/2006 Newsday: NYS' Mounting Debt Will Hamper Next Governor's Budget Plans
10/31/2006 Sweep finds most offenders in compliance
10/31/2006 Online Brochure: Mental Health: It's Part of Our Lives at Work
10/30/2006 Consider an Empowerment-Oriented Mental Health System
10/30/2006 Spitzer Team
10/30/2006 The way we treat schizophrenia is utter madness
10/29/2006 Relatives Trying to Help Mentally Ill Face a Gauntlet of Privacy Laws
10/29/2006 PTSD
10/29/2006 Style: VA Hospital Patients Sue Alleging Denial of Absentee Voting Rights
10/28/2006 Bipartisan Legislation Introduced to Restore ADA Protections
10/28/2006 Nov 8: Soho Artists to Feature Work to Benefit UJC Mental Health Project
10/28/2006 Barriers To Prevention And Treatment Are Leading Contributors To Mental Health Crisis
10/28/2006 Recovery and Disaster
10/28/2006 Ga., Md. telepsychiatry initiatives finding success
10/28/2006 Newhouse: Red Cross Turns Focus to Mental Health Care
10/28/2006 W Times: Federal Medicaid Investigators to Look into Transportation
10/27/2006 Spitzer Responses to Forum ? on Disability Housing, Employment, Transportation Concerns
10/27/2006 DOH: Medicare Part D Wrap-around Benefit Changes Starting January 1
10/27/2006 MNT, Reuters: Vets Face Mental Health Wait Lists, PTSD Emerging Later
10/27/2006 CMHS: Using the Arts to Counter Stigma, Discrimination Nov 14 TC
10/27/2006 'Countdown to November 15: Part D Current Topics' Call Rescheduled Today at 1pm
10/27/2006 MHW: Maine Consumer Councils to Play Major Role in Court Settlement Plan
10/26/2006 MHW: States Build Competence to Serve People with Co-occurring Illness
10/26/2006 MHW: Innovative Mass.-based Program Aids Parents with MH Issues
10/26/2006 ALERT: CMS to Host Medicare Part D TC Oct TODAY at 1
10/26/2006 Medicare D Update Summary
10/26/2006 A MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP ORIENTATION
10/26/2006 Inspector estimates $230 million wrongly paid in six months
10/25/2006 W Post: Medicare Drug Aid No Longer Automoatic For Seniors, 'Duals'
10/25/2006 MHW: NJ Faith-based Initiative Aims to Educate African-American Religious Leaders
10/24/2006 Ohio Parity Measure
10/24/2006 Hunger Action Network Compares Faso, Spitzer Healthcare Positions
10/24/2006 AP: NJ Program Serve Ex Cons with Psychiatric Disabilities
10/24/2006 Oct 27 Rochester MH and Wellness for Girls and Women Conf
10/24/2006 Iowa Reports Slam State MH Service Practices
10/24/2006 Daily News AH Scandal
10/24/2006 VA Secretary Says Veterans Mental Health Needs Being Met
10/24/2006 Roy on Housing
10/24/2006 NYT on Troubled Kids
10/24/2006 Sostchen Appointed to Lead Prominent NYC Peer Agency
10/24/2006 P News: US Prison Mental Health Crisis Continues to Grow
10/24/2006 NAMI Halloween
10/24/2006 USPRA: CMS Regulation Changes for Medicaid Rehabilitation Stalled
10/19/2006 AP: Medicare to Cease Automatic Enrollment for 'Dual Eligibles'
10/19/2006 Judge Strikes Down Albuquerque's Kendra's Law
10/19/2006 Alert: Tell Gov Pataki You Expect Him to Approve Timothy's Law
10/19/2006 Oct. 25 Bronx PC Trauma Healing Conference Features Ann Jennings Presentation
10/16/2006 Spitzer in Huddle With Silver Over Change in Albany
10/16/2006 Hindu socio cultural factors
10/16/2006 More Sex Less Paranoi
10/15/2006 Mental health system due for radical reform
10/15/2006 Gold: HUD, Housing and Money Follows the Person Initiative
10/15/2006 Massive Hikes On Medicare's Cheapest Drug Plans Plus More Confusion
10/15/2006 Inter Lake: Montana Boosts Joint Mental Health/Substance Abuse Services
10/15/2006 CBR: Larger Cuts Due in Congress
10/15/2006 BU Offers Fall 2006 AudioConference Educational Series on Psychiatric Rehabilitation
10/15/2006 MHW: States Planning Medicaid Changes in Wake of Improved Financial Picture
10/15/2006 Morning Star: Texas Program Helps Seniors with Mental Health Issues
10/15/2006 Reuters: Public Has Preconceived Ideas on Psychiatric Therapy
10/15/2006 Junk medicine: schizophrenia, label worth keeping
10/15/2006 AP: Judge Threatens Florida Agency for Failing to Treat Jail Inmates w/ Psych. Disabilities
10/15/2006 Free Press: NC Looking at Alternate MH Housing Model for Adult Home Residents
10/13/2006 Press: Video Shows Mentally Ill Prisoner's Slow Death
10/13/2006 Depression treatments may shift
10/13/2006 SUNY Albany Forum to Focus on MH Disaster Services
10/13/2006 Survey: Medicaid Spending Growth Reaches Near-Record Low, NY Spends Most
10/13/2006 OMH Commissioner Carpinello Speaks on Suicide Prevention at UN
10/12/2006 TU: State Violated Civilly Committed Sex Offenders' Rights, Lawyer Tells Court
10/12/2006 Job: Long Island Peer Specialist State Post Available
10/12/2006 Study: Higher Mortality Rates Require More Integrated Mental Health/Health Services
10/11/2006 Recovery from BPD
10/11/2006 When We Were Kids
10/11/2006 Virginia Supreme Court MH Commission
10/11/2006 WHO Seeks to Address 873,000 Yearly World Suicide Trend
10/11/2006 SUNYA
10/11/2006 Judge Sees Conflicts in Kendra's Law
10/11/2006 PILGRIM PSYCHIATRIC CENTER
10/11/2006 Assembly Calls on Senate to End Sex Crime Posturing and Settle Differences in Open Forums
10/10/2006 MNT: Emotionally Ambivalent Workers Are More Creative, Innovative
10/10/2006 Hospital News: Early Intervention Program Effective for Teens, Young Adults
10/10/2006 NYAPRS: Video of Tom O'Clair's Moving Remarks on Passage of Timothy's Law Available on Youtube
10/10/2006 AP: Mental Health 'Teletreatment' Use Growing, Esp in Rural Areas
10/09/2006 L Gazette: MH Housing Advocates Appeal to Gov Candidates
10/09/2006 Medicaid/Health Care Costs Highlight NYS Gov, Att'y Gen'l Races
10/09/2006 MNT: Advocates Urge CMS to Improve Medicare Drug Appeals Process
10/09/2006 Reuters: Experts Urge Dropping of Schizophrenia 'Concept', 'Label'
10/09/2006 Post: Court to Rule on Pataki Sex Offender Civil Commitment Policy, 118 Confined to Date
10/09/2006 MHW: NYS MH Parity Advocates Look to Gov Pataki's Action
10/06/2006 Kendra's Law is a Dud
10/06/2006 USPRA Nov 8 Web Training: Role of Spirituality in Wellness Management
10/06/2006 Pataki
10/06/2006 IBHI
10/06/2006 VA Post
10/05/2006 Homeless MI
10/05/2006 MHANYS 'Empowering Parents w/ Psych. Disabilities' Oct 17 Albany Conference
10/05/2006 Advocates Urge NYS Gov Candidates to Back MH Housing Expansion Proposal, Wait List Bill
10/05/2006 Black Tea
10/05/2006 JFA: Time is Running Out to Register to Vote 'As If Your Life Depends Upon It'
10/05/2006 NYAPRS Seeks Assistant Director for Recovery & Rehab Training Collective
10/05/2006 Role of Spirituality in Wellness Management
10/04/2006 TU, AP: Feds Back NY Medicaid Containtment Plan to Close Hospitals, Hike Managed Care, Anti-Fraud Efforts
10/04/2006 W Post, NAMI: Study Challenging Superiority of New Antipsychotic Drugs Renews Controversy
10/04/2006 Psychiatrists Decry SHU Bill Veto, Prison MH Treatment in US
10/04/2006 NYT: Judge Upholds Obligation for MH Discharge Planning for NYC Hospitals
10/04/2006 MNT: Study Finds Some Medicare D Plans Did Not Cover Required MH Drugs
10/03/2006 P Journal: MH Issues Highlighted in Race for Rhode Island's Governor
10/03/2006 Study: Nearly Half Of Eating Disorder Patients Self-Harm
10/03/2006 A Tribune: ACLU Takes New Albuquerque 'Kendra's Law' to Court
10/03/2006 Will Iowa's Governor's Pride in MH Parity Law Influence Gov Pataki?
10/03/2006 OMH Releases Presentation on NY Sex Offender Civil Commitment Program

September

09/29/2006 GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Faso Backs Commision on Behavioral Health Transformation
09/29/2006 FEGS SASS
09/29/2006 Oct 19 NYC Presentation by Pat Deegan: 'Recovery: Values to Practice
09/29/2006 Judge Bars CMS From Collecting on Incorrect Medicare Part D Payments
09/29/2006 OMH Posts Regs to Implement Continuing Day Treatment Utilization Threshold
09/29/2006 Report; VA Shortchanging Mental Health Programs
09/28/2006 MHEP Nov 3 NYC Conference: Building Bridges to the Community
09/28/2006 US Senate Resolution Urges Congress to Make MH Parity a Priority
09/28/2006 NYAPRS, NAMI Co-Sponsor Syracuse Oct 7 Wellness Walk
09/28/2006 Ithaca Journal Urges Pataki to Sign Timothy's Law
09/28/2006 NYAPRS Annual Report Reviews Advances in Promoting Recovery, Rehab & Rights
09/26/2006 Northender: Nassau County to Launch Mental Health Public Education Campaign, Conference
09/26/2006 Cohen: APHA Standards for MH Services in Correctional Institutions
09/26/2006 MNT: Race And Mental Health: There Is More To Race Than Racism
09/25/2006 NYT: Former NYS Top Judge Decries Pataki SHU Bill Veto in Personal Terms
09/25/2006 P&SB: Writer Urges Citizens to Send Pataki a Picture of Timothy O'Clair
09/25/2006 Violence and Mental Illness: The Facts
09/25/2006 Report: Girls Abused, Get Inadequate MH Treatment in NY Juvenile Prisons
09/22/2006 S&S: Officer Sees Perfect Storm Ahead in Miltary's MH Care System
09/22/2006 Pataki Budget Cuts? Faso Seeks Tax/Pork Cuts, Term Limits Proposed by Gov Rivals
09/22/2006 Black on Social Emotional Learning: 'The Power of Caring'
09/22/2006 UPI: National Groups Push for Mental Health Parity
09/21/2006 NYAPRS 2007 Draft State Advocacy Priorities, Legislative Day, Conference Forum
09/21/2006 NYAPRS 2007 Draft State Advocacy Priorities, Legislative Day, Conference Forum
09/21/2006 Kaiser: 2005 CMS Medicaid Spendidng Data Available
09/20/2006 USPRA/Bazelon Staff Review Advocacy Efforts on CMS Medicaid Policies at Thurs eve NYAPRS Conference Program
09/20/2006 J News: Senate's Timothy's Law Represents a Big Step
09/20/2006 MNT: Disability Advocates Alliance w Bush Officials Yields $ Follows the Person Deal
09/20/2006 O-D: OMH's Carpinello's to Address Utica Area re Sex Offender Program
09/19/2006 AP, Daily News: AG Candidate Pirro Highlights Civil Commitment Legislation
09/19/2006 Mental health bill passes amid protests
09/18/2006 AP, GNS, NYT: Senate Unanimously Approves Timothy's Law
09/18/2006 Age, Herald: Report Shows Australia Prisons a Limbo for Prisoners w Psych Disabilities
09/18/2006 CMS: NYS 1 of 10 to Get 2006 Real Choice Systems Change Grants
09/18/2006 NYS Senate Passes Timothy's Law to Provide Mental Health Parity
09/18/2006 National Resource Center Now Available for Psychiatric Advance Directives
09/18/2006 MNT: New Study Examines Impact of Medicaid, Medicare Changes
09/18/2006 MNT: Patients Not Receiving Effective Treatments For Panic Disorder
09/15/2006 Criminal Justice/Mental Health Systems Strategies Featured at NYAPRS Conference
09/15/2006 Sun, MNT: Mental Health Crisis Among Aging Cited by Expert Panel
09/15/2006 APA: Data Lacking On Psychiatric Drugs For Children And Adolescents
09/15/2006 Study: Use of Body's Natural Stress Hormone May ReduceTraumatic Reactions
09/15/2006 CPR: Seminal Harding Research on Recovery Now Available as Free Downloads
09/14/2006 D&C Decries Pataki Veto of SHU Bill on Attica Tragedy Anniversary
09/14/2006 TU: NYS Should Approve Timothy's Law Parity Measure Now
09/14/2006 CMS: Average Medicare Drug Premium to Remain Same or Decline
09/14/2006 NYAPRS Annual Conference: 12 Interstate Panels on Top MH Issues
09/14/2006 Forensic Issues at Conference
09/14/2006 Pataki Approves Children's Mental Health of 2006
09/12/2006 Collective to Offer Follow Up TA for Psych Rehab Intensive Participants
09/11/2006 Study finds weaknesses in child mental health care
09/11/2006 NYAPRS Medicaid Rehab Seminar Adds 2nd Former CMS Consultant
09/11/2006 CMHS' Power on Creating a Trauma-Informed System of Care
09/11/2006 TU: MH Parity Law Expected to be Approved by Senate Friday
09/11/2006 NYT: Battle Lines in Treating Depression
09/11/2006 Psychiatric Services Features 15 Articles On New Yorks Project Liberty
09/08/2006 MNT: Experts Speculate On CMS Administrator McClellan's Departure
09/08/2006 Spitzer, Faso
09/08/2006 US Dept' of Ed. Offers Rehab Services Grants
09/07/2006 DOJ Survey: More Than 1/2 Nation's Inmates Report MH Problems
09/07/2006 Corliss Letter
09/07/2006 NAMI NYC Hosts Programs on Private Pay Residences, Acupuncture and Yoga
09/05/2006 NYAPRS Recognizes 2006 Award Winners for Extraordinary Contributions to MH Community
09/04/2006 Medicare Advocates Worry Low-Income Subsidy Could Vanish
09/04/2006 CPR Offers New Seminar on Research Issues for Consumers
09/04/2006 Nat Coalition of MH Consumer/Survivor Organizations Formed
09/04/2006 Study: Bipolar Disorder Exacts Twice Depression's Toll in Workplace
09/04/2006 National Jail MH Crisis? Recent Coverage in VT, FLA, MN, MO
09/04/2006 Missouri Gets MH Transformation Grant
09/04/2006 AP: College That Barred Student w/ Suicide Hx Settles Lawsuit

August

08/31/2006 Study: British Press Promotes
08/31/2006 MHW: NY Advocates Decry Pataki Vetoes of MH Bills
08/31/2006 Citizen: Pataki Veto of Prison MH Bill A Big Mistake
08/31/2006 GNS: NYS Legislature Poised to Pass Timothy's Law Parity Bill
08/29/2006 Rivera Provides Update on Significant '06 Mental Health Legislation
08/28/2006 Lipton: Emergency Responders' Mgt of Pts Who May Have
08/28/2006 Citizen: Ottawa Peer Hospital-to-Community Program Stresses Wellness
08/28/2006 UN Approves New Convention on Rights of Persons w/ Disabilities
08/23/2006 NewStandard: Campaigners Fight to Keep Mentally Ill out of Solitary Confinement
08/23/2006 RX for mental health offered in Missouri
08/22/2006 USA Today: Workplaces Quit Quietly Ignoring Mental Illness
08/22/2006 Bazelon: New Administrative Medicaid Rules Anticipated
08/22/2006 Newday, SI Advance Decry Pataki SHU Bill Veto
08/22/2006 Spitzer Speech Faso Pending
08/21/2006 W Post, Tenneseean: Are War Vets Getting Appropriate Trauma Services?
08/21/2006 Free Press:Mentally ill inmate dies in isolation
08/21/2006 NYAPRS Releases September Conference Workshop Schedule
08/20/2006 TU Editorial on SHU Veto:
08/20/2006 Trauma Services ?ed
08/20/2006 S-T: Better Training Could Have Prevented Jail Death
08/18/2006 It's Timothy's Time
08/18/2006 Press Decries Pataki 'SHU Bill' Veto: On Towards An Override
08/18/2006 NYC Collaborative Recovery Pilot Project Seeks Part-Time Recovery Consultants
08/18/2006 NYC Collaborative Recovery Pilot Project Seeks Part-Time Recovery Consultants
08/18/2006 Assemblyman Rivera Keynoting at Hispanic Heritage Event
08/17/2006 NYC Collaborative Recovery Pilot Project Seeks Part-Time Recovery Consultants
08/17/2006 Alert: Pataki Vetoes SHU, Wait List, Multicultural Centers, Restraints Bills
08/17/2006 Pataki Vetoes SHU, Housing Wait List, Multicultural, Restraint Bills
08/17/2006 Governor Pataki Vetoes
08/17/2006 Governor Pataki Vetoes
08/16/2006 On D-Day, Rochester D&C, El Diario Join Call to Pataki to Approve SHU Bill
08/16/2006 OMH Releases RFP for Child & Family Clinic Plus Program in NYC
08/16/2006 JOBS: NYAPRS Training Collective Seeks NYC/LI Regional Recovery Educator
08/16/2006 JOBS: NYAPRS Training Collective Seeks NYC/LI Regional Recovery Educator
08/16/2006 NYAPRS Releases September Conference Workshop Schedule
08/15/2006 NPT: Bush Set To Sign Charitable Reform Legislation
08/15/2006 Buffalo News 10th Paper to Urge Pataki to Approve 'SHU' Bill
08/15/2006 Times: Planned Federal Medicaid Cuts Cause Rift With States
08/15/2006 MHW: News SAMHSA Acting Administator Details Priorities
08/14/2006 Times: Western values 'Are Causing Mental Illness'
08/14/2006 9 Editorials, 2 Houses, Thousands of Advocates Urge Gov Pataki to Approve 'SHU' Bill
08/13/2006 National Suicide Hotline to Operate Two Additional Weeks
08/11/2006 P Journal: SHU Bill Would Provide Proper Care for Mentailly Ill Inmates
08/10/2006 Youth Call to
08/10/2006 NYAPRS ENews Technical Issues
08/10/2006 7/24/06 call in for 7/25 DRAFT
08/10/2006 7/25 MHASC Draft
08/10/2006 7/26 AP, GNS, NYPR Draft
08/10/2006 7/26 CHN: Senate Draft
08/10/2006 7/27 AP: Spitzer ADA Draft
08/10/2006 7/28 National Alliance Draft
08/10/2006 7/31 Daily Post Draft
08/10/2006 7/31 Free Webcast Draft
08/10/2006 7/31 HHS Provides Draft
08/10/2006 7/31 MNT: Study Draft
08/10/2006 8/1 Syracuse Post Draft
08/10/2006 8/1 Bee, News Draft
08/10/2006 8/1 Monitor: NH Draft
08/10/2006 8/1 MNT: House Draft
08/10/2006 8/2 Report: 1 OF 11 Draft
08/10/2006 8/1 Holistic Approach Draft
08/10/2006 8/2 MNT: CMS Draft
08/10/2006 8/2 OMH's Carpinello Draft
08/10/2006 8/3 Journal Draft
08/10/2006 8/7 Star Gazette Draft
08/10/2006 8/7 Alert Join In Draft
08/10/2006 8/7 Former HHS Draft
08/10/2006 8/8 Blade: Draft
08/10/2006 8/8 Press Repub: Draft
08/10/2006 8/8 W Post Draft
08/10/2006 8/8 Amnesty Draft
08/10/2006 8/8 Jobs Draft
08/10/2006 8/8 Pough Journal Draft
08/10/2006 Advocates Urge Gov Pataki to Approve OMH Housing Wait List
08/10/2006 8/9 SAMHSA Draft
08/09/2006 SAMHSA Announces Elimination of Barriers Initiative
08/09/2006 Law would help pay insurance
08/09/2006 SAMHSA: 'Decreasing Stigma, Discrimination in African American Community'
08/09/2006 SAMHSA to Partner with Suicide Prevention Action Network
08/09/2006 Gov. Pataki Urged to Sign MH Housing Wait List Bill
08/09/2006 ALERT: Join in Statewide SHU Call in Week to Urge Gov to Sign Bill!
08/09/2006 Pittsburgh Prison Injury
08/09/2006 Beckman Wants Local $
08/09/2006 URGENT: SHU CALL IN THIS WEEK to Urge Governor to Sign Bill
08/09/2006 URGENT:
08/09/2006 URGENT: SHU CALL IN THIS WEEK to Urge Governor to Sign Bill
08/08/2006 Press Republican: Pataki Must Sign 'SHU' Bill
08/08/2006 NYT: New Depression Findings Could Alter Treatments
08/08/2006 Blade: Georgia Highlights MH Advance Directives
08/08/2006 Amnesty Int Calls on USA to Stop Execution of 'Mentally Ill Offenders'
08/08/2006 W Post: Administration Aims to Set Health-Care Standards
08/08/2006 Jobs: NYC Recovery Project Coordinator, LI Outreach Counselor
08/08/2006 Poughkeepsie Journal to Governor: Stop Isolating the Mentally Ill
08/07/2006 Star Gazette Urges Pataki to Sign SHU Bill, Highlights NYSCOPBA Support
08/07/2006 ALERT: Join in Statewide SHU Call in Week to Urge Gov to Sign Bill!
08/07/2006 Oregon Jail MH Reform in Works
08/07/2006 Former HHS Chief Calls for 'Medicaid Makeover'
08/03/2006 OMH's Carpinello: Work on New Rockland Children's PC Building to Begin
08/03/2006 Journal News Urges Pataki to Sign 'SHU', Housing Wait List Bills
08/02/2006 Morning News: Utah St Hospital Stresses Holistic Approach
08/02/2006 Report: 1 of 11 Oregon Jail Prisoners Have Mental Illnesses
08/02/2006 MNT: CMS Announces New Policies For Medicaid Long-Term Care For Dual Eligibles
08/01/2006 Syracuse Post-Standard to Gov Pataki: Sign the SHU Bill!
08/01/2006 Bee, News: Judge Orders California to Expand MH Care in Prisons
08/01/2006 Monitor: NH to Tell Judge re Plans for MH Alternatives to the Box
08/01/2006 MNT; House Democrats Warn Proposed Medicaid Reg Changes = Severe Cuts

July

07/31/2006 HHS Provides Funding to States for Alternatives to Nursing Home Care in Medicaid
07/31/2006 Daily Post: Prisons See More Inmates Requiring Mental Health Care
07/31/2006 MNT: Study Looks at Meditation Impact on Early Cognitive Impairment
07/31/2006 Free Aug. 22 Webcast: Medicaid and Persons with Disabilities
07/28/2006 National Alliance of Peer Specialists Formed
07/27/2006 AP: Spitzer ADA Event Highlights State Advocate, MISCC, Medicaid
07/26/2006 CHN: Senate Committee's Inadequate Labor-HHS-Education Spending
07/26/2006 AP, GNS, NYPR: Bill to Ban Solitary for Mentally Ill Inmates Going to Pataki
07/25/2006 MHASC: Aggrieved Mothers, Religious Leaders Urge Gov Pataki to Sign 'SHU' Bill
07/24/2006 MHASC: Call Gov Pataki Tomorrow to Sign 'SHU' Bill!
07/24/2006 Telegraph: Prisons, Jails Raise Red Flag for State MH Officials
07/23/2006 MNT: Center For Medicare Advocacy Releases Medicare Part D Progress Report
07/21/2006 Alert! Urge Gov Pataki to Veto Bill Expanding Seclusion & Restraint
07/21/2006 Alert! Urge Gov Pataki to Veto Bill Expanding Seclusion & Restraint
07/20/2006 Job: MHA in Jefferson County Seeks Executive Director
07/20/2006 Bazelon: New Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives
07/20/2006 CMHS Announces Free Child Trauma Teleconferences
07/20/2006 NAMI, Bogart: Heat Alert, Medicaid May Pay for Air Conditioners
07/20/2006 ALERT: Send Completed Petitions for SHU Bill Approval to Advocates Today!
07/19/2006 Post-Gazette: Peer Warm Line Connects Those in Need
07/18/2006 SAMHSA Reports Focus on Quality of Residential Care
07/18/2006 NYT: Pharmaceutical Industry Reaping Windfall from Shift to Part D
07/18/2006 CQ: Senate Moving on HHS Budget, House Might Do Omnibus
07/18/2006 BBC, Report: Horticulture Therapy Taking Off
07/18/2006 O-D: 39 Sex Offenders Housed at CNY Psychiatric Facility
07/18/2006 Remember: Tomorrow's USPRA 'Mutual Support, Self Help' Audio Training w/ Knight, Davis
07/17/2006 MHW: NY Official Move Forward w/ Recovery-oriented Services Initiative
07/17/2006 NY Times: Gov Pataki Should Sign 'SHU' Bill
07/17/2006 J.News Calls for NYS Comprehensive Interagency Adult Home Reforms
07/17/2006 MHW: NY Advocates Buoyed by Legislative Wins, Concerned about Parity
07/17/2006 Times Session Summary
07/17/2006 NCD Seeks Sweeping Changes for PWPDs in Emergency Evacuations
07/14/2006 Alert: Join Petition Drive Urging Gov Pataki to Sign 'SHU' Bill!
07/14/2006 NYT: Day Programming, Ambulette Oversight Questions Emerge
07/14/2006 CMS: Medicaid Spending Down, As Medicare Rises
07/14/2006 Alert: Urge Gov Pataki to Sign OMH Housing Wait List Bill!
07/13/2006 NYT: Horrible Accident Kills Brooklyn Manor Residents
07/13/2006 Study: Many Suicidal Adults Aren't Getting Mental Health Treatment
07/13/2006 NYS Hospital Rightsizing Initiative Draws OMH's Carpinello, New BH Taskforce
07/13/2006 Times, Daily News: Tales of Lives That Van Crash Cut Short
07/12/2006 MNT: Exemptions To New Medicaid Proof-of-Citizenship Rules Still Inadequate, Advocates Say
07/12/2006 BH: Debate Over Forced Treatment Continues in NM and Beyond
07/12/2006 Psych. News: Cultural Beliefs Can Be Harnessed To Aid Outcome
07/12/2006 SAMHSA: Employment Help for People with Mental Illness
07/11/2006 Newsday Calls on Governor Pataki to Sign 'SHU' Bill
07/11/2006 Duke/PRA to Conduct Independent Kendra's Law Study
07/11/2006 Daily Mirror: Alaska Supreme Court Rules on Forced Medication Issue
07/11/2006 CMS: 8M Beneficiaries Will Be Exempt From New Medicaid Proof-of-Citizenship Rules
07/11/2006 GAO: Call Centers Not Adequately Answering Part D Questions
07/11/2006 NYAPRS Conference Announcement - Updated
07/10/2006 *NYAPRS RELEASES 2006 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT*
07/09/2006 Courier Post: NJ County Launches MH Training Program for Correctional Officers
07/09/2006 NYS DOH Letter Extending Medicaid Wraparound for Part D Enrollees Till January
07/09/2006 Group Rallies Outside NYS Capitol Decrying Shock, Drug Treatments for Children
07/08/2006 New SAMHSA National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
07/07/2006 OMH Resumes PROS Implementation, Announces PROS Rate Hikes
07/07/2006 J. News: Putnam MH Advocates Seek Improved Services
07/07/2006 OMH Resumes PROS Implementation in Early Adopter Counties
07/04/2006 UPI: Deficit Reduction Act Presents Challenge, Chance for MH Services
07/04/2006 Register Today for NYAPRS Regional Conference, Special Seminars; Details Released
07/03/2006 MNT: Details on CMS' Regulation over Medicare Part D Plans
07/03/2006 CQ: Senators Warn Administration Against Cutting Medicaid Payments on its Own

June

06/30/2006 Supreme Court: Mental Illness Doesn't In Itself Prevent Criminal Intent
06/30/2006 Study: Bipolar Disorder in Children and Teens is Different from Adults
06/30/2006 TU Editorial: End the Torture, Sign the SHU Bill, Governor!
06/29/2006 W Post: Attitude Towards Politicians w/ Mental Illnesses Is Changing
06/29/2006 W. Times: HHS Tightens Welfare Work Rules
06/29/2006 CQ: Advocates Sue to Block Medicaid Citizenship Documentation Rule
06/28/2006 TU: Nozzolio 'Hopeful' Governor Will Sign SHU Bill Into Law
06/28/2006 NGO: Proposed Federal Medicaid Changes Would Hike States' Costs
06/27/2006 NYAPRS Round Up: 'The Best Year Ever for Mental Health?'
06/27/2006 GNS: Deal on Mental Health Coverage Could Kick in Jan. 1
06/27/2006 USPRA Hires Government Relations Director
06/27/2006 Reuters: Nicotine-like Drug May Improve Thinking of Those w/ Schizophrenia
06/27/2006 Ctr for Psych Rehab Online Seminar: Research Issues for Consumers/Survivors
06/27/2006 AP: Democrats Want Feds to Negotiate Medicare Drug Prices
06/27/2006 P&SB: Binghmaton Children's Psychiatric Unit Dedicated Today
06/27/2006 MH Housing Campaign Urges Governor to Approve OMH Housing Wait List
06/26/2006 MHW: NYS Legislature to Act on Parity, SHU, Housing Wait List Bills
06/26/2006 US Doing 'Terrible Job' Aiding Mentally Ill Prisoners, Human Rights Group Says
06/24/2006 Gazette: No Solitary Confinement for Inmates w/ Mental Illnesses
06/24/2006 Journal News: Mental Health Housing Wait List Created
06/24/2006 Legislature Reaches Timothy's Law Deal, Passage Expected in September
06/24/2006 Legislature Restores PDL Protection, Extends Medicaid Wrap for 'Duals' Till January
06/24/2006 NYS Legislature News Release on Timothy's Law Agreement
06/23/2006 Senate OKs OMH Housing Wait List Bill, SHU & Timothy's Law Efforts Continue
06/23/2006 Senate OKs OMH Housing Wait List Bill, SHU & Timothy's Law Efforts Continue
06/23/2006 MHASC: SENATE UNANIMOUSLY PASSES SHU BILL!
06/22/2006 Albany Update: Senate Stalling Timothy's Law Deal, Senate Push Continues for SHU, Wait List
06/22/2006 Supreme Court Declines to Act on Objections to State 'Clawback' Medicare Payments
06/22/2006 Last Chance! Tell Sen. Bruno, Your Senator to Pass a Proper Timothy's Law!
06/22/2006 Gary O'Brien Reconfirmed as CQCAPD Chairman by NYS Senate
06/21/2006 GNS: Lawmakers Dig In Seeking Deal on Timothy's Law
06/21/2006 SHU Advocates Intensify Efforts Aimed at Senate Passage
06/20/2006 MHASC: It All Comes Down to 6 Senators
06/20/2006 NYAPRS Update: SHU, Timothy's Law, Multicultural Centers of Excellence, Medicaid/Medicare Bills
06/20/2006 CSEA Wants Non Profit to Back 'Quality Care' Legislation
06/19/2006 Crunch Time for SHU, Timothy's Law, Civil Commitment, Medicaid Restorations
06/19/2006 MHASC: Call Senate Rules Committee to Move SHU Bill for Floor Vote!
06/16/2006 Advocates, Legislators: OMH Housing Wait List is Essential for Appropriate Planning
06/16/2006 TLC: Call Albany to Urge Timothy's Law Passage
06/15/2006 MHASC: SHU Bill Could Go This Year, Call Albany Monday!
06/15/2006 Online Video: Creating Successful Practitioner-Consumer Alliances
06/15/2006 Call Albany Today to Cap Part D Co-Pays at $200/Year!
06/15/2006 AP: Clinton Measure Would Boost Bental Health Efforts for Vets
06/14/2006 Study: Trauma Can Cause Schizophrenia
06/14/2006 HHS: 8.7 Million Signed Up for Part D, 4-5 Million Yet to Enroll
06/14/2006 CMHS: Regional Consumer/Survivor Network to Meet in NYC July 11
06/13/2006 MHASC: Keep Calling Senate Leaders to Pass the 'SHU'
06/13/2006 MHASC: Keep Calling Senate Leaders to Pass the 'SHU'
06/13/2006 SHN: '10 Activities to Help Mental Health, Avoid Therapy
06/13/2006 J. News: Mental Health Advocates Seek to Reach out to Ethnic Groups
06/13/2006 MHEP: June 23 Long Island Bi-County Conference Features Rich Program
06/12/2006 Last Push: Urge Senate Leaders TODAY to Move 'SHU' Bill!
06/12/2006 UPI: States Enlist Help of Peers to Improve MH Care, Hold Down Costs
06/12/2006 MHW: CDC Study Reveals Hispanic Youth More Prone to Suicide
06/12/2006 NYT: Diabetes Poses Major Threat to Those w/ Psych Disabilities
06/09/2006 DOH Issues Update on Life After the Medicaid Wraparound after July 1
06/09/2006 Alert: Call Albany Monday for Last Push for SHU Bill!
06/09/2006 Correction: SHU 'Last Push' Call for Monday June 12!
06/08/2006 GNS: NYS Advocates Press Senate to Pass 'SHU' Bill
06/08/2006 National Report Urges End to Severe Isolation of Prisoners w/ Severe Mental Illnesses
06/08/2006 NYT: Use of Antipsychotics by the Young Rose Fivefold
06/08/2006 6 States Picked for New Disability Health Care Improvement Initiative
06/08/2006 Globe: Woman w/ PTSD Forcibly Stripped by Male Guards Sues Hospital
06/08/2006 Assembly Calls on Senate to Negotiate Deal on Timothy's Law
06/07/2006 Chief Defenders Issue Statement Opposing Civil Commitment Legislation
06/07/2006 MHASC: Senate Must Not Delay to Stop Suffering of Inmates w/ Severe Psych Disoders
06/06/2006 AP: Feds Bash New York's Anti-Medicaid Fraud Efforts
06/05/2006 Timothy's Law Campaign Picks Up Strong Capitol Area Support
06/05/2006 L Weekly: Mental Illness in the African American Community
06/05/2006 Herald, Times: Not a Good Time to Be Poor, Disabled in America
06/05/2006 W Post Airs Debate Over Forced Outpatient Treatment
06/05/2006 Heal Thyself, Heal the World
06/05/2006 Study: Private Insurance Costs Up to Cover Medicaid, Medicare Payments Dip
06/05/2006 W Post: HIPAA Medical Privacy Law Gets 'Lax Enforcement'
06/02/2006 Indiana Moves Severely Psychiatrically Disabled Inmates Out of Isolation
06/02/2006 Border Mail: State Official Apologizes to Australians with Psychiatric Disabilities
06/02/2006 AP: Timothy's Law Supporters to Rally in Saratoga Springs Today
06/02/2006 MHW: Outgoing SAMHSA Head Curie Reflects on Priorities, Challenges
06/02/2006 SAMHSA Releases Training Guide to Reduce Seclusion and Restraint Use
06/01/2006 Psych News Looks at Lack of Sex Offender Research, Treatment Controvery
06/01/2006 Yorkshire Post: Many w/ Mental Problems Have Undiagnosed Medical Illnesses
06/01/2006 P Journal: NYS Senate Should Let Conference Committee Reach Parity Deal

May

05/31/2006 TX County Launches First Ever Mental Health Public Defender Office
05/31/2006 Alert: Urge Congress, SAMHSA to Eliminate Threat to National Consumer Grants!
05/31/2006 NPT: Nonprofits Face More Federal Budget Cuts
05/31/2006 Inquirer: Donations Tie Drug Firms and Nonprofits
05/31/2006 P&SB: Breaking the Silence of Mental Illness
05/30/2006 Today's 4:00 PM NYAPRS Cultural Competence TC Looks at OMH Plan
05/30/2006 Alert: Join Timothy's Law Rally in Saratoga This Friday!
05/26/2006 Times: Rosalynn Carter Pushes for Parity, Assails Stigma
05/26/2006 Globe: Judge Order NH to Improve Prison MH Services
05/26/2006 Group Seeks to Award Works from Artists w/ Disabilities
05/26/2006 Study: Trauma of September 11 Remains Unhealed for Most
05/24/2006 Newsday: Doctors Say Medical Needs of People w/ Schizophrenia Are Overlooked
05/24/2006 Alert: Call NYS Senate Leader Bruno TOMORROW to Move the SHU Bill!
05/23/2006 Psych News: Scientists Identify Strategies To Prevent Mental Illnesses
05/23/2006 Deegan Emphasizing Message of Transformation From 'Handicaptivity'
05/23/2006 CMHS to Host Services for Latinos in Recovery TC TOMORROW
05/23/2006 MNT: State Officials Warn That Dual Eligibles Could Face More Part D Disruptions
05/23/2006 MNT, UPI: Study Identifies Predictors Of Bipolar Disorder Risk
05/23/2006 NYT: Andrew Goldstein to Get Third Trial
05/23/2006 DOH Releases Medicaid Preferred Drug Program Alert
05/22/2006 NYT: Experts Call for Alternatives to Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders
05/22/2006 Alert: E-Mail Your NYS Senator Today to Move SHU Bill Out for Floor Vote!
05/19/2006 OMH: Geriatric Mental Health Planning Council Holds Initial Meeting
05/19/2006 Newsday Presses Senate to Pass Timothy's Law
05/18/2006 Ruling: MI Does Not Protect Employee from Disciplinary Action for 'Egregious' Misconduct
05/18/2006 Canadian Senate Considering Alchohol Tax to Boost Community MH Services
05/18/2006 MNT: Partner Violence Creates Commonly Hidden MH Burden
05/18/2006 USA Today: Freud - So Wrong and Yet So Right
05/17/2006 CHN: Urge Congress TODAY to Reject Human Services Budgety Cuts
05/17/2006 Independent: Mental Health Chief Faults State Civil Commitment Plan
05/17/2006 WeNews: Psychiatric Labels Plague Women's Mental Health
05/17/2006 June 23 Orange Co MH Conference Features Wellness Self Management Focus
05/16/2006 MNT: UK Launches Major Depression Counseling Initiative
05/16/2006 Psych News: Clinicians, Public Benefit From Cultural-Diversity Programs
05/16/2006 USA Today: Many War Vets' Stress Disorders Go Untreated
05/16/2006 Deseret News Teen Suicide Series Has Powerful Impact
05/12/2006 AP: Bill That Would Have Threatened State Parity Laws Dies in Senate
05/12/2006 Census Bureau: 1/5 of Americans Have Disabilities, 56% are Employed
05/10/2006 MHANYS 'Life. A work of Art' May 11 Loudonville Fundraiser
05/10/2006 MHW: Conn. Moves Forward With Plans For Recovery-Oriented MH System
05/10/2006 Oswego News: Clubhouse's Anti-Stigma Effort Features Candlelight Labyrinth
05/09/2006 USA Today: Most Needy May Miss Medicare D Sign-Up
05/09/2006 Lakeland Ledger: Mental Illness Behind Bars
05/08/2006 CHN: Call Congress TODAY to Stop Bad Budget, No Budget Better for Human Services
05/08/2006 Courant: What Happens When A Prison Becomes An Asylum
05/08/2006 NYAPRS Board Seeks Nominees for 2006 Award Winners
05/08/2006 HTH Hosts May 26 Training for Peers Working With Formerly Incarcerated
05/08/2006 Community Integration Study on Peer Support Seeks Paid Respondents
05/08/2006 Release: Assembly Calls For Resumption of Civil Commitment Conference Committee
05/05/2006 OMH: Suicide Prevention Materials Now Available in Chinese
05/05/2006 Tribune: Amidst High Expulsion of Preschoolers, MH Experts Tackle Behavioral Issues
05/05/2006 NYT: Pataki Restores Some 'Unconstitutional' Medicaid Allocations w/ Past Year's $
05/05/2006 Forbes: Disclosure of BiPolar Disorder in Workplace a Mixed Bag
05/05/2006 Candadian Study to Look at Impact of Psychiatric Labels
05/04/2006 Join Stepped-Up Campaign To Oppose Association Health Plan Legislation
05/04/2006 MNT: Medicare D Enrollment Concentrated Among Few Insurers
05/04/2006 Alert: Step Up Calls to Congress to Vote Down Proposed Budget Cuts
05/04/2006 NYPR: Groups Say Pataki Must Release More TANF Funds
05/03/2006 MNT, BP: Diet, Sleep and Doctors' Considerations for Those w/ BiPolar Conditions
05/03/2006 WSJ: Inmates w/ Psych Disabilities Languish in Prison Trapped by Rules
05/03/2006 SAMHSA Expands Matrix Of Program Priorities
05/02/2006 OMH, Wal-Mart, Sesame St Partner on Military Families Outreach Project
05/02/2006 OMH Releases Balanced Scorecard on Website
05/02/2006 GNS: Pataki, Lawmakers Still Differ on NYS Budget
05/01/2006 MNT: NYC Launches New Depression Awareness, Screening Campaigns
05/01/2006 Herald: Federal Takeover of California's Prison MH System Possible

April

04/30/2006 New York's Medicaid Preferred Drug Program to Start This Summer
04/30/2006 Psych Rehab Certification Program Launches Computer Based Testing
04/28/2006 Hospital Groups Sue, Bruno Urges Governor to Permit Health Restorations
04/27/2006 Override Aftermath: Hikes to Recovery, Housing, Children's Services, COLA Safe
04/27/2006 O. Times: Ogdensburg Backs St Lawrence PC Sex Offender Confinement Plan
04/27/2006 May 17 USPRA Audio Conference Features Dr Neal Adams
04/27/2006 Call Senate Leaders Monday to Move SHU Bill for Floor Vote
04/26/2006 Call State Senators Locally TOMORROW to Pass Timothy's Law
04/26/2006 Alert: Call Washington to Fight Proposed Human Services Cuts
04/25/2006 TU, GNS, NYT: Assembly Overrides Pataki Vetoes, Senate Likely to Follow
04/25/2006 College Offers Class on Issues Linked to Hispanic Patient Care
04/25/2006 TU: Roslynn Carter Press for Parity at Albany Reception
04/25/2006 All Invited to May 17 Assembly Disability Awareness Day
04/25/2006 USPRA Public Policy Update: Medicaid, Section 8 Housing, Disability Research
04/25/2006 Times: Feds Policy Protect Part D Drugs, Enrollment Deadline Approaches
04/25/2006 Join Timothy's Law Supporters in Westchester, NYC, LI, Utica, Rockland, Albany
04/25/2006 TU, GNS: Senate Overrides Stalled Pending Possible Negotiations w/ Governor
04/25/2006 'SHU' Bill to 'Ban the Box', Improve Prison Safety Passes Senate Corrections Committee
04/21/2006 Times, Reuters: DSM Contributers Had Financial Ties to Drug Companies
04/21/2006 MNT, Sun-Times: Medicare D Enrollment Extension Controversy, Drug Price Hike
04/21/2006 Spitzer ARC Remarks Call for Revolution of Empowerment, Employment
04/19/2006 Psych. Times: Stigma Continues in Hollywood
04/19/2006 GNS: Advocates Launch NYS Campaign for Mental Health Housing
04/17/2006 CMHS to Host 'Self-disclosure' Training TC April 27
04/17/2006 SAMHSA: Nat. Research & Training Ctr to Study Self-Determination
04/17/2006 Urge Your US Senator to Oppose Bill Threatening Health Protections for PWDs
04/17/2006 Study: Behavioral Therapy Helps Those w/ MH & Substance Abuse Disorders
04/13/2006 Albany: Will Pataki, Legislature Negotiate in Wake of Vetoes? Is COLA Lost?
04/13/2006 AP: Child Psychiatrists in Short Supply Across the Nation
04/13/2006 Study: Parents' Mental Health Profoundly Affect Children's Behavior
04/13/2006 Bronx MH Court Selected To Participate In National Learning Initiative
04/13/2006 MHEP's Annual Regional Conferences: May 17 in Syracuse, May 23 in Albany
04/13/2006 Correction: 3 Year 2.5% COLA Still Good, Language Changes Alone Vetoed
04/12/2006 Times, TU: Fight Brewing Over Expected Health Care Vetoes
04/12/2006 MNT: HHS Chief Urges States to Cut Back on Medicaid Elgibility, Service Options
04/12/2006 RECOVERY REPORT - SPECIAL BUDGET ALERT
04/11/2006 TU, AP: Even w/ Overrides, Pataki Might Not Approve 'Unconstitutional' Budget Adds
04/11/2006 Alert: Call Your Senator RIGHT NOW to Urge Passage of Timothy's Law
04/11/2006 Act Today!
04/11/2006 AP: Pataki, Legislature Clash over Budget, Pharsalia Example
04/10/2006 Times, GNS: Pataki Expected to Block $2 Billion in NYS Budget Items, Overrides Pending?
04/10/2006 Newsday: LI Probation Officers Find Sex Offenders Most Compliant
04/10/2006 Poughkeepsie Journal Finds Councilwoman's Remarks 'Appalling'
04/10/2006 Alert: Call NYS Senate TOMORROW to Pass Timothy's Law
04/08/2006 MHW, GNS: Public Interest in Senate Action on 'SHU' Bill Mounts
04/07/2006 AP: Opposition to Budget Plan by GOP Moderates Derail Federal Budget Deal
04/07/2006 P Journal: MH Agency Head Blast City Leader for Discrimination & Prejudice
04/06/2006 Albany Times Union Calls for Passage of 'SHU' Bill
04/06/2006 Call Washington NOW to Urge No Vote re Health, Housing Cuts!!
04/06/2006 CMHR: Senate Caucus on Mental Health Reform Established
04/05/2006 OMH Releases NYS Adult Home Case Management/Peer Specialist RFP
04/05/2006 Alert: Urge Your Legislator to Respond to Disability Rights Voting Survey This Week!
04/04/2006 Ashcraft, Anthony: Treatment Planning Must Focus on Person, Not Paperwork
04/04/2006 Adams, Grieder: Models, Principles and Values of Person /Family-Centered Planning
04/04/2006 Knight et al: True Transformation or More Reform Without Change?
04/04/2006 TU, Ottaway: Albany Awaits Budget Deal...or Vetoes
04/04/2006 OMH Releases RFP for External Evaluation of AOT Program
04/04/2006 NYS Gubernatorial Candidates Intensify Focus on Medicaid Fraud
04/03/2006 NYAPRS NYC Hosts April 22 Film Festival Fundraiser
04/02/2006 Gannett: Governor Has Till April 12 To Change State Legislature's Plan
04/02/2006 Gannett, D&C: OMH Facilities Make Room for Sex Offenders, Pharsalia Plan Stalled

March

03/31/2006 Court Upholds Pataki Sex Offender Confinement Policy; Appeal Exptected
03/30/2006 W Post, Times: Landmark Study Finds MH Parity Does Not Hike Insurance Costs
03/30/2006 AP, Times: Talk Moves to Potential Budget Vetoes and Overrides
03/30/2006 CHN: We Can Beat A Bad House Budget If You Call.
03/30/2006 L Gazette, Post-Standard: Bill Would Keep Inmates w/ Psych Disabilities Out of Solitary
03/30/2006 Upcoming OMH State Plan Hearings A Good Oppt'y to Press on Unmet Needs
03/30/2006 CNN's Cooper Transcript on Use of Aversive Shock for Children
03/29/2006 TU: Lawmaker, Advocates Push Bill to Aid NYS Inmates with Mental Illnesses
03/29/2006 NYS Legislature Reaches 2-House Budget Deal, Gov's Possible Veto May Face Override
03/29/2006 Post-Standard: 'Civil Confinement Has to be One Option'
03/29/2006 NYS Boosts Medicaid Oversight, Chemung Co Demo Would Monitor, Re-route Medicaid Use
03/29/2006 Legislature's Final MH Budget: Broad COLA, Full Restoration of '04 Cut
03/28/2006 Times: NYS Lawmakers Hit Deadlock on False Medicaid Claims
03/28/2006 MNT: 6 Million Dual Eligibles Enrolled in Medicare D; Feds Planning Version 2
03/28/2006 MHASC: NYS Assembly Resoundingly Passes 'SHU Bill': On to the Senate
03/27/2006 T H-R: As Area Community Programs Increase, Middletown PC Closes
03/27/2006 NYAPRS: Legislative Update on Medicaid, Medicare, Adult Home Resident Issues
03/27/2006 Britain Rejects Broad Forced Outpatient Treatment Measure
03/26/2006 AP: Advocates Blast Proposal to Undo 'Physician Override' Protection
03/26/2006 D&C: Rochester Crisis Cops Effective, Weren't Called in Fatal Police Action
03/24/2006 TU, GNS: Legislature Feeling Pressure of On-Time Budget Crunch
03/24/2006 Globe: Lawmaker Takes Battle with Depression to Airwaves
03/24/2006 AP: ADHD Drugs May Get Psychosis, Mania Warnings
03/23/2006 GNS: MH Committee Defers Pharsalia Approval to Leadership, Confinement in Existing OMH Beds Authorized
03/22/2006 Times: Revisiting Schizophrenia: Are Drugs Always Needed?
03/22/2006 CMS to Send Letters to Provide 'Extra Help' to Medicare D Enrollees
03/22/2006 Albany Update: MH Agreement Delay; Gov Renews Push for Civol Confinement Facility
03/22/2006 AP: School Defends Use of Adversive Shock Treatment
03/22/2006 Alert: Legislature Approves $4.3 Million for Recovery Services, Direct Care/Operating Costs COLA
03/21/2006 Call Senate Leaders Today for Key Medicaid Drug Patient Protection!
03/21/2006 Newsday: Board of Regents Considering Halt in Use of ECT-Based Facilities
03/21/2006 Times: Medication and Talk Therapy Helpful for Depressed Seniors
03/21/2006 Bazelon: What Deficit Reduction Means for People w/ Mental Disabilities
03/20/2006 Religious Leaders Battle Discriminatory MH Insurance Caps in Albany, Milwaukee
03/20/2006 NYAPRS Update: MH Budget Could be Decided This Afternoon
03/20/2006 MHW: NY Advocates Step Up Efforts After Assembly Passage of Timothy's Law
03/20/2006 NYSCAHR Alert: Contact Albany NOW, Last Push for Adult Home Resident $ Initiatives!
03/16/2006 Lawsuit Sparks Debate Over Mental Illness in College
03/15/2006 Albany Budget Moving Fast: CALL TODAY FOR RECOVERY SERVICES HIKE!
03/15/2006 National Council's April 8-11 Orlando Conference Offers Program for the Future
03/15/2006 non compliance of micas
03/15/2006 P&SB: Assembly Reject Pharsalia Plan to Give State Time to Plan Sex Offender Policy
03/15/2006 L Gazette: Timothy's Law Campaign Picks Up Steam with Assembly Passage
03/15/2006 CQCAPD Highlights Efforts on Medicaid, Adult Homes, Seclusion/Restraint
03/15/2006 Bazelon: Court Orders Community MH Services for Ca. Foster Kids
03/14/2006 Family Sues School District for Sending ADD Boy to Facility Using Shock Tx
03/14/2006 MNT: Bush, CMS Say Medicare Part D Problems Have Decreased
03/14/2006 Call Albany TOMORROW to See Recovery Services Hike is Top Priority!
03/13/2006 P. News: Lamictal on Rise, Lithium Favored for Suicidal BiPolar Treatment
03/13/2006 Alert: Legislature Provides $4.3 Million for Recovery Services, Resident/Upstate Housing; PDP Protections
03/13/2006 Adult Home Advocates Say Law Allows Residents To Swelter
03/13/2006 NYAPRS: Get Ready to Call Albany One More Time for Recovery Services Hike!
03/10/2006 MNT: Bush '07 Entitlement Cuts Might Not Go in Election Year
03/10/2006 Study: Competitive Work Barriers of $ Disincentives, Race, Lack of Rehab Support
03/10/2006 Buff. News: Civil Confinement in the Eyes of a Sex Offender
03/09/2006 Assembly Rejects St Lawrence, Rochester, Pharsalia Civil Commitment Plan
03/09/2006 Timothy's Law Easily Passes NYS Assembly
03/09/2006 NYNP: OMH Delays PROS Rollout
03/08/2006 Times: Group Sues NYS re Nursing Home Placement of Ex-Hospital Patients
03/08/2006 States Seek to Sue Feds Over State Burden of Medicare Part D
03/08/2006 Study to Examine High Rate of Latina Teen Suicide Attempts
03/08/2006 NYAPRS 3/21 CC Learning TC to Feature Dr Alicia Lucksted on LGBT Issues
03/07/2006 Office of Mental Health Posts Detailed Kendra's Law Data
03/07/2006 TU, GNS: Advocates Oppose Proposed Civil Commitment Law
03/07/2006 Sex Crime Victims, Treatment Experts Oppose NYS Civil Commitment Law
03/07/2006 NOW is the Time! Call Albany TODAY for $10m Boost for Recovery Services!
03/07/2006 USPRA: National MH Groups Urge Congress to Reject Proposed Federal Cuts
03/06/2006 Alert: Call Albany This Tuesday for $10 Million Emergency Fund for Recovery Services!
03/03/2006 Alert: Call Albany This Tuesday for $10 Million Emergency Fund for Recovery Services!
03/03/2006 TU, AP: Leaders Agree $750M More for 06 Budget, On-time Budget Sought
03/03/2006 Advocates Seek Permanent Medicaid Coverage for Drugs Not Covered by Medicare Part D
03/02/2006 Observer: Civil Commitment 'Stealth Jail Terms' for Sex Offenders
03/02/2006 Kaiser Medicare Update: CMS Considering Fewer Medicare D Plans for 07
03/02/2006 Kaiser: Governors Believe Medicaid Changes Will Curb Costs
03/01/2006 NAMI: Nation's Mental Healthcare System Gets
03/01/2006 Kaiser Part D Survey: 37 States Provide Temporary Coverage for Dual Eligibles
03/01/2006 Bazelon Alert: Medicaid Recipients Will Have to Document Citizenship
03/01/2006 AP: Senate to Favor More Tax Cuts, Assembly Focus on Restorations

February

02/27/2006 Gazette: Legislators Meet with Adult Home Residents Over Living Conditions, Drug Costs
02/27/2006 Despite Snag, Clubhouse of Suffolk Prepares for PROS
02/26/2006 Metroland: Cruel and Unusual: Dying in Solitary in a NY Prison
02/26/2006 NYC Medicaid MC Plans Want OMH/DOH Input on Plan to Add 'SPMI' Group
02/26/2006 Minnesota Governor Announces State MH Reform Initiative
02/26/2006 MHASC Announces March 28 Legislative Day, 2 NYC Prep Sessions
02/26/2006 Benefit News: Mental Illness Exacts a High Financial, Human Toll
02/26/2006 No Carolina Diverts Community Reinvestment $ to Pay for New Hospital
02/24/2006 Newsday: Group Home Accidents Leave Many Questions
02/24/2006 M News: Changing Eating Habits May Be Affecting Mental Health
02/23/2006 Schumer: Medicare Part D Costs NYS $115 Million
02/23/2006 Bazelon: Urge Congress to Reject New Bush '07 Mental Health Cuts
02/22/2006 Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Study Finds More Frequent, Longer Mood Swings
02/22/2006 Monitor: Light, Ion, CBT Found Effective with SAD
02/21/2006 New Mexico: Summer Kendra's Law Hearing, New Advance Directives Law
02/21/2006 USPRA: 'Peer Support as a Medicaid Service' 3/22 Audio Training
02/19/2006 AP: Advocates Sue re 'Wrongful' Connecticut Nursing Home Placements, Calls for Girls Inpt. Unit
02/19/2006 Kentucky Jail MH Crisis Network Shows Promising Results
02/18/2006 Changing Minds' Coalition Pushes for Prisoners w/ Psychiatric Disabilities
02/18/2006 BU Center for Psych Rehab: May 8-9 Transition Age Youth Conferences
02/18/2006 SAMHSA Issues Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery
02/18/2006 MHW: Michigan Commission Pans State's Mental Health Reform Progress
02/16/2006 Kendra's Law Stalls In New Mexico Senate
02/15/2006 Newsday Editorial Seeks MH Insurance Parity
02/15/2006 Medicare Update: Ongoing Problems, State Savings, Senate Hearing
02/15/2006 Study: Combo Drug Therapy Won't Improve Schizophrenia Care
02/15/2006 Maternal Antidepressant Use Can Trigger Withdrawal in Newborns
02/15/2006 NYSCAHR: Adult Home Residents in Albany Today Seeking Legislative Aid
02/14/2006 Journal: Heartfelt Views of Kendra's Law Revealed Amidst NM Debate
02/13/2006 Civil Commitment Laws Under Debate in Missouri, Ohio
02/13/2006 Court Again Rejects Pataki'
02/13/2006 Assembly, Senate Negotiate Civil Commitment Proposal
02/13/2006 Civil Commitment Proposals' Reception Differ at Marcy, Pharsalia Communities
02/13/2006 Journal: New Mexico's Kendra's Law Under Fierce Debate
02/08/2006 Advocates Urge New Mexico Legisature to Reject Kendra's Law Proposal
02/08/2006 Civil Commitment Update: A Review of Recent Media Coverage
02/08/2006 PI: Updating SSI Rules Would Save $ But Hurt Eligible Recipients.
02/07/2006 AP, TU: Legislature to Override Pataki Veto of Medicare D Drug Safety Net
02/07/2006 Details, Coverage of Historic NYAPRS Legislative Day
02/07/2006 New Resource for Advocates for PWPDs in Criminal Justice System
02/07/2006 Senate Joins Assembly in Pataki Medicare Coverage Veto Override
02/06/2006 Times: Move to Commit Sex Offenders Raises Rights Issues in Albany
02/05/2006 Gazette: License Now Needed in NYS to Counsel Clients
02/05/2006 Times: Bush to Propose New Round of Medicare Cuts
02/05/2006 SAMHSA to Host 3 Stigma Related TCs Feb-April 06
02/05/2006 Alert: Urge Legislators to Override Veto of Bill Protecting Drugs Lost Under Medicare Mess
02/03/2006 Recovery,
02/03/2006 Recovery, Rights Advocates Fight New Mexico Kendra's Law Bid
02/03/2006 CHN: Something to Celebrate in the Face of Federal Budget Vote This Week
02/03/2006 Times: Feds Saving $ Under New Medicare Drug Plan
02/02/2006 House Approves Medicaid Cuts by Slim 2-Vote Margin
02/02/2006 Civil Commitment Conference Committee to Start Monday, Members Named

January

01/31/2006 NYAPRS: MH Advocates Seek Emergency Hike to Address 'Full State of Crisis'
01/31/2006 Times: New Study Finds Health of Homeless Worse Than Imagined
01/31/2006 NYAPRS Mourns Passing of Walter Gerbereux
01/30/2006 Last Chance to Urge Your Rep to Oppose Fed. Medicaid Cuts!!
01/30/2006 NYAPRS Leg. Day Tomorrow: 7 Reasons to Ignore a Little Rain/ Snow & Stand Tall!
01/30/2006 OMH Strategic Plan on Civil Confinement
01/30/2006 TU: Albany Co Program Helps Defendants Get MH Aid
01/30/2006 Post: OMH Facility OT Soars by 60% Since 2000
01/28/2006 Jobs: NYS Office of Mental Health, PEOPLe, Inc, Urban Justice Center
01/27/2006 NYAPRS Releases Legislative Day Book for This Tuesday
01/27/2006 Consumer Driven Services Directory
01/26/2006 NYAPRS 2006 State Budget Legislative Testimony
01/26/2006 ALERT: Urge Your Congressional Rep to Reject Terrible Medicaid Cuts!
01/26/2006 Coverage of MH Budget Hearing Focus on Civil Commitment, Suicide Prevention
01/26/2006 NYAPRS 2006 State Budget Legislative Testimony
01/24/2006 TU: Sex Offenders Need Treatment, Not Lifetime of Civil Lockup
01/23/2006 TU: Solitary Confinement of Inmates w/ Psych Disabilities May End
01/23/2006 NYAPRS '06 State Advocacy Priorities, Bus Info for Next Tues Albany Day
01/23/2006 Pataki Extends Medicaid Coverage for Duals for Another 7 Days
01/22/2006 Times: Medicare Woes Take High Toll on Mentally Ill
01/22/2006 MHW: Advocates Greet, Ready for State Budget Debate; Seek to Build on Proposed COLA
01/20/2006 Student Sues School Following Suspension Tied to Depression Treatment
01/20/2006 GNS: MH Advocates Seek Ban on Solitary Confinement
01/20/2006 NYAPRS: Details of the 3-Year COLA for OMH Providers
01/18/2006 NYAPRS: Details of the Executive Budget Proposal
01/17/2006 AP: Medicare Vows to Fix New Drug Program Disaster
01/17/2006 State Budget: COLA, Part D 6 Mo Buyout, Kids Services, Rent Stipend, Geriatric, Civil Commitment
01/16/2006 GNS: Senator Fears Sex-Crime Frenzy May Lead to Unwise Legislation
01/16/2006 NYS: Medicaid Will Continue to Pay for Dual Eligibles' Drugs This Week, Assembly Bill Pending
01/16/2006 Today's Budget Release: Hike for Community MH Services, Medicaid Threats Expected
01/13/2006 NYPR: Mental Health Groups React to Pataki's Civil Confinement Plan
01/13/2006 Still Time to Plan for Jan. 31 NYAPRS Legislative Day in Albany!
01/12/2006 GNS: Pataki Sex Offender Confinement Plan Gains Support
01/12/2006 Supreme Court: States Can be Sued by Inmates w/ Disabilities
01/11/2006 NYAPRS Releases Statement on Governor's Sex Offender Confinement Plan
01/10/2006 NIH Panel Prefers CBT to Drugs to Address Insomnia
01/09/2006 AP: Drug Companies Will Have to Pay to Get on Preferred Drug List
01/09/2006 MH Advocates Oppose Sex Offender Confinements in MH Facilities
01/08/2006 The ARC: Review of Recent Congressional Session
01/08/2006 TU, D&C: New Medicare Drug Plan Proves 'A Tough Pill'
01/06/2006 States can Committ Sex Offenders in Non-Mental Health Facilities
01/05/2006 State of the State: No Mention of Big Medicaid Cuts..nor 10% Hike for MH Agencies
01/05/2006 Reuters: Witnessing Abuse Harms Children's Mental Health
01/04/2006 Times: Today Will Tell How Gov Pataki Treats $2 Billion Surplus
01/03/2006 UK Transformation Vision: Personal Service Budgets, Alternatives to Admission
01/03/2006 Study Reports a 10%: Psych Drug Use for Teens
01/02/2006 Tips to Help a Smooth Transition to New Medicare Drug Benefit
01/02/2006 GNS, Ottaway: Expect On Time Session, No Major New Initiatives in 06
01/01/2006 Low Wage Workers Cheer, Business Owners Jeer New NYS Minimum Wage Hike
01/01/2006 Medicare Beneficiaries, Pharmacists Fret Over New Drug Benefit
01/01/2006 GNS: NYS Advocates Call for 10% Hike in Community MH Services Funding
01/01/2006 HR Expert: MH Services Save Employers in the Long Run
01/01/2006 New Independent Study Finding Depression Drugs Safe, Beneficial Gets Mixed Reactions

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