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Showing posts with label Mental Illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mental Illness. Show all posts
Monday, May 21, 2018

People with severe IDD and those with Serious Mental Illness experience similar barriers to treatment and care

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This is a talk by D.J. Jaffe from MentalIllnessPolicy.org on barriers to treatment for people with serious mental illness. It was p...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

Guns and Mental Illness : A "Dear Congress" letter from the mother of a son with bipolar disorder and his experience in his own words

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2016 Ted Talk by Eric Walton from Boise Idaho The life of Eric Walton … mental illness and fear u...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Severe Mental Illness: Treatment before Tragedy?

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San Francisco Bay Area mother, who believes the mental health care system is failing patients, is fighting for change.  [Sorry about the...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Michigan: Washtenaw County's Mental Health Mess

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The Ann Arbor News featured a long article about the decrease in funding for Community Mental Heatlh (CMH) services in Washtenaw County: ...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Stigmatizing people with serious mental illness and severe developmental disabilities

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Recently, I came across an article on the Huffington Post Website by Liza Long, the mother of a son with bipolar disorder.  The article, “...
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Friday, April 24, 2015

MI Mental Health System, Including Services to DD, Severely Impacted by Funding Cuts

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At the last Washtenaw Community Health Organization Board meeting on 4/22/15, a packet of news articles about statewide problems with bud...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Homelessness in Ann Arbor by the numbers

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We know these are not just numbers, but human beings who don’t have a permanent place to call home with some of them inhabiting places t...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Father's Plea for Treatment for his Severely Mentally Ill Son

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

When more costs less: more and better psychiatric care reduces overall costs

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An opinion piece in the New York Times, (8/3/13) by Christine Montross entitled "The Woman Who Ate Cutlery" illustrates the poi...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

When advocacy leads to tragedy: P&A under scrutiny

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On May 20, 2013 a U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on the  federal Substance Abus...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Punishment for people with mental disabilities

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Michigan's march toward the deinstitutionalization of people with mental illness and its lack of adequate funding and services in the co...
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