Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Legal and policy resources on the civil rights of people with mental disabilities, including health care, education, housing, federal benefits, insurance and employment.
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Nigel Turner's HyperGUIDE to the Mental Health Act
Overview. THE MAIN WAY IN. Divides the Act into various topics. Contents. The quickest way to find a subject if you already know what you're looking for. Introduction. For new users; please read fully and consider if your organisation should Subscribe. NEWS!!Government publishes Green Paper on NEW MENTAL HEALTH ACT. . What's New and What's Coming Keep up to date. This Introduction is in 3 Parts ...
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CONTAC
Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center The Alternatives website is up! www.alternatives2002.org The West Virginia Mental Health Consumers Association has established the Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center (Contac), which is located in the states capitol city of Charleston. A national technical assistance center, Contac serves as a resource ...
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Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
University of Virginia center for research and education on issues at the intersection of law and psychiatry or law and psychology. The Institute also conducts forensic evaluations, makes policy recommendations to government bodies, and holds symposia and conferences on topics of interest to mental health and justice professionals.
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IMHL
IMHL is committed to ensuring that members are kept fully up to date with mental health law and practice developments through courses, consultancy, in house training and membership to IMHL organisation entitling them to receive the monthly IMHL bulletin.
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MacArthur Research
Click here for the MacArthur Research Network on Mental Health and the Law (dealing with the issues of competence, coercion, and violence risk). Click here for the MacArthur Initiative on Mandated Community Treatment (currently including the article from the September 2002 issue of Psychiatric Services - requires Adobe's Acrobat Reader). ...
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The Coalition for Persons Disabled by Mental Illness
The Coalition for Persons Disabled by Mental Illness is composed of state-wide, non-profit advocacy, consumer, family and provider organizations who advocate for adequate, quality public services for citizens of North Carolina with Mental Illness ...
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Report of the Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health: A National Action
Home | The Surgeon General | The Office | Being Healthy | Publications | News | Contact Us Return to Children's Mental Health Page Report of the Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health: A National Action Agenda Department of Health and Human Services Contents Sponsors Acknowledgements Foreword Overarching Vision Goals Conference Summary Conference Proceedings Welcome Panel 1: ...
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Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System Today, some 283, 800 inmates are identified as having a mental illness. This represents 16% of the inmate populations of state and local jails. Jails have effectively become America s new mental institutions; they house a larger volume of mentally ill people than all other programs combined. However, these inmates rarely receive the treatment that ...
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Santa Cruz Mental Health Advocate
Contains articles on recovery from the label of mental illness, experiences, news and advocacy information published by the Santa Cruz County (Calif. USA) chapter of NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill).
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