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PULSE ANNUAL No. 2
January 2003

Recent Trends, Challenges and Issues in Funding Public Mental Health Services in the US
March 2002

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October 2001

 

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NAMI Supports "Keeping Families Together"Act
NAMI press release - "NAMI, the Nation’s Voice on Mental Illness, supports legislation being introduced today by U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Norm Coleman (R-MN) and Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Pete Stark (D-CA). The legislation addresses a scandal that has lingered too long in states throughout the nation—in which parents have been forced to give up custody of tens of thousands of children and adolescents with mental illnesses in order to secure necessary treatment. ..."  
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Those in the know help mentally ill (Wisconsin)
Story in the Capitol Times - "They are people who know what it is to be so paralyzed by depression or overwhelmed by psychosis that getting out of bed to brush their teeth seems impossible. Such life experience - even in today's slowly more accepting culture - might count them out for some jobs. But it's the right experience for their jobs helping others cope with mental illness as aides at the Mental Health Center of Dane County's Emergency Services Unit."  
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International Battlefield Shares Common Ground in D.C.
NAMI press release reprinted at Yahoo on NAMI's Global Partnership Initiative this week at NAMI headquarters in Virginia - "From differing continents, governments, languages and cultures, the same concerns of fighting stigma, finding funding, gaining access for people with mental illnesses to needed services and treatments were the uniting chords in a dialogue designed to strengthen mental health advocates and their organizations worldwide."  
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