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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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daily link  Wednesday, September 11, 2002


Hablemos en Confianza: Soy Unica For Adults
This new SAMHSA/CSAP site, suggested by Farra Trompeter, is "a culturally appropriate bilingual public health Web site designed to encourage and strengthen dialogue between Hispanic/Latino parents and children. This new site offers advice for Hispanic/Latino parents on listening and talking with children to improve communication, to discover parenting style, and to learn about alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs."  
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MEDLINE Abstracts - PTSD and September 11
A selection of journal abstracts focusing on posttraumatic stress disorder and bioterrorism. See also PTSD: The Trauma After the Trauma, from Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
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9/11 has important lessons for mental health workers
University of California-Davis Medical Center press release on comments by the chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UC Davis School of Medicine and director of mental health services for Sacramento county that "the massive clinical intervention mobilized to support New Yorkers can now serve as a model for ... other communities responding to major tragedies."  
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Plan to Raise Medicare Pay for Providers
New York Times article - "Just weeks after rejecting proposals to help the elderly with prescription drug costs, the Senate is poised to increase Medicare payments to doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and health maintenance organizations. Consumer advocates are furious at the prospect that Congress will address the needs of health care providers without doing anything on prescription drugs, and their anger is putting political pressure on Congress to try again to pass at least a modest drug bill this year." [Viewing New York Times resources requires registration, which is free].  
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Group rallies to oppose mental health cuts (New York)
Daily Gazette story on the Alliance For the Mentally Ill-Action, which is asking the Albany County Legislature to keep County Executive Michael Breslin from reducing funding for services to the mentally ill as he tries to dig the county out of a looming deficit.  
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