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Panel Seeks New Standards on Involuntary Commitment (Utah)
Salt Lake Tribune story reprinted at PsycPORT - "Members of a legislative task force studying Utah's involuntary commitment law agreed Thursday to move forward with a proposal that would change the standards for hospitalizing or treating mentally ill people against their will."  
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Special wards lend aid to mentally-ill gays (Pennsylvania)
Philadelphia Inquirer story on a unit for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender patients, designed to "provide an emotionally safe environment for those facing stigmas on two fronts. Often patients are not accepted by others with mental illness because of their sexual orientation and feel like outcasts in the gay community because of the mental illness."  
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Mental health agency taking 6 percent cut (Oklahoma)
Story in The Oklahoman - "On the heels of plunging state budget revenues in August, Oklahoma's mental health director said Thursday he is ordering statewide programs cut by $10 million. Mental health director Terry Cline said the agency's projected $150 million budget will be reduced by more than 6 percent for the rest of this fiscal year, which means funds going to the 20 community mental health centers must be cut." See also Mental health center shifts to state asset - "A budget crunch coupled with an overload at a Norman hospital led the Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to shift from contractual services to becoming the first state-run mental health site in Tulsa."  
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Advocacy group urges state to correct system for mentally ill children (Missouri)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch story on a report by Citizens for Missouri's Children which indicates that the state "fails to treat many mentally ill children because of shortcomings in its Medicaid system, inadequate spending and a confusing maze of state agencies."  
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Budget cuts threaten mental health programs (South Carolina)
AP story at the Herald Tribune on possible midyear budget cuts to state agencies thaT could threaten a program "aimed at getting mentally ill patients out of costly hospital emergency rooms."  
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