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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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Paul Wellstone, 58, Icon of Liberalism in Senate, Dies
New York Times obituary of Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, co-sponsor of the mental health parity legislation still pending in Congress. [Viewing New York Times resources requires registration, which is free]. See also the APA press release APA Mourns Tragic Loss of Senator Wellstone, the statement by NMHA President and CEO Michael Faenza and the statement by Linda Warner, Chair of the Epilepsy Foundation.  
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Group to join battle for Mental Health Center (Wisconsin)
Green Bay Press-Gazette story on Save Our People - "a coalition of health-care professionals, union representatives, nursing-home residents and their families, and mental-health patients and their families" - organized in opposition to the privatization of the Brown County Mental Health Center.  
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Trial to determine if state is complying with consent decree to improve mental health care (Maine)
Brief story at WMTW on the trial in Kennebec County Superior Court in Augusta which begins today - and "will determine the future of the consent decree that ordered the state to make widespread changes in the mental health care system."  
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Mental health cuts will take human toll, protesters say (Maine)
Press Herald story - "Protesters decrying proposed cuts in state mental-health services said on Saturday that the reductions would cost far more than they would save, both in dollars spent and lives lost."  
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