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Recent Trends, Challenges and Issues in Funding Public Mental Health Services in the US
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NIH Awards Grants For Six New Autism Research Centers
NIH press release at InteliHealth - "The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded grants to support six new research centers of a major network focusing on the biomedical and behavioral aspects of autism. These centers will join two that were funded last year. The overall initiative, called STAART (Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment) Centers Program, demonstrates NIH commitment to autism research and responds to a need expressed in the Children's Health Act of 2000."  
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The Welcome Back Awards
Web site associated with the awards created by Eli Lilly and Company "to fight the stigma associated with depression and promote the understanding that depression is treatable. Each year, an independent committee of national mental health leaders selects honorees in the following categories: lifetime achievement, community service, destigmatization, primary care and psychiatry. These individuals serve as guiding lights for the depression community - people who, through determination and commitment, have made a difference." The site includes a list of the 2003 honorees and a copy of the related newsletter.  
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Councilors to push for mental-health center (Massachusetts)
Lowell Sun story - "On the heels of being ignored over presenting a resolution to protest the state's decision to close the Solomon Mental Health Center, city councilors last night formed a subcommittee to muster regional support to persuade the state to reconsider."  
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Push is on for mental health funds (Illinois)
Copley News Service story - "Mental health advocates on Tuesday pushed to restore $18 million and 120 state psychiatric beds cut in Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s budget proposal, claiming the mentally ill have borne enough of the state’s financial burden."  
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Mental health services face reorganization (Virginia)
Visalia Times-Delta story - "In a move that reorganizes Tulare County's mental health services, the county Board of Supervisors approved $1.8 million in cuts to that program Tuesday. The cuts help to close a $3 million gap between revenue and expenditures in the mental health division of primary care in the county's Health and Humans Services Agency. The loss of money is because of a lack of growth in mental health money from state sales taxes as well as projected reductions in Medi-Cal money..."  
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