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Task force outlines mental health plan for Illinois children (Illinois)
News-Gazette story - "Barbara Shaw and fellow members of the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership embarked on a five-city Illinois tour this week, promoting the task force's preliminary mental health plan for Illinois children. ... The goal is to build a coordinated system of prevention, early intervention and treatment for children and their families through schools, communities and health care agencies."  
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Program seeks to keep patients out of ER (South Carolina)
Times and Democrat story - "Health care officials say hospitals are the not appropriate place to take mentally ill patients as the state cuts mental health funding. The Orangeburg Area Mental Health Center has applied for a grant from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health to enhance its crisis stabilization program which is designed to tackle the issue. The dual purpose of the grants is for mental health centers to implement programs to help reduce the numbers of people with mental illness waiting in local emergency departments and to reduce the number of beds used in the state's two psychiatric hospitals..."  
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Forum challenges mental illness labels (Oregon)
Gazette-Times story - "Mental health issues carry an almost unshakeable stigma, and a set of preconceived notions about what is 'normal' and what is not. For those who work directly with the mentally ill, and those who struggle with both illness and its labels, confronting the issues surrounding psychiatric labels is a step toward shattering those stereotypes. Sunday, a group of area residents gathered at the Oddfellowship Hall in downtown Corvallis to discuss human rights for people with psychiatric labels, hoping to move from oppression of those individuals into a realm of awareness and wellness..."  
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Mental health consumers to run Main Link (Pennsylvania)
Story in the Daily & Sunday Review - "The Main Link of Sayre, a support center for mental health consumers that is planning to open a branch in Towanda, has some unique aspects. The day-to-day operations of The Main Link are run by mental health consumers, and that is unusual, according to Mark Beauchemin, one of the organization's two paid executive directors..."  
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