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���������� Note: According to the newly released data obtained by the ���������� Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), 40,000 solitary confinement […]

Here’s How Easily ���������� Could Become the First Major U.S. City to End Solitary Confinement By Natasha Lennard  The […]

���������� Note: The following materials have been culled from a variety of news sources and primary source Washington Post (see […]

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CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the […]

���������� Note: Don’t miss this terrific piece in one of the nation’s most prestigious journals of health policy thought and […]

���������� Note: We’re in the final 2 weeks of all out advocacy to win passage of the HALT bill and […]

���������� Note: The NYS campaign to win passage of the landmark HALT bill intensified over the weekend, with high profile […]

���������� Note: This Thursday, state legislative leaders and mental health and criminal justice reform advocates will be holding a 1pm Capital news […]

Friends,   For many years, self and system advocates for people with mental health challenges from across the nation have […]

Friends,   For many years, self and system advocates for people with mental health challenges from across the nation have […]

Friends, For many years, self and system advocates for people with mental health challenges from across the nation have called […]

���������� Note: Georgia’s Lindsey Sizemore has several powerful stories to share – one about Georgia’s forensic peer mentor initiative that […]

Study: Mental Health Issues Increasingly Seen in Young Americans -Rising psychological distress, depression, and suicidal thoughts in this group may […]

���������� Note: The following comes from Community Access and the ���������� Board’s Carla Rabinowitz, who writes “ the stakeholders meeting […]

���������� Note: Congratulations to the MHA of Rochester and Chacku Mathai for hosting an extremely important and timely event. Initiative […]

���������� Note: The following approach goes one step beyond the Crisis Intervention Team approach that trains police officers to better […]

���������� Note: lawmakers, survivors of incarceration, family members, and a broad cross-section of advocacy groups held joint speakouts across New […]

A Real Chance at Criminal Justice ReformSessions is out. Trump is on board. It’s time to put these necessary changes […]

���������� Note: According to the ���������� Times, HHS is finalizing a definition of gender that would define sex as […]

As U.S. Suicide Rates Rise, Hispanics Show Relative Immunity Support from family and community appear to shield Latinos from rising […]

���������� Note: We’re only 9 DAYS AWAY from this year’s ���������� Annual Conference, “Dignity, Recovery and Justice for All!”, to […]

���������� News: We’re only 2 weeks away from this year’s ���������� Annual Conference, “Dignity, Recovery and Justice for All!”, to […]

���������� Note: Mandating mental health education can represent a major advance….depending on how it will be implemented. School based education […]

���������� Note: An abhorrent finding, this article’s finish offers a powerful summation about the impact of police violence on communities, […]

���������� Note: For almost 40 years, the College of Behavioral Health Leadership (formerly ACMHA), has demonstrated the unique ability to […]

���������� News: ���������� would like to congratulate Glenn Liebman and his extraordinary team at the Mental Health Association ���������� […]

���������� News:  A cheer went out in the Assembly Chamber as the Honorable. Jeffrion L. Aubry. Assembly, District 35, Speaker Pro Tempore took […]

���������� Note: Here’s an extraordinary collection of suicide related resources thank to Garra Lloyd-Lester of Director, NYS Suicide Prevention Community […]

���������� Alert: Help us stop the suffering thousands of ����������ers endure each day. HALT Solitary Confinement for Vulnerable Groups […]

���������� Note: One of ����������’ top issues this past session and decade has been to replace torture with treatment in […]

���������� ALERT: Stop the Suffering!                        HALT Solitary Confinement for […]

���������� Note: One of ����������’ top issues this past session and decade has been to replace torture with treatment in […]

���������� Note: While the Trump Administration has been supportive of state proposals to tie work requirements to Medicaid, it drew […]

���������� Note:  We at ���������� are asking you to make phone calls, write letters and Show Up. The bigger the […]

���������� Note: NYC advocates came out last Friday to send a powerful message to the Bill Blasio administration: end the […]

���������� Note: NYS and NYC government has officially released a video series that helps explain what Health and Recovery Plans, […]

���������� Note: The tragedy of Deborah Danner’s tragic death has been followed by another tragedy, yesterday’s court ruling that exonerated […]

White Adults With Mental Illness Report More Barriers To Care, Study Shows Crain’s Health Pulse  February 1, 2018 In a […]

MHW Highlights Some of the Field’s 2018 PrioritiesMental Health Weekly January 1,8, 2018 Editor’s note: For our 2018 Special Preview […]

���������� Note: Here’s the text of one of the releases NYS Governor Cuomo has issued in advance of tomorrow’s State […]

���������� Note: A diversity of groups are coming together to regard the GOP tax proposal as a ‘tax on disability’ […]

���������� Note: 29% of prison inmates and 22% of jail inmates with mental health conditions were confined to often torturous […]

���������� Note: Please note today’s article in the ���������� Times about the rift that has existed for decades between […]

CMS BLOG http://blog.cms.gov/2017/01/17/cms-announces-extension-of-2016-reporting-deadline April 26, 2017 By: Seema Verma, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) CMS’ Ongoing Commitment […]

���������� Note: A lead candidate for the new post of Assistant Secretary for Mental Health position in the Department of […]

���������� Note: The following comes courtesy of Ron Manderscheid. Act today! Below and attached is a full run down of […]

Urgent: Tell House GOP to Reject New ACA Repeal Proposal! Once again, we are at an all hands on deck […]

���������� Note: Earlier this week, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie made criminal justice reform a most welcome centerpiece of his remarks […]

���������� Note: Two of the most prominent, widely read publications in the nation give front and center coverage to our […]

���������� Note: This year’s 2nd annual march for the dignity and rights of Americans with mental health condition was a […]

���������� Note: Police training, police and community partnerships and police working alongside co-responders who are mental health professionals are among […]

  For Immediate Release: 9/23/2016       GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO GOVERNOR CUOMO ANNOUNCES NEARLY $8 MILLION OUTREACH PROGRAM […]

‘I Wasn’t Crazy.’ A Homeless Woman’s Long War To Prove The Feds Owe Her $100,000. ByPetula DvorakWashington Post August 22, […]

���������� Note: A new study underlines the outrage of the great disparity and abysmal rates at which African-American and Hispanic […]

���������� Note: Alternative healing or complementary medicine techniques like meditation have long been the subject of great interest among people […]

���������� Note: ���������� strongly encourages informed choice in taking medications. Many in our community, including me, take them with good […]

���������� Note: Another great posting from ���������� intern David Martino. This commentary introduces a proposal to create a more seamless […]

���������� Note: The following comes from recovery and rights advocate and presider over the nation’s first mental health court, Judge […]

Police Departments Begin To Reward Restraint TacticsBy Errin Haines Whack Associated Press May 31, 2016 PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A few […]

Study Finds Racial Differences in Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment Mad in America May 24, 2016 According to a recent study […]

���������� Note: Data is showing a drop in the number of opioid prescriptions, partly due to increased public attention, tighter […]

���������� Note: An absorbing piece that deconstructs the false link between mass shooters and the presence of serious mental health […]

���������� Note: Yesterday’s Times looked at improved health and life expectancy among black Americans due in part to lower rates […]

���������� Note: Today’s postings are converging on a similar theme: “Because social realities cannot be divorced from mental ones, mental […]

���������� Note: Please come out and view ‘Healing Voices’ and be a part of an historic international ‘One Night, One […]

���������� Note: A very disturbing new federal report finds that suicide rates among nearly every age group have climbed over […]

���������� Note: On April 11, NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray announced the launch of the “Today I Thrive” campaign, ads […]

���������� Note: Each year, 43,000 people complete suicide in the United States. That’s why the “Out of Darkness Ovenight Walk” […]

���������� Note: A new study shows that as drugs – particulalry opioids – and alcohol become more accessible, life expectancy […]

���������� Note: Despite legal gains made by the LGBT community in recent years, they are still marginalized within the realms […]