Mental Heath News and Articles

~ Helping, Fixing, or Serving?

~ So, What's Wrong with Hearing Voices?

~ Inner voices, inner strength: Peer-support approach challenges long-held views of mental illness

~ Breaking the Silence: Trauma-informed Behavioral Healthcare (pdf)

~ AJC: Advocates: State's mental health system improving, but gaps exist

~ Rising Mortality Rates for People with Serious Mental Illness

~ A High-Profile Executive Job as Defense Against Mental Ills

~ Peer Foundation for the South East Region

~ NPR: Mental First Aid: How To Help In An Emotional Crisis

~ Self-Directed Psychiatric Rehabilitation Activities

~ Voices Carry

~ Recovery is Real: Patient-Turned-Mentor Shares Story of Hope and Offers Support to Others

~ Trauma Informed Behavioral Healthcare (pdf)

~ A Vision for New Directions in Mental Health Reform

~ SAMHSA Toolkit: Building Your Program (pdf)

~ BARTOW BIO — Wainscott finds her passion in the mental health field

~ New Affordable Care Act Policy Helps Consumers Better Understand and Compare Benefits and Coverage

~ Documentary: The Politics of Memory by Patricia Deegan

~ Homelessness and Trauma-Informed Care Understanding What Happened Creates Breakthroughs

~ Step 3 in the Recovery-Oriented Care Continuum:

Promoting Recovery Through Psychological and Social Means

~ DBHDD July 21 Press Release on Housing in DOJ Settlement

~ Portland Tribune: Peers ‘who have been there’ guide recovery

~ SAMHSA Outlines Strategic Initiatives for 2011–2014

~ On Anniversary of Olmstead, Obama Administration Recommits to Assist Americans with Disabilities

~ Lois Curtis and President Obama

~ Deal ditches hiring rules in appointing spokesman's girlfriend

~ Gail Hornstein's Approach to Understanding Madness (pdf)

~ SAMHSA Consumer-Operated Services Evidence-Based Practices KIT Now Available

~ Inclusion of Peer Support: Catalyst to Recovery, Trauma Informed

and Community integrated based services (pdf)

~ In Memory of Benny Parker, CPS

~ Deal names new Ga. disability ombudsman

~ Rethinking Trauma: George Bonanno on Resilience

~ Supported Education for Consumers of Mental Health Services (pdf)

~ State says it’s meeting mental health timeline

~ A VISION: Mental Health Freedom and Recovery Act

~ TODAY Show American Story: He adds names to lost graves...

~ Social Role Valorization Summary by Jen Banathy

~ National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery Releases Guidelines for

Promoting Recovery Through Choice and Alternatives

~ State begins rollout of new mental health services with hospital set to close

~ New flexibility for states to improve Medicaid and implement innovative practices

~ Good News! Medicaid Buy In Program Facilitates Employment for People with Psychiatric Disabilities

~ Optum Study Shows Peer Bridgers Reduce Hospitalizations, Curb Costs

~ Finnish Open Dialogue: High recovery rates leave many psychiatric beds empty

~ Pillars of Peer Support 2 Final Report (pdf)

~ Buckley named Dean of Medical College of Georgia

~ VIDEO EXPLAINS COMING COMMUNITY SERVICES

~ Trauma-informed Care: A Call to Arms

~ Psychiatrists and Policy Makers Meet on Concerns about Overuse of Medications

~ Peer support offers promise for reducing depression symptoms

~ New Rule Ensures Students Get Health Insurance Protections of the Affordable Care Act

~ State pumps $73 million into mental health system

~ Mental Health First Aid in the USA after One Year

~ DBHDD will close NWR Hospital in Rome on June 30, 2011

~ Should Central State Hospital be preserved and Why?

~ Download webinar: Prevention and Holistic Approaches to Wellness:

A Fresh Perspective on Mental Health Recovery

~ Bazelon Center Statement on Arizona Shooting

~ Frederick man looks to build way out of homelessness

~ A New Civil Right Looks For Stronger Enforcement

~ Community Inclusion Initiatives at Consumer-Run Programs (pdf)

~ Healing Shame

~ How to Deal with Life After Trauma

~ Justice Dept/Georgia Settlement Agreement Fact Sheet (pdf)

~ Bazelon Center Lauds Agreement to Serve Georgians with Mental Disabilities in the Community Instead of State Hospitals

~ State, Justice Department reach mental health settlemen

~ Special Report: Psych Respite Run By Staff Who’ve ‘Been There’

~ Within our Reach, by Rosalynn Carter (Review)

~ Georgia Consumers List Their Priorities

~ Risk vs. Fear: Safe Is Sorry

~ Peer Counselors Support Consumers in Emergency Rooms

~ Guide to Government Benefits (pdf)

~ Pillars of Peer Support (pdf)

~ AJC: Georgia Mental Health Talks Fail

~ The Key Assistance Report, Focus on Certified Peer Specialists (pdf)

~ VIDEO: Full Committee Hearing -- The ADA and Olmstead Enforcement

~ ADA Anniversary Toolkit (2010)

~ A few tips for recognizing a recovery-oriented practice

~ DBHDD announces Director of Advocacy

~ Common Threads e-Book (pdf)

~ Creativity linked to mental health

~ Rosalynn Carter pens new book about mental health

~ Pushing for Reform

~ Open Dialogue Approach: Treatment Principles and Preliminary Results of a

Two- year Follow-up on First Episode Schizophrenia (pdf)

~ Monthly Budget Worksheet (pdf)

~ Ticket to Work Mental Health Summit Archives: Supporting Recovery Through Work

~ Mental Health Consumer Providers:A Guide for Clinical Staff (pdf)

~ House Passes Democrats’ Health Care Overhaul Package

~ President Obama releases health reform proposal

~ Ben Druss' Article in AJP re Integrated Care (pdf)

~ Transportation News & Events Update: The United We Ride National Dialogue Final Report

~ Justice Department Files for Immediate Relie Regarding Conditions in Georgia’s Hospital

~ Georgia mental health agency warns of 'quagmire' if taken over

~ History of the Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Movemen Archived Teleconference

~ NYTimes: Judi Chamberlin, 65, Is Dead - Fought for Rights for Mental Health Patients

~ Confessions of a Non-Compliant Patient - Judi Chamberlin (pdf)

~ From Privileges to Rights - 10-year anniversary

~ State ends adult mental health services at Milledgeville hospital

~ Recovery and Wellness Lifestyle—A Self-Help Guide (pdf)

~ A Decade of Little Progress Implementing Olmstead (pdf)

~ Childhood traumas linked to poor mental, physical health in adulthood

~ National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery

~ Podcasts Available on Mental Health Self-Determination

~ Central State Hospital Stops Admitting Patients

~ State Bans Smoking in Mental Hospitals

~ AJC - New mental health director faces difficult task, critics

~ DBHDD Launches Website for Job Seekers

~ ADAPT Confronts CNN at CNN HQ on Freedom for People with Disabilities

~ SAMHSA honors contributors to mental health recovery at the 2009 Voice Awards

~ H1N1 Vaccination Information for Georgia

~ DBHDD Regional Offices (xls)

~ St. Helens landlord must let tenants with mental disabilities keep assistance dogs

~ DBHDD Partners with Medical College of Georgia

~ If You Don’t Talk it Out, You’ll Act it Out (pdf)

~ What Happens to Medicaid Buy-In Participants After They Leave the Program? (pdf)

~ Federal judge rejects plan for Georgia's mental hospitals

~ Nebraska Peer Support Town Hall Meeting with Charles Willis (pdf)

~ National Coalition of People with Psychiatric Histories Mourns the Death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

~ DBSA: Blueprint for Hope

~ 'Mad’ men and women embrace their mental health issues

~ An interview with Dr. Frank Shelp

~ HOW HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM WILL BENEFIT GEORGIA

~ United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

~ GSU Law Olmstead Symposium

~ Soteria-Alaska Opens With Two Residents

~ ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADA 2009

~ GLBTQI Mental Health: Recommendations for Policies and Services

~ Recommendations on Issues of Access to and Inclusion in Behavioral Health Services for GLBTQI Consumers

~ HR 3200 and SAMHSA

~ UPenn National Survey Results of Certified Peer Specialists (pdf)

~ Mental Health, Substance Use Coverage in Health Reform

~ Voucher Travel Assistance Program Wants You

~ BHDD Office of Legislative Affairs & Constituent Services

~ Norman appointed mental health ombudsman

~ PERMES FY 2008 Results (xls)

~ Hoopla, and Disappointment, in Schizophrenia Research

~ How therapists can help clients rely less on medications (doc)

~ Photography - Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons

~ Disability Remains Top Basis for Housing Discrimination Complaints

~ Today Show video: The City of Lost Graves

~ Today Show article: "He adds names to lost graves"

~ Mike Skinner: Striking a Chord (pdf)

~ A Farewell Letter from Gwen Skinner

~ Augusta CPS in the news. Watch video here!

~ Video: Conversations at the Carter Center

~ Suicide Prevention and the Role of the Social Determinants of Health

~ Governor Signs Legislation to Restructure the Department of Human Resources

~ Promoting Community Integration Through Leisure & Recreational Activities (pdf)

~ Indicator species — By Steven Morgan

~ Gail Hornstein: Who owns the mind?

~ Listening to Madness

~ The Need for a Strong SAMHSA

~ Disability Law Handbook

~ Cultural perceptions of mental health affect treatment

~ A Hidden Shame: Death in Georgia's Mental Hospitals

A series of articles from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution

~ GCAL among top 50 government innovations

~ SSA’s Hiring Plans for 2009: Linking Candidates with Disabilities to SSA Jobs

~ NAMI Grading the States 2009

~ Ask Your Legislator Where They Stand on Mental Health in Health Reform

~ House Bill 228

~ Getting Through Tough Economic Times

~ How to Maintain Your Mental Health In Tough Economic Times

~ I talk back to the voices in my head

~ Treating schizophrenia without drugs? There's good evidence for it

~ A talk with Judi Chamberlin

~ Set Yourself Free - Letting Go of Perfection

~ Hundreds Rally for Disability Rights

~ A NEW LIFE: Olmstead Strategic Plan

~ Reconsidering Restoration of Supported Employment Funding Makes Sense

~ By Any Means Necessary? By No Means Necessary

~ State of Georgia Settlement Agreement with DOJ (pdf)

~ Mental Health Service Delivery Commission Final Report (pdf)

~ Commission Final Report Appendix B (pdf)

~ DHR: Final Blueprint for a New Mental Health System (ppt)

~ GMHCN Statement at DHR Budget Hearing

~ Mental illness alone is no trigger for violence

~ Comorbidity:Addiction and Other Mental Illnesses

~ Research questions efficacy of forcing psychiatric patients to take drugs

~ 2009 SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGES (pdf)

~ Wellness and Recovery - The Vision and the Pledge (pdf)

~ Minnesota man fights forced electroconvulsive therapy

~ Developing A Recovery And Wellness Lifestyle

~ Tragedies In Psychiatric Hospitals Prompt

Call For Peer Recovery, Wellness Centers

~ Expert on mental illness delivers message of hope

~ Labeling us disorderly

~ Connect and Include: (pdf)

an exploratory study of social inclusion and mental health

~ This story of mental illness -- and recovery -- is still being told

~ Creative Maladjustment and Learned Helplessness

~ Infinite Mind - "Dying Before Our Eyes"

~ Mental Health and Addiction Parity Enacted

~ Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008

~ Mental Health Consumer-Managed Alternative to

Civil Commitment for Acute Psychiatric Crisis (pdf)

~ DHR Budget Reduction Proposal

~ Governor Perdue releases reorganization plan for DHR

~ Healing Voices

~ Tearing Down To Rebuild - Rethinking Complaining

~ The Soteria Paradigm (pdf)

~ Crisis Residential Facilities Healthier Than Psychiatric Hospitals?

~ Governor Perdue Announces Olmstead Agreement Signed

~ Mental Health in the Workplace:A Bottom Line Issue (pdf)

~ In The Driver’s Seat: A Guide to Self-Directed Mental Health Care

~ People First Language: Dignity, Not Semantics

~ The Other Side of Mental Health Science by Steven Morgan (pdf)

~ CRIPA Investigation of the Georgia Regional Hospital in Atlanta (pdf 3.6 MB)

~ Sonny Perdue's MH Service Delivery Commission Progress Report (doc)

~ Overcoming the Impossible

~ National Wellness Summit for People with Mental Illness

~ ‘Mad Pride’ Fights a Stigma

~ Interview with Director of the Carter Center

~ Inclusive Livable Communities for People with Psychiatric Disabilities

Judi Chamberlin and Dr. Dan Fisher

~ House approves mental health bill

~ Mentally ill die 25 years earlier, on average

~ Rethinking the Potential of the Brain in Major Psychiatric Disorders

by Steven Morgan

~ Consumer Input Reports

~ Psychiatric Advance Directives: Controversies and Benefits

From the Harvard Mental Health Letter

~ Making Advance Directives Work for You

~ The Legacy of Peer Support by Patricia E. Deegan PhD

~ The Latest, Greatest Treatments for PTSD

~ Experts Convene for a Forensic Peer Specialist Workgroup

~ Justice for people with mental illness in Georgia (pdf)

~ Peer Support During and After a Disaster: Lessons Learned in the past 10 Years (pdf)

~ Mental patients find understanding in therapy led by peers

~ Black River Wellness Program (pdf)

~ USPRA Reaffirms Its Opposition to Involuntary Outpatient Commitment

~ Violence and Mental Illness: The Facts

~ SAMHSA: Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care

~ Cruel and sadly usual: Prisons shouldn’t be mental wards

~ Tips for Reducing Stress in Your Life

by Mary Calvagna, MS

~ Mental health consumers driving Georgia policy

by Gwen Skinner

~ Move toward privatization leaves some community service boards reeling

~ State reps fail to provide solutions to county's mental health needs

~ Caring for Patients’ Graves Helps Hospitals Reconcile With Living

~ New Coalition Launches Education Campaign To Counter Misconceptions About Depression

~ B J Walker's Letter to the Editor

~ Putting Georgia Politics on the Couch

~ State Works With Mental Health Consumers

Swainsboro newspaper article, August 4, 2006

~ National Professional Organization of People in Recovery

from Psychiatric Disabilities Is Created

~ ADA CELEBRATES 16 YEARS

~ Grading the States

~ Creating Successful Practitioner-Consumer Alliances

Video (featuring Larry Fricks)

~ Erasing stigma key to mental treatment

By Rosalynn Carter

~ Mental Health Coverage Affordable, Study Finds

~ Mental Illness and Stigma: Coping with the Ridicule

~ Why Advance Directives for Mental Health Care?

~ Articles by Stan Popovich

A Christian Approach to Managing Depression

~ North Carolina's "Mental Heath Advance Directive"

~ Debate on Forced Medication

~ On-the-job Therapy

~ "Let's Take a New Look at Mental Health Services"

by Commissioner B.J. Walker

~ Alaskan Tackles Mental Health Care Reform

~ The Infinite Mind Presents "An Educated Consumer"

~ Medicare Drug Plan Cost Estimator

~ Medicaid is a Social Contract with America

Sen. Jay Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.)

~ Stigma

Randy Tucker, Pipeline Editor

~ Relationships Can Heal

by Patricia Deegan

~ Roadmap for Federal Action on America’s Mental Health Crisis

~ Schizophrenia More Common in West

~ A Microcosm of Mental Health Challenges for African Americans

~ Medical College of Georgia Partners with the GA Certified Peer Specialist Project

~ FDA Website Warns of Drug Risks

~ Georgia's Behavioral Health System is Changing

From MHDDAD: Effective July 1, 2005

~ Transforming Behavioral Health Care to Self-Direction

~ Gap Analysis Survey Report

From APS Healthcare

~ Seclusion & Restraint

Randy Tucker, Pipeline Editor

~ Shrink Mental Hospitals, Move Funds to Communities

~ FDA Website Warns of Drug Risks

~ Saving Your Own Life

By Ellen Liversidge

~ DHR Informs Consumers of their Rights Under Georgia's Living Will Law

~ DBSA Support Group in Loganville

~ Consumer-Run Mental Health Organizations Receive Boost

NMHA’s Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center Awards Grants

~ Pennsylvanians Can Now Prepare Advance Mental Health Directives

~ Self-Determination Tools and Resources

~ "ADVANCED DIRECTIVES" ACT AS WILL

New Jersey bill gives early say in mental care

~ An Empowerment Model of Recovery From Severe Mental Illness

An Expert Interview With Daniel B. Fisher, MD, PhD

~ Germany About to Make Advance Directives Binding by Law!

~ Trapped Inside Georgia’s Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Creative Loafing, December 2004

~ Inside Outside: Building a Meaningful Life After the Hospital

Free Video from Patricia Deegan

~ Moving from Coercion to Collaboration in Mental Health Services

New Publication Available!

~ Advance Psychiatric Directives

Randy Tucker, Pipeline Editor

~ Evidence-based Practices in Peer Support and Peer-Provided Services

From the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal

~ "I Firmly Believe That Everyone Can Recover" - Vera Sepe's Story

Atlanta Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation