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For Senate President Spilka, mental health law culminates a lifelong story
The Metrowest Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBOSTON — Tuesday's signing ceremony for the state's new mental health law was more than the celebration of another legislative achievement for Senate President Karen Spilka. It was also affirmation ...
California voters narrowly approve Newsom’s mental health bond
Politico via Yahoo News· 3 months agoSACRAMENTO, California — California voters have agreed to rewrite the state’s decades-old mental...
Sen. Bucco criticizes NJ mental health law allowing longer involuntary stays in ERs
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSenate Republican leader Anthony M. Bucco raised concerns about the impact of recent legislation on...
California lawmakers approve key changes to landmark mental health law
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSenate Bill 43 expands the criteria for the detention, treatment and conservatorship to address the...
Newsom scolds counties over delays in mental health law: ‘You have a crisis out there’
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIf any year is looked back on as pivotal in California’s fight to curb mental illness, homelessness...
Thousands of Florida students struggling with mental health committed under Baker Act
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoFlorida had 5,077 incidents of students being involuntarily committed under a mental-health law...
45 counties, including Kern, to delay launch of major mental health law
Tribune via AOL· 6 months agoDec. 2—Nearly every county across California will share an unfortunate resolution in the coming year: They each will delay their launch of a new mental health law expected to change the face ...
Brandon’s parents: GW report shows need for more progress in military mental health
WAVY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The couple whose son died by suicide and inspired a mental health law say a...
Lessard at 50: Can Milwaukee break its addiction to forced psychiatric care?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn November 1971, when West Allis schoolteacher Alberta Lessard found herself facing a lifelong...
Nottingham triple killer had history of mental health problems, court told
Press Association News via AOL· 4 months agoThe killer of university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and school caretaker Ian...