New Booklet Explains Voting Rights of People with Mental Disabilities (10/2/08)
Bazelon Center and Leadership 21 Release Student Guide (9/23/08)
Offers information on mental health resources for college and university students and explains their rights when seeking treatment.
Federal Court Approves Agreement to Create New Housing and Community
Services
(9/18/08) Mark Chambers’ dream “to be part of the world
outside” the
nursing home he’s
lived in for eight years will soon come true. Over the next five years, Chambers
and several hundred other residents of the Laguna Honda
Hospital in San Francisco will move from open wards (see photo) to
independent
apartments
linked
to
the
supportive services they need. Read more...
President Signs ADA Amendments Act (9/25/08)
Bazelon Center has high praise for bipartisan legislation reviving ADA protections.
Congress Overrides Veto; Medicare Mental Health Parity Becomes Law (7/15/08)
New
Agreement Mandates Sweeping Changes in
D.C. Special Education
Update: July 28, 2008--The Bazelon Center now posts breaking news about the Blackman/Jones lawsuit on a new listserv. For an invitation to the listserv, contact Lewis Bossing at (202) 467-5730 x116 or Blackman@bazelon.org
.December
13, 2007—District of Columbia officials announced
that the city will make sweeping changes in its special
education program to comply with a
new consent decree in a 10-year-old class action, Blackman & Jones v. District
of Columbia. When approved by the court, the decree
will require the school
system
to
address
the needs of hundreds of
students with mental or
physical disabilities who await services. Read
more...
Appeals
Court Favors Individual Determination of Voting Rights
for Disenfranchised Citizens with Mental Disabilities
August
23, 2007—The U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Eighth Circuit held that Missouri law allows
citizens who are under full guardianship to retain their
voting rights if they demonstrate a capacity to
vote. Read
more...
Way to Go: School Success for Children with Mental Health Care Needs
“Way to Go"—It
means praise for a child and a roadmap for policymakers and
is the title of a new Bazelon Center report that lays out a
new direction for child mental health systems linked to a new
movement in education. Read
more...
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