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2008

• Court Asked to Order Effective Community Mental Health Services for California Foster Children (1/11/08)

2007

• Jailing of Runaway Foster Youth Without Attention to Mental Health Needs Overruled (12/20/07)
• New Agreement Mandates Sweeping Changes in D.C. Special Education (12/13/07)
• Expert Panel Decries DCPS Failures (2/13/2007)

2006

• Court Sets Three-Year Extension of Deadline for Reform of Arizona Mental Health System for Children (11/21/06)
• Court Approves Agreement in DC Special Education Case (8/29/06)
• Report Points Way to School Success for Children with Mental Health Needs (6/7/06)
• Community Mental Health Services Ordered for Thousands of California Foster Children (3/14/06)

2005

• Court Orders Community Mental Health Services for Thousands of California Foster Children (3/14/05)
• Fact sheets on 57 federal programs to address needs of youth with serious mental health conditions (11/09/05)
• Court Asked to End California’s Denial of Services to Foster Children (10/31/05)
• Declarations in Support of Katie A. Plaintiffs (10/27/05)
• Unregulated Residential Treatment Facilities Exploit Children and Families (10/18/05)
• Expert Declaration by Chris Koyanagi in Katie A. Case On Wraparound Services and Therapeutic Foster Care for Children with Mental Health Needs. (9/2/05)
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• Alert: Proposed Federal Regulations Endanger Students with Disabilities (8/30/05)
• Congressional Briefings Call for Early Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Children’s Mental Disorders (5/11/05)
• May 11 Congressional Briefings on Children's Mental Health by the Campaign for Mental Health Reform
  • Information on the House Briefing
• Information on the Senate Briefing
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: A Chilly Reception (2/4/05)
• California Kids with Mental Illness Warehoused in Juvenile Detention (1/24/05)

2004

• Proposed Rule Threatens Services in DC (10/7/04)
• Senate Passes Suicide Prevention Bill (7/9/04)
• Thousands of Children with Mental Illness Warehoused in Juvenile Detention Centers Awaiting Mental Health Services (7/7/04)
• Testimony by Tammy Seltzer, Bazelon Center Senior Staff Attorney before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee (7/7/04)
• More than 130 State and National Advocacy Groups to Call on Congress to Address Children's Mental Health Crisis (7/6/04)
• New Survey Examines Link Between Gaps in Mental Healthcare and Juvenile Detention (7/2/04)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: Senate Passes Family Opportunity Act (5/6/04)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: Senate Prepares for IDEA Debate (5/6/04)
• National Expert Calls for Children’s Mental Health Reform in Ohio (4/27/04)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: Youth Suicide Bill Introduced (3/24/04)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: Medicaid Waiver Can Help States Serve Children (2/23/04)

2003

• Mental Health Advocates Honor Maine Senator (12/02/03)
• Advocates Call for Better Reporting on J.K. Reforms (11/24/03)
• Bazelon Center Mental Health Policy Reporter: Children’s Mental Health Bill Gathers Steam (11/20/03)
• Bazelon Center Statement on The Keeping Families Together Act (10/2/03)
• Motion Filed to Settle DC Special Education Lawsuit (9/5/03)
• New Report Describes Strategic Use of Federal Entitlements For Children's Access to Mental Health Services (8/27/03)
• New Issue Brief: Mix and Match—Using Federal Programs to Support Interagency Systems of Care for Children with Mental Health Care Needs (7/03)
• Staff Attorney Tammy Seltzer Testifies on Custody Relinquishment before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (7/15/03)
• Report: Medicaid Proposals Pose Threat to Mental Health Safety Net (6/6/03)
• Schools Can Reduce Problem Behavior by Students with Disabilities Through Effective Interventions (5/16/03)
• Children’s Mental Health, Substance Abuse Issues Not Identified (5/1/03)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: New Studies Find Children With Disabilities at Risk (5/9/03)
• House Passes Special Education Bill (4/30/03)
• Parents Give Up Custody of Children for Mental Health Services, Says New Government Report (4/21/03)
• Suit Against Nation's Largest Child Welfare System Settled with Commitment to Reform (3/17/03)
• Bazelon Center Mental Health Policy Reporter: Lawmakers to Consider Big IDEA Changes (3/12/03)
• Bazelon Center Statement on President Bush's Medicaid Reform Proposal (2/24/03)
• Parents: New York Children’s Mental Health System Fails Kids; Children Lack Access to Needed Services, Say Families (2/11/03)
• Arizona Governor Boosts JK Reforms; Napolitano announces expansion of children’s mental health services pilot program (1/31/03)

2002

• States Failing to Meet Children's Mental Health Needs, Says New Bazelon Center Report (11/22/02)
• House Proposals Would Fail Families Seeking Mental Health Services (10/09/02)
• Advocacy Group Presses for Congressional Action for Children with Mental Disabilities Bazelon Center Tells Lawmakers "Don't Blow It" (9/30/02)
• Public Interest Groups and National Law Firm File Suit Against Nation's Largest Child Welfare System (7/18/02)

2001

• Listen to a National Public Radio piece broadcast on July 5, 2001
• Harm To Children Seen in Delay of Standards for Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Psychiatric Centers (3/21/01)
• Settlement of Arizona case includes principles for a reformed child mental health system. (3/20/01)
• HCFA Reinstates Mental Health in New Mexico Medicaid Waiver (2/22/01)

2000

• Advocates Praise Unprecedented Removal of Federal Support for Mental Health in New Mexico Managed Care Program (10/20/00)
• As Federal Teams Review New Mexico's Medicaid Mental Health Care, New Data Show "Snapshot of Failure"
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• Experts’ Report Is “Damning Indictment” of Managed Mental Health Care for Arizona Children (7/12/00)
• Federal Medicaid Agency Asked to Investigate Data on Salud! Mental Health Services (6/28/00)
• New Data Bolster Request to Federal Medicaid Agency Not to Renew New Mexico’s Managed Behavioral Care Program (4/24/00)
• New Mexico Medicaid Managed Behavioral Health Care Called so Deficient It Should Not Be Renewed (3/30/00)
• Even With Health Insurance, Many Parents Have to Give up Custody to Get Mental Health Care for Their Child (3/24/00)