The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law


 

 

Mental Healthcare

Because we believe that people with mental disabilities are better served by a functioning mental health care system than they are by stop-gap measures and needless coercion, the Bazelon Center works on a wide array of issues to support access to voluntary services and promote empowerment of people with mental illnesses in their treatment decisions.

See our resources on involuntary commitment, self-directed care and updates on community-based services.

Cover images from the Bazelon Center publications Disintegrating Systems and A New Vision for Public Mental Health SystemsOur Vision

Two publications by the Bazelon Center highlight why we're fighting and what we're working for:

  • Disintegrating Systems: Excerpting state-based documents that illustrate the unraveling of public policy for meeting the needs of people with serious mental illnesses, this report is a call to action.
  • A New Vision of Public Mental Health: The Bazelon Center has set out to reshape the debate about mental health system reform by developing and disseminating a model law for adaptation by states and localities.

 

 

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  Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
1101 15th Street, NW, Suite 1212
Washington, DC 20005

Phone: 202-467-5730
Fax: 202-223-0409
Email: webmaster@bazelon.org

 
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
1101 15th Street, NW, Suite 1212
Washington, DC 20005

Phone: 202-467-5730
Fax: 202-223-0409
Email: webmaster@bazelon.org