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2005

• Happy Day (for now)! Medicaid Cuts Bounced Back to the House (12/21/05)
• Congressmen Join Disability Groups in Opposing Alito Nomination (12-14-05)
• National Disability Rights Groups Announce Opposition to Alito Nomination (12/13/05)
• Worksheet Eases Choice of Medicare Drug Plan (11/21/05)
• Choosing the Right Medicare Drug Plan (10/27/05)
• Court Asked to End California’s Denial of Services to Foster Children (10/31/05)
• Unregulated Residential Treatment Facilities Exploit Children and Families (10/18/05)
• Press Briefing on Unregulated Private Residential Treatment Facilities (10/13/05)
• Disability Rights Advocates Blast Pryor Vote (5/12/05)
• Congressional Briefings Call for Early Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Children’s Mental Disorders (5/11/05)
• The Bazelon Center’s Reaction to Passage of the Budget Resolution (4/29/05)
• House Medicaid Cuts Devastating for Americans with Mental Illnesses, Say Advocates (3/17/05)
• Bazelon Center Applauds Senate Rejection of “Irresponsible” Medicaid Cuts (3/17/05)
• Disability Rights Group Steamed Over Boyle Nomination (3/3/05)
• Keeping Families Together Act Re-Introduced (2/15/05)
• Budget Brings More Broken Promises (2/8/05)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: A Chilly Reception (2/4/05)
• Washington: Western State Hospital Discharging Patients to “Unsafe Places” (2/3/05)
• California Kids with Mental Illness Warehoused in Juvenile Detention (1/24/05)

2004

• Debt Collectors Won’t Seek Payment from Bankrupt Mental Health Provider’s Former Clients (11/10/04)
• Healthcare Advocates Criticize DC Medicaid Proposal (10/13/04)
• Lawmakers Pass Mental Health / Criminal Justice Bill (10/12/04)
• Legal Advocates Challenge Missouri Voter Practices (10/8/04)
• Veterans’ Affairs Opens Doors to Voter Registration, Education Efforts (8/23/04)
• New Report Promotes Integrated Care for People with Serious Mental Illnesses (8/3/04)
• Twenty-four Groups Launch Unprecedented, Simultaneous TV and Online Ads Exposing Radical Views of Administration Judicial Nominees (7/21/04)
• Campaign for Mental Health Reform Calls for Improved Performance and Outcome Measurements in Mental Health (7/20/04)
• Campaign for Mental Health Reform: Advocates Praise Senate Passage of 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)
• New Survey Examines Link Between Gaps in Mental Healthcare and Juvenile Detention (7/2/04)
• Campaign for Mental Health Reform: Advocates Praise Efforts to Address Criminalization of People with Mental Illnesses (6/22/04)
• Legal Advocate Cites Ongoing Segregation on Eve of Olmstead Anniversary (6/21/04)
• Supreme Court Decides Tennessee v. Lane and Jones, Upholds Civil Rights Protections for People with Disabilities (5/17/04)
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Statement on Senate Reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (5/13/04)
• National Expert Calls for Children’s Mental Health Reform in Ohio (4/27/04)
• Booklet Explains Recovery Of Federal Benefits by People with Disabilities on Release from Jail or Prison (3/12/04)
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Statement on Introduction of The Fairness Act of 2004 (2/11/04)
• Bazelon Center Statement on the President’s Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative (1/21/04)
• Bazelon Center Statement on Tennessee v. Lane and Jones (1/12/04)
• Supreme Court to Hear Key Disability Rights Case; Advocates Call for “Access to Justice” in Tennessee v. Lane and Jones (1/12/04)
• Events Highlight Key Supreme Court Case on Disability Rights (1/8/04)
• California Settlement Takes First Step Toward Olmstead Compliance (1/5/04)

2003

• Landmark Mental Disability Lawsuit Ends After 33 Years (12/15/03)
• Mental Health Advocates Honor Maine Senator (12/02/03)
• Advocates Call for Better Reporting on J.K. Reforms (11/24/03)
• Supreme Court to Review Americans with Disabilities Act; Ruling Could Shield States from Anti-Discrimination Suits (11/12/03)
• Florida Man Staves Off Eviction; AARP, Bazelon Center Hail Victory for Seniors and People with Disabilities (11/10/03)
• Campaign for Mental Health Reform Testifies Before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Subcommittee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (11/4/03)
• Advocates: Lack of Services Means More Jail Time for NY Parolees with Serious Mental Illnesses (10/21/03)
• Bazelon Center Statement on The Keeping Families Together Act (10/2/03)
• Eleventh Circuit Rules on Damage Claims (9/24/03)
• Kerry Releases Mental Health Policy Statement; Campaign for Mental Health Reform Statement to the Media (9/12/03)
• Mental Health Advocates’ Statement on Dean Mental Health Agenda (9/12/03)
• 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)
• Updated Information Available on The Housing Rights of People with Disabilities (8/27/03)
• Lawsuit Alleges Civil Rights Violations in Cook County Jail (8/12/03)
• Litigation Filed to Protect Privacy, Housing Rights of Older Tenants (8/7/03)
• 2nd Circuit Holds Vermont Durable Power of Attorney Law Discriminatory (8/6/03)
• U.S. Senate Confronts Criminalization of People with Mental Illness (7/30/03)
• President’s Commission Offers Prescription for Broken Mental Health System (7/22/03)
• Staff Attorney Tammy Seltzer Testifies on Custody Relinquishment before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (7/15/03)
• Mental Health Leaders Available for Interviews on President’s Commission Report (7/14/03)
• Supreme Court to Again Consider Title II Constitutionality (7/2/03)
• Lawsuit Seeks Community Integration of Thousands of New Yorkers with Mental Illnesses (7/1/03)
• Bazelon Center Statement on New York Adult Homes Litigation (7/1/03)
• 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)
• House Passes Special Education Bill; Bazelon Center: Discipline Provisions Threaten Access to Education (4/30/03)
• Parents Give Up Custody of Children for Mental Health Services, Says New Government Report (4/21/03)
• A Partnership Of America's Leading Health Organizations Issues "Blueprint Report" On Health Impacts Of Terrorism (4/18/03)
• Suit Against Nation's Largest Child Welfare System Settled with Commitment to Reform (3/17/03)
• Older People with Mental Illnesses Remain Unnecessarily Segregated in Nursing Homes, Institutional Settings (3/10/03)
• Mental Health Advocates Call for End to Insurance Discrimination (2/27/03)
• President Bush's Medicaid Reform Proposal: A Threat to Public Mental Health (2/24/03)
• Parents: New York Children’s Mental Health System Fails Kids (2/11/03)
• Rights, Recovery Stressed at Mental Health Commission Meeting (2/10/03)
• Court Decision Establishes Right to Services for People with Mental Disabilities in Nursing Homes (2/3/03)
• Arizona Governor Boosts JK Reforms (1/31/03)
• Victory for Inmates with Mental Illnesses (1/27/03)
• Groups Call for Grassroots Defense of Americans with Disabilities (1/22/03)
• Recommendations Presented to Mental Health Commission (1/15/03)

2002

• Court Decision Allows Bar Admission for Lawyer with History of Schizophrenia; Earlier Denial Constituted Discrimination, Say Advocates (12/13/02)
• States Failing to Meet Children’s Mental Health Needs ; New Report Details Policy Options for Increasing Access to Mental Health Services (11/22/02)
• Bazelon Center Presents Lost in the System: Community Integration on Trial (11/15/02)
• On 30th Anniversary, Bazelon Center Lauds MacArthur Support (11/14/02)
• President's Commission on Mental Health Releases Releases Interim Report; "It's past time the country got serious about solutions", says Bazelon Center (11/8/02)
• Bazelon Center Mourns the Loss of Senator Paul Wellstone (10/25/02)
• Mental Health Advocates Oppose City's Move to Recover Litigation Expenses from Murder Victim's Family (10/24/02)
• 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)
• Media Advisory: Rights Advocates Coalesce to Fight Supreme Court Rollback of Civil Rights (9/30/02)
• Bazelon Center Executive Director Testifies Before the Presidential Commission on Mental Health (7/18/02)
• Public Interest Groups and National Law Firm File Suit Against Nation's Largest Child Welfare System (7/18/02)
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Calls on States to Protect Consumer Rights: Healthcare cost controls, while needed, mustn't land on the backs of the poor, especially people with mental disabilities (7/01/02)
• Bazelon Center Statement on the Criminalization of People with Mental Illnesses (6/11/02)
• Bazelon Center Statement on Mental Health Parity Rally (6/6/02)
• More than 2,000 Rally in Support of mental Health Parity* (6/6/02)
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• Bazelon Center Statement on House TANF Reauthorization (5/16/02)
• Bazelon Center Applauds President's Focus on Mental Health (4/29/02)

2001

• Report Illustrates Disintegration of States' Mental Health Systems (12/21/01)
• Virginia Agress to Issue Rules Ensuring Access to Community Services for People with Mental Retardation (9/4/01)
• New Data Bolster Request to Federal Medicaid Agency Not to Renew New Mexico’s Managed Behavioral Care Program (4/24/01)
• New Mexico Medicaid Managed Behavioral Health Care Called so Deficient It Should Not Be Renewed (3/30/01)
• Harm To Children Seen in Delay of Standards for Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Psychiatric Centers
  (3/21/01)
• Groundbreaking Reform of Managed Mental Health Care for Children Ends Federal Lawsuit in Arizona (3/20/01)
• Delay in Implementing Health Privacy Rules Would Harm Mental Health Consumers, Advocates Warn (3/20/01)
• HCFA Reinstates New Mexico's Mental Health Waiver (2/22/01)

2000

• A Preview of Mental Health Law and Policy After the 2000 Elections (12/1/00)
• Advocates Praise Unprecedented Removal of Federal Supprt 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" (9/5/00)
• 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)
• Report Analyzes Problems and Successes in States' Use of Managed Care for Public Mental Health Services (5/22/00)
• New Data Bolster Request to Federal Medicaid Agency Not to Renew New Mexico's Managed Behavioral Care
• Report Documents Need of Parents to Relinquish Custody of Children to Obtain Mental Health Services (3/24/00)
• Advocates Welcome Agreement to Name New "Transitional" Receiver for District's Mental Health System (3/1/00)
• Study Finds Inadequate Monitoring of Pharmacy Benefits by Medicaid Managed Care Programs (2/16/00)
• Landmark Mental Disability Suit Settled After 30 Years (1/21/00)

1999

• U.S. Supreme Court to Review Crucial Decision for Inclusion of People with Disabilities (3/18/99)
• Federal Jury Awards $5.4 Million in Damages for Solitary Confinement of Prisoner with Schizophrenia (3/10/99)