http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:36:27 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TreatmentAdvocacyCenter/Blog/~3/2FiVDkxMabQ/index.php Thirty years ago, John Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan in an attempt to impress actress Jodi Foster, with whom he was obsessed. Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:13:42 +0100 http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1748&Itemid=97 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TreatmentAdvocacyCenter/Blog/~3/FsTymHbTTnM/index.php Our website is undergoing its first makeover in nearly three years! With its re-launch before the end of the month, the site will introduce a new user-friendly public library, a new video library, and other features for anyone in search of authoritative, data-based information about untreated severe mental illness, its consequences and its solutions. Meanwhile, please come be our friend! Our new Treatment Advocacy Center page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Treatment-Advocacy-Center/209187239098381) will bring you news and comment from the only nonprofit dedicated to eliminating barrers to treatment for people with severe mental illness. Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:32:38 +0100 http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1747&Itemid=247 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TreatmentAdvocacyCenter/Blog/~3/ACxnp-zPov0/index.php Andrew Downs, 20, says he ran out of medication for his mental illness three days before he allegedly shot and killed two sisters and beat a third man on the central coast of California. Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:36:32 +0100 http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1746&Itemid=97 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TreatmentAdvocacyCenter/Blog/~3/K9HJmWdjUBw/index.php Faced with an undeniable need to rein in Medicaid costs, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently appointed a “Medicaid Redesign Team” and has incorporated its recommendations into his proposed state budget. Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:40:49 +0100 http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1745&Itemid=97 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TreatmentAdvocacyCenter/Blog/~3/Y0Ck0RT_Gnw/index.php Half the states in the U.S. reduced their state hospital beds between 2009 and 2011. Alaska cut mental health spending 35% between 2009 and 2011. South Carolina, Arizona and Wisconsin cut it between 22 and 23%. California served 130,000 fewer people through its state mental health agency between 2007 and 2009. No region has been spared from deep treatment cuts. And things are about to get worse. Lawmakers need to hear that, in this environment of constraints, the case for implementing the proven and cost-effective alternative of assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) (http://treatment.nonprofitsoapbox.com///index.php?option=com_content task=view id=39 Itemid=68) for severe mental illness only grows stronger. To get started - READ State Mental Health Cuts: A National Crisis (http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/State_Advocacy/State_Budget_Cuts_Report/NAMIStateBudgetCrisis2011.pdf), the devastating new state-by-state report from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). FIND more information about how cuts are hurting treatment for mental illness in “Despite Tucson Shooting and Rising Needs, Mental Health Given Low Budget Priority (http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/3006/)” from the Center for Public Integrity. LEARN about how the crisis creates opportunity for advocates in the 30-Minute Advocacy (http://treatment.nonprofitsoapbox.com///index.php?option=com_content task=view id=1656 Itemid=274). For more news and reports from the Treatment Advocacy Center, click on any of the links below. Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:47:47 +0100 http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1744&Itemid=247