Advocacy Action Alerts
This Advocacy Action Alerts section has been created in hopes of giving focus to specific mental health care situations that may require advocacy intervention to effect change. The cases that appear here will have been chosen because they have been shown to have a longterm negative, sometimes possibly even life-endangering, backlash on persons with mental illness.
Cases that will initially have come to light because of reported instances of deaths, suicides (see also NCHS), and psychiatric survivors will always be of special interest to this website's creator. Nothing short of responsible, accountable mental health care will ever be deemed acceptable. Anything less is unconsciable.
The resources linked to within will be providing the actual detailed information on each case. These resources will be long-standing entities such as the media (ie: newspapers, television, radio) and governmental organizations.
For further clarification of the cases that will eventually be represented here, interested parties should seek comment from those interviewed within the included resources. It is also suggested that advocates research any and all published investigative-type reports that should be available through area-specific open records acts.
In need of immediate advocacy..
The following are instances in which advocates are seeking continued interest, advocacy, and action..
- Mental Health Screening: Included news stories give some insight into this developing issue.
- Georgia (ongoing): Highland Rivers Community Service Board (merger of Georgia Highlands and Three Rivers CSBs). The articles referenced in the above link give the basics regarding what has been disclosed since early 2003.
- National - A request for action from NAMI (2004-04-08): Insurance parity issue currently bouncing around the US Senate.. Read their update on insurance parity to see what they suggest as the best actions to take right now..
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