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Bazelon Center Mental Health Policy Reporter
Welcome
to the Bazelon Center Mental Health
Policy Reporter. Available exclusively online and to
our email subscribers, the Reporter supplements the Bazelon
Center’s Action Alerts by providing a periodic bulletin on
significant policy developments that affect people with mental
illnesses.
HHS Makes $75 Million Available to States to Expand Health Insurance Coverage
Congressional Briefing n People with Serious Mental Illnesses in Jails
All eyes are currently on the Senate and how its Judiciary Committee will review President Obama’s felicitous nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. See the Bazelon Center’s initial response and an analysis of her record in disability cases, at http://www.bazelon.org./issues/disabilityrights/sotomayor5-09.pdf. Meanwhile, Congress is at work to improve prospects for the nation’s schoolchildren—challenging seclusion and restraint and instead encouraging the use of positive behavioral support and the expansion of mental health services in schools—and to expand access to healthcare and housing for people with mental illnesses and other disabilities.
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