A blogger somewhere in EBD Blog’s neighborhood who is identified as “Hymes” maintains a site entitled Charlottesville Prejudice Watch. CPW appears to focus on psychiatric disability issues, some with a personal spin and others with a broader perspective. Although there are entries relevant to children and youth (see one about Whisper Ridge), CPW does not appear to have a specific interest in children and youth nor in schooling, but some of the issues covered there may be of importance to readers of this source, so I’m noting it here.
Here is a link to the blog itself and, following that, links to the topics that Hymes covers:
- Charlottesville
- civil rights
- Commission on Mental Health Law Reform
- disability
- Disgruntled Patient Study
- DMHMRSAS
- eugenics
- Exploiting Tragedy for political purposes
- Forensic
- hate speech
- heterosexism
- Human Rights in the MH System
- injuries and illnesses in the psychiatric sytem
- Kidney
- legislation
- LHANA
- Prejudice
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- racism
- Sally Satel
- Scapegoating
- Shootings
- state hospitals
- Treatment Advocacy Center
- Uncategorized
- Values
- Virginia
- Whisper Ridge
- Wiki on deaths
- zyprexakills
Thanks for linking to my blog. I’m Alison Hymes, thus the “Hymes” :), I’m Secretary of Virginia’s Mental Health Planning Council, member of the Advisory Committee for Region Ten’s Wellness Recovery Center (Crisis Stabilization for adults), member of the Taskforce on CIT for Charlottesville/Albemarle and member of the Taskforce on Committment of the Virginia Chief Justice’s Commission on Mental Health Law Reform. I don’t focus on children in the main although I am of course concerned about protecting children from abuse in the MH system as well as adults. If readers have concerns about MH in Virginia relevant to the Planning Council which oversees the federal block grant or in regards to the Commitment Taskforce, I am always interested in hearing from folks. I can be reached at AlisonHymes@spamex.com