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		<title>Virginia mental health needs</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2012/01/virginia-mental-health-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a statement entitled &#8220;A proposal that would assist troubled youths in Virginia&#8221; the Washington Post editorial board lent its support to efforts to fund mental health services for children and youth. The editorial, published 11 January 2012, recounted a history of rueful cost cutting and encouraging advocacy in my commonwealth. A YEAR AGO, Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia campaign promotes action agenda</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2011/06/virginia-campaign-promotes-action-agenda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Campaign for Children&#8217;s Mental Health outlined an agenda for improving mental health policy for children and youths in the US commonwealth of Virginia on 14 June 2011. The &#8220;Action Agenda&#8221; expresses the need for Govenor Bob McDonnell to exert leadership in three policy areas so that the problems of 100,000 minors with mental health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Congressional Mental Health Caucus</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2011/01/the-congressional-mental-health-caucus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, mental health has been in the US news of late. I&#8217;m reminded that in the US legislature there is the Congressional Mental Health Caucus, which takes as its goals reducing negativism and stigma, aiding efforts to access mental health services, improving work-related productivity, and protecting veterans who have mental health problems. Although the caucus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More props for Mr. Artest</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/12/more-props-for-mr-artest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Artest&#8217;s PSA for LA Mental Health Professional basketball player Ron Artest, who admits that he experienced difficulties as a youth and an adult, has been promoting mental health awareness over the past few years. Recently I posted a note acknowledging some of his efforts, and today I call attention to another of them. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching about mental health</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/11/teaching-about-mental-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers who are concerned about helping students understand mental health issues have at least one sensible places where they can go for teaching resources: Breaking the Silence, a Web resource offered by a local National Alliance on Mental Illness group. BTS, as it calls itself, provides a combination of neighborhood (NY, US) and widely available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carter talks sense</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/04/carter-talks-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely point to posts on the Huffington Posts, but an entry by Liane Kupferberg Carter entitled &#8220;]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Campaign for Children’s Mental Health</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/12/virginia-campaign-for-children%e2%80%99s-mental-health/</link>
		<comments>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/12/virginia-campaign-for-children%e2%80%99s-mental-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://EBDBlog.com/?p=1060</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twelve key children’s services for community services boards specialized children’s emergency services; crisis stabilization; evaluations for Comprehensive Services Act services; psychiatric/medication; office-based mental health therapy; office-based substance abuse therapy; mental health case management; intellectual disabilities case management; substance abuse case management; home-based behavioral treatment and support for families; school-based day treatment; and local residential services. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Following Danny Watt&#8217;s story</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/07/following-danny-watts-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://EBDBlog.com/?p=878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Jackman&#8217;s article about Danny Watt to which I referred a few days ago (see this post) is generating a lot of discussion on the Post&#8217;s Web site. The comments on Mr. Jackman&#8217;s story are informative. For example, at least a half dozen mention having a family member with mental illness. Link to the comments. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media matters</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/07/media-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent posts about news coverage of mental illness (e.g., &#8220;Danny Watt&#8217;s Story&#8221; and &#8220;Jani Illustrates Troubles&#8220;) has had me thinking about how popular media portray these problems. Over on Psych Central, Margarita Tartakovsky has an article entitled &#8220;Media’s Damaging Depictions of Mental Illness&#8221; that I recommend to readers of EBD Blog. In addition to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danny Watt&#8217;s story</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/07/danny-watts-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The parents of Daniel Watt, a youth who had multiple problems, told the story of their son&#8217;s life and suicide. Tom Jackman of the Washington Post reported the story of Danny and his parents, helping explain some of the problems of addressing the needs of children with multiple diagnoses&#8212;co-morbid schizoaffective disorder and substance abuse, in [...]]]></description>
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