Planning for NAMI California Conference 2008 Is Underway
Mark Your Calendar For August 22 & 23
Planning is in progress once again for the annual NAMI California conference. This year's theme is: Celebrating Recovery! Those that are interested in proposing specific workshops should download and complete the following workshop form and submit it before May 2, 2008. You can also register by downloading the the Registration form.... |  |
Depression On The Rise Among Hispanic Women
Hispanic female teens in the United States were the group most likely to seriously contemplate suicide
Depression and other mental troubles are on the rise among Latin American women immigrants to the United States, as they battle economic woes and try to bridge the cultural gap, experts say.... | |
Considering Parity
Tallying Mental Illness Costs
It's a debate with which the U.S. workplace has yet to come to grips: should employees' mental and physical health be considered equal in importance?... | |
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Improving the mental health of Asian Americans
Asian Americans suffer a disproportionate burden of disability from mental illness. Yet compared to whites they have less access to mental health services, receive poorer quality mental health care, and are under-represented in mental health research.1 The September 2002 issue of the Western Journal of Medicine (www.ewjm.com) looked at ways of improving the mental health care of this fast growing minority group.... | |
Big Cuts For Yolo Mental Health
The Yolo County ADMHS has consistently lost money for the last four years to the tune of about $5 million, which the county has subsidized through its general fund.... | |
Little To Celebrate In Tulare County
Tulare County Tuesday unveiled two mobile mental-health units that will travel to underserved areas of the county delivering mental health services.... | |
Massive Waits On Care
Fort Drum, a bleak U.S. Army base in upstate New York, is a test case for how the military is handling a looming mental health crisis.... | |
Program Marks New Direction In Schizophrenia Treatment
Isolating himself in his dorm room at the nearby college he attended in Portland, Maine, periodically smoking pot to ease his anxiety and possessed at times of vague, non-specific ideas of reference—"Max" (not his real name) was not precisely what anyone would automatically term "psychotic."... | |
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