On Friday August 28, 2020 we were honored to be joined by special guests U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. (Louisiana) and Mr. Timothy Noonan, Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy at Office for Civil Rights (OCR), under Health and Human Services (HHS) for our Zoom Cast on “Making Sense of HIPAA”. Some viewers experienced technical difficulties […]
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Janet Hays, Teresa Pasquini, DJ Jaffe at Ohio Assisted Outpatient Treatment Symposium Oct. 2019 hosted by the Treatment Advocacy Center
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Healing Minds NOLA is thrilled to co-host this important event with U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy. If you register, please help us customize the presentation by completing our survey. TAKE THE SURVEY The presenters will be announced soon. Your responses will guide the conversation and there will be plenty of time for Q&A. We hope to
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Hot off the press! A spokesperson from the State Sheriffs Association announced today that all inmates with serious mental illnesses, regardless of evaluation and assessment, will be released tomorrow to mark the end of Mental Health Awareness Month. A statement in the notification said: “We agree with mental health advocacy organizations and individuals across the
Dear friends and colleagues, Families, judges, attorneys, law enforcement and providers are increasingly frustrated by barriers that impede their ability to provide loved-ones, clients, residents and patients adequate psychiatric treatment and care. Despite increased resources for mental health care, resources for people with untreated and under-treated serious mental illnesses (SMI) continue to atrophy due to decades long reductions in longterm intensive support programs and
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Governor Edwards needs to take advantage of federal incentives to increase psychiatric hospital and residential treatment bed capacity. Founder and director Janet Hays wrote about that in a letter published in The Advocate on April 15. Read the whole letter here.
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Healing Minds NOLA is honored to have been asked to participate at the 2020 Virtual SARDAA Conference. Archived videos from the day can be found here. We urge you to watch them all! Below is a transcription of opening comments prepared for the Criminal Justice Panel by our founder and director Janet Hays. “Hey everyone, I’m really honored
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On March 23rd, John Snook – Executive Director of the Treatment Advocacy Center, gave testimony to the Presidential Law Enforcement Commission on the criminalization of mental illness. John was a keynote speaker at our first annual conference last year. Archived here. Here’s how you too can weigh in:The President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of
We hope this message finds you safe and well as we work our way through the COVID-19 pandemic together. We encourage everyone to take this crisis seriously, to follow CDC recommendations for infection prevention and control, and to keep in mind that those living with severe mental illness may be disproportionately impacted. Our national partner, the
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