tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617548279279543282024-03-13T20:15:26.346-07:00change mental health laws in KentuckychangeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.comBlogger237125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-22389813511369232312018-12-07T17:07:00.002-08:002018-12-07T17:08:38.543-08:00If Kentucky had used its laws, my schizophrenic brother might be alive
Written by Heather Durham, Opinion contributor
Published
7:44 a.m. ET Dec. 7, 2018 | Updated 7:44 a.m. ET Dec. 7, 2018
My brother Skyler was a charismatic, loving,
genuine person.
He was a star athlete and a class clown and
really smart when he wanted to be. People were drawn to him, and he could make
anyone laugh.
However, in his teens, Skyler was changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-21421466981446536262017-06-11T15:00:00.001-07:002017-06-14T11:46:12.364-07:00Open Letter to NAMI’s Board president: Address the needs of the sickest and NAMI’s tent will have room for ALL!
Dear
Steve Pitman,
Last
week I wrote a heart felt letter to all the local and state NAMI leaders in the
two states I’ve been a member of since 2002.
In
my letter I said: I am writing to respectfully encourage your local and state
board to support the NAMI, (national) board candidates who will represent the
needs of our families and loved ones who are living with serious brain changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-53761494851245789392017-06-11T12:47:00.002-07:002017-06-11T12:55:16.483-07:00Another Response RE: NAMI's BIG Tent vs Small Tent by Jeffery L. Hayden, Ph.D.
This is another well written response regarding NAMI's "big tent" vs "small tent" controversy
that began when NAMI's President, Steve Pitman, issued a letter to state and
local NAMI organizations describing his view of the past, current and the
future state of NAMI.
I am sharing Jeffery's response to Pete Earley, with his permission as other national Mental Illness changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-11212877631765008002017-06-07T13:43:00.001-07:002017-06-07T13:48:54.657-07:00DJ Jaffe's Open Letter to NAMI Affiliates and State Organizations About Serious Mental Illness
Mr. Steve Pittman
President
National Alliance on Mental Illness
3803 N Fairfax Dr., Suite 100
Arlington, VA 22203
June 3, 2017
Dear Steve:
Hope all is well. Someone was kind enough to share with me, the letter you sent to all affiliates,
concerning the upcoming NAMI Board elections. In your letter, you essentially argued that the
National Alliance on Mental Illness should not focus its changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-76386721291301403172017-06-07T13:05:00.004-07:002017-06-07T13:16:45.242-07:00URGENT! CALL TO ACTION-Vote for the NAMI Board to Focus on Serious Mental Illness
Teresa Pasquini
El Sobrante, CA
JUN 3, 2017 — Dear Supporters,
First, it is critical that all signers of this petition, “educate, empower and engage” your local affiliate leaders in the upcoming NAMI Board of Directors election issues. There are critical decisions at stake and we all have to make our voices heard for the voiceless.
As I stated in my changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-80130159192522439732017-04-10T23:12:00.004-07:002017-04-10T23:16:22.412-07:00Lawmakers override Bevin's veto of mental health law
Deborah Yetter and Morgan Watkins , The Courier-JournalPublished 11:59 a.m. ET March 29, 2017 | Updated 8:44 p.m. ET March 29, 2017
Time to retire this blog! At last, Tim's law is the law in Kentucky!(Photo: By Michael Clevenger, C-J) FRANKFORT, Ky.—The General Assembly on Wednesday overturned Gov. Matt Bevin's veto of a mental health law known as Tim's Law — and also overrode Bevin vetoes of changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-25119182869679005442017-03-28T20:53:00.001-07:002017-03-28T20:57:36.642-07:00Gov. ignores guardianship crisis with veto
John Snook, Treatment Advocacy Center 6:32 p.m. ET March 28, 2017
Governor Matt Bevin announced his veto of Tim’s Law, a commonsense bill passed nearly unanimously by the legislature to provide needed care for the most severely mentally ill. Unfortunately, the veto evidences both a misunderstanding of both the nature of the bill and the public health crisis it would address.The veto changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-82192400554369810592017-03-28T20:47:00.002-07:002017-03-28T20:47:43.721-07:00Legislature should override Bevin’s veto of mental health bill
The late Tim Morton with his mother Faye Morton who told the Associated Press, “I want so much for (Tim’s) life to have a meaning more than this story.” Change Mental Health Laws in Kentucky
Lawmakers should override Gov. Matt Bevin’s veto of a bill allowing judges to order outpatient treatment for mental illness.
This humane option is available in almost every state and has long been changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-31540663724334371102017-03-28T19:28:00.002-07:002017-03-28T19:58:22.722-07:00Join the MARCH on Wednesday to SAVE Tim's Law - Save Lives - SAVE SB 91
Keep up the calls to Senate and House Leadership – Call the Legislative Message Line again 1-800-372-7181 – and leave your message: “Override the Governor’s veto of Tim’s Law – SB 91 – and make it law to save lives!”
PLEASE come to Frankfort on Wednesday (3/29) to show Senators that we are really serious about getting this override done! Wear RED, changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-14201135654793918722017-03-27T21:32:00.003-07:002017-03-27T21:34:12.521-07:00Governor Bevin vetoed Tim's Law, even though it passed in the Senate 34-3, and the House passed it 95-0!!
Breaking news from
KY's Advocacy Action Network
ACTION ALERT!! TIM’S LAW HAS BEEN VETOED!!
-----------------------------
The Governor has vetoed SB 91 – Tim’s Law – stating that it is a “dangerous precedent that would threaten the liberty of Kentucky’s citizens.”
But this legislation is not about taking away individuals' liberties. It is about protecting those changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-38290985191701024872017-03-15T15:05:00.001-07:002017-03-16T09:36:33.609-07:00Tim’s Law (AOT BILL SB 91) passes in KentuckyI write with great appreciation today as a tribute to "Tim Morton" and his family and to all the Kentucky agencies, family members, individuals with mental illnesses and professionals who lobbied together to gain action on the passing of “Tim’s law” on March 14, 2017.
Faye Morton and I started a journey over 7 years ago to hopefully “wake up” Kentucky, regarding the most seriously ill who lackedchangeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com107tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-9526759025171830082017-03-02T13:35:00.002-08:002017-03-20T21:13:08.812-07:00We need your help to get SB 91 Tim’s Law pushed to passage!
Copied from: Advocacy Action Network
TO KMHC Members and Supporters –
We need your help to get Tim’s Law pushed to passage!
SB 91 has been assigned to the House Judiciary Committee (and not the Health and Family Services Committee), so we need to get the phones ringing NOW and OFTEN before we run out of time!!
Please call 1-800-372-7181 and ask for your changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-5897416589273936692017-01-23T13:59:00.002-08:002017-01-23T23:31:22.942-08:00Activists Say NAMI Is Ignoring The Sickest Who Refuse Treatment and NAMI's Response
On Jan 19, 2016 my friend and hero, Pete Earley circulated our letter to NAMI on his national blog. Thanks to Pete for sharing our questions that many are afraid to ask. GG
BY PETE EARLEY
Haunting video called The Voices of 10 Million posted at Change.org by group petitioning NAMI to “stop shunning our families and our loved ones.”
(1-19-17) Several long-time mentalchangeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-35371819702058601342017-01-17T11:48:00.002-08:002017-01-17T11:54:13.505-08:00My open Letter to NAMI in asking support in #ShatteringSilence
Dear NAMI and NAMI supporters.
As a dedicated NAMI member/volunteer for over 15-years, I have written many letters to NAMI (national) requesting they not forget the 4%, (those too ill to voluntarily advocate for themselves). However, in NAMI’s recent newsletter highlighting the celebration of the passage of the 21st Century Cures ACT, there was no mention of AOT.
We need our national voice changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-24931669707725870122016-12-13T11:35:00.000-08:002016-12-13T23:45:05.554-08:00Proposed Kentucky bill could help keep mentally ill out of hospitals while receiving assisted outpatient treatment
Deborah Highland
Dec 3, 2016
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(Dec. 7, 2016, by Treatment Advocacy Center)
Long overdue and years in the making, an
overwhelming bi-partisan majority of Congress finally passed monumental
legislation, known as the 21st Century Cures Act which includes the much needed "Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act" ... to overhaul the country’s fractured mental health system.
The legislation will changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-22303209569187174632016-12-12T16:20:00.000-08:002016-12-12T16:20:03.836-08:00
I wrote this in September 2016, as a response to a friend's blog post. It is a harsh reflection into my soul, after experiencing Kentucky’s mental health system failures for the 20th time in less than 10 years.
ANOSOGNOSIA -- #1 ENEMY by GG Burns
I echo every word you wrote, Dede. It seems that I have more friends of children who have suffered with a brain disease and are changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-24529967536706140022016-09-09T18:17:00.001-07:002016-09-09T18:17:58.660-07:00A Message from Congressman Tim Murphy & National Suicide Prevention Month
5 Things You Need to Know about Mental Health in America Let's get it straight: Q&A with Congressman Murphy Did you know? September is Suicide Awareness Month Coming up next...
Dear friends,
In July, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2646 , the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, with overwhelm bipartisan support. The final vote was 422-2. As changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-43341179321850802212016-06-15T11:28:00.002-07:002016-07-05T20:53:25.025-07:00H.R. 2646 passes from the Energy and Commerce Committee - 53 I's, NO O's
What a day for #Mentalheatlhreform! H.R. 2646 passes from the Energy and Commerce Committee on to house floor. Thanks to Treatment Advocacy Center, Mental Illness Policy.Org and Chairman Upton for their strong leadership ... but mostly for Congressman Tim's Murphy's relentless energy and effort to not allow this bill or it's mission die. Families in crises thank him from the bottom of changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-9845713703027084742016-01-26T22:23:00.001-08:002016-01-27T18:07:24.253-08:00Governor Bevin proposes deep budget cuts, but would preserve social workers, law enforcement and public defenders
Yes Governor Bevin, it is crazy!
“We have folks who are working (in prisons) for 12 hours on 12 hours on 12 hours on 12 hours. It’s crazy,” the governor said. “We have to offset some of that.”
Please consider the need for Kentucky to amend it's antiquated mental health law! Kentucky needs HB94 to pass ... allowing "treatment before tragedy" and reducing the need for law changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-77222964846440712652016-01-22T11:10:00.000-08:002016-01-22T13:18:56.589-08:00‘Tim’s Law’ aims to keep individuals with a serious brain disease OUT of Kentucky hospitals, off streets
AOT (Tim's Law) doesn't have an "IN" patient ... it is before a person meets inpatient involuntary criterion.
AOT (Tim's Law) will help save lives and keep people out of the expensive revolving door!
Sheila Schuster of the Kentucky Mental Health Coalition testified before the House Health and Welfare Committee on Jan. 14, 2016, in favor of a bill that changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-75183090797837395912016-01-11T08:36:00.002-08:002016-01-11T09:41:14.160-08:00Help Kentucky provide treatment BEFORE tragedy, by saying YES to Tim’s Law - HB 94
Tim’s Law - HB 94 – the AOT (assisted outpatient treatment) legislation sponsored by Rep. Tom Burch – will be heard for a vote this coming Thursday (Jan. 14th) at the House Health and Welfare Committee. The committee meets from noon to 2 p.m. in Room 169 of the Annex.
Please call members of the House Health and Welfare Committee and ask for them to vote “Yes!” on HBchangeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-54184856185218591142015-05-24T21:20:00.003-07:002015-05-28T15:41:08.043-07:00100 families travel to Washington, D.C. to ask congress to support "The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act"Mental illness awareness discussed in Washington, D.C.
On May 20, 2015, nearly 100 families and advocates affected by serious mental illness participated in a press event on Capitol Hill hosted by the Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating barriers to treatment for people with severe mental illness.
"I was honored to be among 3 delegates attendingchangeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-19937658286427763452015-05-14T19:32:00.003-07:002015-05-16T15:20:45.309-07:00Thoughts from a Kentucky Mental Health & Prison Reform Advocate – how do we measure our progress?
By: Maggie Krueger, guest blog post
Recently, while helping our daughter
with her science homework, I was reminded of the simple equation for work done.
Work Done = Force X Distance.
If a force is exerted but no distance
moved then no work has been done.
We may feel very fatigued pushing
against that which we have tried to move, but energy was only changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-661754827927954328.post-34555883568075169782015-04-28T14:16:00.000-07:002015-04-28T14:17:16.213-07:00ASSISTED OUTPATIENT TREATMENT DEEMED AN EVIDENCED-BASED PRACTICE BY SAMHSA
Acknowledging a substantial body of research, the federal agency that oversees mental health services and substance abuse treatment has recognized court-ordered outpatient treatment as an evidence-based intervention for people with severe mental illness who struggle with voluntary treatment adherence.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) last week changeMHLawsinKYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248024620313935048noreply@blogger.com0