NYC Launches $2M Ad Campaign To Trigger Talk About Mental Health Issues
Meanwhile, N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory hopes to increase the state's spending on mental health, a judge in Washington orders a partial shutdown of a treatment facility for mentally ill defendants because of safety risks and inpatient psychiatric beds are scarce in California.
The Associated Press:
NYC Unveils $2 Million Mental Health Advertising Campaign
New York City has launched a $2 million advertising campaign meant to get people thinking and talking about mental health problems. City first lady Chirlane McCray unveiled the television, print, online and subway and bus ads Monday. They feature people talking about their experiences with bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and addiction. (4/11)
The Associated Press:
McCrory Proposes $50M For Health Programs, Elderly, Children
Gov. Pat McCrory says he'd like to see more taxpayer spending on mental health, the elderly and children. McCrory on Monday talked about some of his priorities for the budget North Carolina lawmakers hammer out this summer. (4/11)
The Associated Press:
Judge Orders State To Fix Mental Health Facility
A federal judge [in Washington state] ordered the partial shutdown of a new treatment facility for mentally ill defendants in Yakima after learning that the renovated jail poses a safety risk. Lawyers for the defendants had sought a restraining order to stop the Department of Social and Health Services from sending mentally ill defendants to the Yakima Residential Treatment Facility to have their competency restored. They argued that a former jail was not an appropriate setting for treating the mentally ill, and said the facility hadn't been properly renovated to ensure that patients would not harm themselves or others. (Bellisle, 4/11)
Kaiser Health News:
A Dearth Of Hospital Beds For Patients In Psychiatric Crisis
Finding an available inpatient psychiatric bed in the state of California can be extremely difficult. Many patients with acute psychiatric conditions spend days deteriorating in hospital emergency departments while they wait. But how exactly to solve the problem has become a controversy in Sacramento. An Assembly bill backed by the California Psychiatric Association and the Steinberg Institute, a mental health policy organization, seeks to improve the process by establishing an online registry to collect and display information to help medical providers find psychiatric beds. (Gold, 4/12)
