Bazelon Center Celebrates House Approval of Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments (6/25/08). Members voted 402-17 to reverse Supreme Court holdings that had deprived many people with disabilities of the ADA's protections.
Healthy Transitions Act Would Ease Path to Adulthood for Youth with Mental Illnesses (6/25/08)
Judicial Nominations Update: Push to Seat Controversial Nominees Continues (5/21/08)
Report Summarizes States' Medicaid Policy Choices under Deficit
Reduction Act (3/20/08)
Advocates
Renew Request for Effective Mental Health Services to Children
in California Foster Care (1/17/08)
Lawsuit
Yields Agreement to Create New Housing and Community
Services 
Mark Chambers’ dream “to be part of the world
outside” the
nursing home he’s
lived in for eight years will soon come true. Over the next five years, Chambers
and several hundred other residents of the Laguna Honda
Hospital in San Francisco will move from open wards (see photo) to
independent
apartments
linked
to
the
supportive services they need, assuming approval by the court of a
settlement
announced
on
November
27, 2007. Read more...
New
Agreement Mandates Sweeping Changes in
D.C. Special Education
 December
13, 2007—District of Columbia officials announced
that the city will make sweeping changes in its special
education program to comply with a
new consent decree in a 10-year-old class action, Blackman & Jones v. District
of Columbia. When approved by the court, the decree
will require the school
system
to
address
the needs of hundreds of
students with mental or
physical disabilities who await services. Read
more...
Appeals
Court Favors Individual Determination of Voting Rights
for Disenfranchised Citizens with Mental Disabilities
August
23, 2007—The U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Eighth Circuit held that Missouri law allows
citizens who are under full guardianship to retain their
voting rights if they demonstrate a capacity to
vote. Read
more...
Bazelon
Center Offers Educational Institutions a Model Policy for Addressing
Student Mental Health Issues
Washington DC, May 16, 2007--The Bazelon Center for Mental
Health Law today released a model policy to help colleges and
universities develop a non-discriminatory, non-punitive approach
to students in crisis because of mental health problems. Read
more...
 Way to Go: School Success for Children with Mental Health Care Needs
“Way to Go"—It
means praise for a child and a roadmap for policymakers and
is the title of a new Bazelon Center report that lays out a
new direction for child mental health systems linked to a new
movement in education. Read
more...
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