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 Bazelon Center Issues Call to Action by Federal and State Governments: Implement cost-effective Olmstead principles in
healthcare reform to end segregation of people with psychiatric disabilities (6/24/09)
Bazelon Center Welcomes President Obama's Pledge to People with Mental Disabilities on Olmstead's 10th Anniversary (6/22/09)
Sotomayor Nomination is Good News for People with Disabilities (updated 6/22/09)
Inappropriateness of Residential Treatment is the Real Issue in Forest Grove v. T.A. Supreme Court case (updated 6/22/09) Placement of students in residential treatment centers like Mount Bachelor Academy in Oregon, a center involved in the case, are inappropriate and can be harmful for students with mental health and special education needs. Read more...
Supportive Housing resources include the Bazelon Center's analysis documenting the most effective and integrated approach to housing for people with mental disabilities (3/09)
Patient and Hospital Settle ADA Challenge to Mandatory Clothing-Removal Policy (3/10/09) Under the hospital's prior policy--ended by the agreement--psychiatric patients who refused to remove their clothes were forcibly stripped. Read more...
Georgia Stakeholders Ask Court to Withhold Approval of Settlement with Justice Department (3/2/09)
Federal Court Upholds Rights of People with Mental Illnesses in New York City "Adult Homes" (2/19/09)
 Millions of children will receive mental health care at parity through renewed and expanded SCHIP. Federal program will add coverage for 4 million children who are now uninsured. (2/4/09)
Issue briefs look to future healthcare reform, examine critical areas affecting integration of mental health services. (11/20/08 and a new brief on consumers' role added 5/27/09)
Bazelon Center and Leadership 21 Release Student Guide (9/23/08)
Information on mental health resources for college and university students and explanation of their rights when seeking treatment.
Federal Court Approves Agreement to Create New Housing and Community
Services
(9/18/08) 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.
President Signs ADA Amendments Act (9/25/08)
Bazelon Center has high praise for bipartisan legislation reviving ADA protections.
New
Agreement Mandates Sweeping Changes in
D.C. Special Education
 Update: July 28, 2008--The Bazelon Center now posts breaking news about the Blackman/Jones lawsuit on a new listserv. For an invitation to the listserv, contact Lewis Bossing at (202) 467-5730 x116 or Blackman@bazelon.org
.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...
 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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