The Journal of
Common Sense
Special Issue      Winter 2000/2001      Vol. 6 No. 3

The Unhealthy State of our Mental Health

Contents
Introduction
A Plea for Political Courage
History and Overview
A View from the Community
Now What? An Analysis of
    Recent Reports on
    NC Mental Health Services

Some Findings and
    Recommendations

The Mental Health System
    and its Financing And Use:
    An Introduction

A Mental Health Glossary
The Stigma of Mental Illness
Housing and the Disability of
    Extreme Poverty

Adult Care Homes
Treating Persons with
    Dual Disorders

Correctional Mental Health
    in NC:An
    Expensive Non-solution

Race and Mental Health
Richard's Story: One
     Family's Journey through
    the Mental Health System

Harmony in Three Parts:
     Why Is this
     a Utopian Scenario?

References
Recommendations
Mental Health Services
Current Area Programs
Seth Is His Name and
     He Needs Your Help

References

Fullwood, Nat. 1999. The Locke Foundation Policy Report. Rhetoric or Reform? The Future of Mental Health in North Carolina. No. 31, October 1999. 22 pp. http://www.johnlocke.org/Policy_Reports/PR31Rhetoric.pdf

National Council on Disability. 2000. From Privileges to Rights: People Labeled with Psychiatric Disorders Speak for Themselves. http://www.ncd.gov/publications/publications.html

Surgeon General of the United States. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 1999. Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/home.html

Fiscal Research Division, NC Legislature, Budget/Program Overview, March 3, 1999

Fiscal Research Division, NC Legislature, North Carolina's Public Mental Health System, March 16, 1999 for Area Programs

Office of the North Carolina State Auditor. 2000. Final Report: Study of State Psychiatric Hospitals and Area Mental Health Programs. April 2000. www.osa.state.nc.us/perform/pareport/per-0184.pdf

N.C. Budget & Tax Center. Report on Funding for MH/DD/SA Programs in North Carolina, Spring 1999. (Report not online.) http://ncjustice.org/btc/

DMHDDSAS, Statement for the Legislative Oversight Committee on MH/DD and SAS, October 11, 2000

NAMI, North Carolina http://www.naminc.org



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