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Celebrating Our Diversity - Building for Better Mental Health - Self-Empowerment - Violence, Schizophrenia, & This Journal - "Four Stories" Produces Hundreds More - What Are our Rights? Patient Advocacy - Legal Actions - What Are Our Rights? More Than Defending an Indigent Criminal
Leading By Example - Gay and Mentally Disabled - From Patient to Advocate - Outpatient Civil Commitment - Mental Health Insurance Parity - Forced Psychiatric Treatment - orking with Mental Illness - Thousands of New Yorkers Attend 5th Annual Picnic for Parity - It's Time for Real Health Care Reform - Update on Involuntary Outpatient Commitment - Deadly Restraints - Working for Systems Change and Peer-run Alternatives - Our Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency - White House Meets On Mental Health - First Break: One Year Later - Frey & Frese on ABC World News Tonight - CSEA, Mental Health Group Team Up - Breaking the Silence - Working Toward a National Consumer Voice - $126 Million More? - Warm Line in Action - Homeless & Mentally Ill in New York City - A Mental Health Agenda for the New Century - Consumer Cover-Up - The "Brain Disorder" Label
As We Begin A New Century - New Health Care Reform Act - An Alternative to PACT - MHANYS' 2000 Legislative Program - Families and Consumers: Coalescing Constituencies - Work Incentive Act is Law - New Era for Mental Health - Andrew Goldstein Trial - Stigmabusters Network - Parity Matters to Me - Special Section: Mental Health & Violence - Mother of Suicide Victim Speaks Out - National Council on Disability Recommends New Rights Protections - Teaching the Professionals - Jails Seeking Ways to Handle Mentally Ill - A Mother's View - Madman on the Car Hood - Wonderland is Off the Air - Mentally Ill in Jails - 1,000 Mile Journey For Life Earns Clifford W. Beers Award - Tragedies Will Continue Without Action - Cruel Editorials, Columns & Politics - Singing the Praises of an Unsung Hero - What Consumers Can Do - "Hospitals to Handcuffs" - Kendra's Law Narrowly Interpreted - Consumer/Survivors Work Toward "National Desk" - New York City Ordered to Provide Discharge Plans for Mentally Ill in Jail - Into the Capitol - NAMI Annual Convention - Voices of Recovery