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Mental Health

On-Line References from June 18, 2008 Meeting on Integrating Mental Health & Primary Care

MacArthur Initiative on Depression & Primary Care at Dartmouth & Duke

Mental Disorders Cost Society Billions in Unearned Income (2008)

Behavioral Health/Primary Care Integration: Finance, Policy & Integration of Services (2006)

Mass Shootings at Virginia Tech: Report of Governor Kaine's Review Panel (2007)

Commonwealth of Virginia Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, Preliminary Report and Recommendations (December, 2007)

Availability and Cost of Licensed Psychiatric Services in Virginia [Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC), 2007]

Mind and Body Reunited:  Improving Care at the Behavioral and Primary Healthcare Interface (American College of Mental Health Administration Summit, March, 2007)

Mental Health Needs of Immigrants

Bureau of Primary Health Care Depression Health Collaboratives

Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health

Institute of Medicine (IOM)  Quality Chasm Series:  Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions (2006)

From Study to Action:  A Strategic Plan for Transformation of Mental Health Care, IOM Aims and Rules in the Language of Mental Health (2006)

Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, Medical Directors Council, (2006)

The Primary Care/Behavioral Health Interface, Mental Health, United States, 2004.  US Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

The Humpty Dumpty Syndrome: Integration and Behavioral Health (2003)

Building Systems of Care:  A Primer, Values and Principles for the System of Care (2002)

Report of a Surgeon General's Working Meeting on the Integration of Mental Health Services and Primary Health Care (2002)

Report of the Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health: A National Action Agenda

Culture, Race and Ethnicity: A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General

National Council for Community Behavioral Health

National Alliance on Mental Illness
NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families.

National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations
The National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations (NCMHCSO) works to ensure that consumer/survivors have a major voice in the development and implementation of health care, mental health, and social policies at the state and national levels.

NARSAD: The Mental Health Research Association
This organization's mission is to raise and distribute funding for the most promising psychiatric disease research in order to develop new preventative measures, better diagnoses and improved treatments for these conditions.