Word: mental
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Last year, there were a number of unmet needs: we needed a shelter for women, more family transitional housing, more day programs, more child care, more meals for families, additional funds to assist homeless individuals and families in making downpayments on permanent apartments, and access to medical and mental health programs," said Philip F. Mangano, emergency services coordinator with the city's Department of Human Service Programs (DHSP...
Testimony revealed that Chang, who received a BS from MIT, had recently been released from a mental hospital and has been arrested more than 20 times. Chang objected that the lines of questioning were personal and irrelevant, but the board overruled...
Wacker says UHS has distributed pamphlets, trained clinical and mental health workers and the expanded the Health Educator's office...
...been put on this year--a Div School group did it last spring. Cocktail Party is one of those rather nasty comedies of manners that are the ancestors of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? T.S. Eliot translates his marital problems and his wife's mental instability into theater...
Create more community-based health clinics. The homeless crisis began when overcrowded mental hospitals started to release patients who were not considered dangerous to themselves or others. The number of mental patients in U.S. institutions dropped from a peak of 560,000 to 143,000 today, and an estimated 30% to 40% of the homeless are mentally impaired. The release program was intended to lead to more small facilities, where the poor could receive affordable outpatient care. Yet 70% of the $6 billion spent each year on state-run mental health programs still goes to institutions. A greater proportion must...