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		<title>No on Prop 1E &#8211; Campaign Update 3/3/09</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From: http://noprop1e.blogspot.com/2009/03/prop-1e-opponents-sue.html Prop. 1E Opponents Sue PRESS RELEASE – Monday, March 2, 2009 Prop. 1E Opponents Sue Over Misleading, ‘Happy Talk’ Ballot Language Measure Would Cut Almost $500 Million from Mental Health, But Official Descriptions Falsely Portray Prop. 1E as Necessary to ‘Preserve’ Programs SACRAMENTO, March 2 – Opponents of one of the measures on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mhaasc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3745717&amp;post=42&amp;subd=mhaasc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Op Ed &#8211; Cuts Threaten Developmentally Disabled</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Op-Ed in the Napa Valley Register on Sunday by Becoming Independent CEO Cami Weaver put the State budget crisis in perspective for the some 1,100 individuals served by the Santa Rosa based service organization and the workers who provide those services. Many of the people Becoming Independent serves are able to live independently thanks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mhaasc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3745717&amp;post=36&amp;subd=mhaasc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Advocacy Group Meeting &#8211; Dec</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who are interested, MHAA-SC has been invited to attend the next meeting of HAG, the Housing Advocacy Group, on December 9th.  Guest speaker will be Efren Carillo, Supervisor-Elect for the 5th District.  We will be disucussing a broad range of housing-related issues, including those that affect mental health consumers, their families, and the community. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mhaasc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3745717&amp;post=33&amp;subd=mhaasc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Insane Situation: Sonoma County&#8217;s Mental Health System is Nothing But Crazy-Making</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the North Bay Bohemian By Lois Pearlman The Russian River Empowerment Center occupies a simple, two-story house a block behind Guerneville&#8217;s Main Street. To reach it from the west corner, you have to step into the narrow roadway to avoid a puddle&#8211;inexplicable in the middle of a drought&#8211;and the neighbor&#8217;s red canoe. The hand-painted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mhaasc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3745717&amp;post=32&amp;subd=mhaasc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Rules Court Won&#8217;t Step in to Aid Vets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, June 26, 2008 (06-25) 11:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; The federal government is subjecting veterans to long delays in obtaining mental health care and medical benefits, but the power to change the system rests with officials and Congress, not the courts, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mhaasc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3745717&amp;post=31&amp;subd=mhaasc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mentally ill face extra-long ER waits</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Julie Appleby, USA TODAY &#8211; June 17, 2008 &#8211; Psychiatric patients who need hospitalization wait for hours in emergency departments for admission because hospitals are dropping mental health units and beds are scarce, a new survey says. Nearly 80% of hospitals said mentally ill patients sometimes wait four hours or more to be admitted, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mhaasc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3745717&amp;post=29&amp;subd=mhaasc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Field Poll: CA Public Oppose MH Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Field Poll: To cut or not to cut Sacrament Bee Staff Published 5:46 am PDT Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Here&#8217;s the dilemma facing state politicians as they seek to close this year&#8217;s budget gap: California voters say they prefer spending cuts to tax increases. But a new Field Poll found they also oppose cuts in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mhaasc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3745717&amp;post=28&amp;subd=mhaasc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coalition plans coordination on mental health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Press Democrat Monday, June 9, 2008 BY D. ASHLEY VERRILL STAFF REPORTER SONOMA COUNTY – The Mental Health Coalition of Sonoma County has spent the last four years quietly preparing for the launch of what could make it the most important player in the county’s mental health system as a kind of clearinghouse of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mhaasc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3745717&amp;post=26&amp;subd=mhaasc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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