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Oklahoma Looks for Ways to Keep Mentally Ill Ex-offenders Out of Prison
The mentally ill account for an ever-greater portion of prison populations. Oklahoma has had success in preventing former inmates with mental problems from being incarcerated again. more
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States Crack Down on Mental Health Prescriptions
Medicaid is saving substantial amounts of money by limiting access to behavioral medications. But is it fair to the patients? more
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Mental Health Funding Decreases in Many States
TODAY'S TAKE: General fund spending on mental health programs declined in more than half the states over the last three years, according to a new report. Nine states cut funding by more than 10 percent.more -
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- Children's Dental Campaign
Funding Children's Dental Care
The Pew Children’s Dental Campaign is partnering with dental provider associations, consumer groups and children’s advocates at the state and federal levels to increase federal support for Medicaid and CHIP and ensure federal requirements make it easier for states to operate successful dental programs. more
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Maine Republican Legislators Contemplate End to Labor Committee
TRANSITION WATCH: Maine Republicans seek to fold historic panel, Connecticut's pension gap gets bigger, and more news of the historic shift in power in the states. more
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As Economy Takes Toll, Mental Health Budgets Shrink
Funding for mental health services used to go up, in good times and bad. Now, states are cutting back. The result is longer waiting lists for certain services and a growing risk that more people will wind up in hospital emergency rooms, homeless shelters and jails.more -
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Summary of the Washington State of the State Address
"Jobs are the way out of this recession," Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire (D) told the Democratic-led Legislature in her state of the state address Jan. 12, laying out a series of proposals she said would create as many as 40,000 new jobs this year. more
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Mass. Health Connector, Other Innovations Honored
As the Obama administration and Congress debate the details of a national health care plan, the state that paved the way for universal coverage was honored in Washington, D.C. more
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Ga. Hotline Aims to Cut Mental Health Costs
Even as the recession chips away at mental health services across the country, Georgia's around-the-clock psychiatric hotline is finding a way to weather the storm - and other states are watching closely.more -
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New Courts Tailored to War Veterans
Twenty years after local officials in Miami opened the nation's first drug court - a specialized "treatment court" aimed at rehabilitating low-level drug offenders instead of locking them up - state lawmakers in Illinois and Nevada are applying the same idea to a different population: war veterans who have had run-ins with the law.more