ADVOCACY NEWS FROM NAMI NEW JERSEY:
1. VOLUNTEERS GET SPACE AT GREYSTONE
2. WRECKING BALL ON WAY TO GREYSTONE
3. MOST STRESS CASES MISSED
4. INJURED IRAQ WAR VETERANS SUE VA HEAD
5. FACILITY FOR TROUBLED YOUTHS IN N.J. FAULTED
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VOLUNTEERS GET SPACE AT GREYSTONE
A more than half-century-old volunteer group dedicated
to helping patients at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
has won its battle with the state for a new home that will
allow it to continue its charitable deeds, officials said
yesterday. State officials approved the plan after several
months of talks that occurred after the GPA balked at moving
into what it considered unacceptable quarters inside the
new hospital.
Read more:
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/morris/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1187151987197510.xml&coll=1
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WRECKING BALL ON WAY TO GREYSTONE
From a distance, the Greystone campus has the look of a
picturesque college campus -- just what mental health experts
of the late 19th and early 20th centuries sought when they
created what is now Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
in Parsippany. Now the wrecking ball is looming for Greystone's
buildings. Morris County is moving to tear down the last
two major vestiges of a 1920s building boom that turned
Greystone from a large hospital into a small psychiatric
city.
More:
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/morris/index.ssf?/base/news-3/118689293873201.xml&coll=1
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MOST STRESS CASES MISSED
Only about 3 percent of soldiers who have served in combat
since 2003 have been diagnosed by the Army with post-traumatic
stress disorder - far fewer than the numbers who have screened
positive for PTSD symptoms in recent Army studies, suggesting
that the disorder is being under-reported and under-diagnosed.
Veterans advocates say the military could be doing more
to encourage reporting, including conducting thorough mental
health screenings of all troops, before and after they deploy
to war.
See the full article:
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ptsd0806.artaug06,0,4051975,print.story
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INJURED IRAQ WAR VETERANS SUE VA HEAD
Frustrated by delays in health care, injured Iraq war veterans
accused VA Secretary Jim Nicholson in a lawsuit of breaking
the law by denying them disability pay and mental health
treatment. The lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs, filed in federal court in San Francisco, seeks
broad changes in the agency as it struggles to meet growing
demands from veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read more:
http://www.kansascity.com/449/story/201154.html
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FACILITY FOR TROUBLED YOUTHS IN N.J. FAULTED
New Jersey's largest privately run residential treatment
facility for troubled youths employed untrained temporary
workers and kept children, sometimes for years, in treatment
programs designed for much briefer periods, state officials
said. The challenges at VisionQuest in New Lisbon "are
so significant and persistent that the program must be planfully
and significantly modified, or closed," wrote Kevin
Ryan, commissioner of the state Department of Children and
Families.
See the story:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20070807_Facility_for_troubled_youths_in_N_J__faulted.html
