Jul 2, 2019 | Mental Health Update
Last year on July 1, New York State became the first state in the nation to have a law that mandates the teaching of mental health instruction in school. Below is a story from Buffalo’s NPR Station that highlights some of the work that has been done in Western New...
Jun 27, 2019 | Mental Health Update
Thanks to the leadership of Assembly Mental Hygiene Chair, Aileen Gunther and Senate Mental Hygiene Chair, David Carlucci as well as our colleagues at ACL for their leadership in passage of a bill that would establish a temporary commission to make funding...
Jun 27, 2019 | Mental Health Update
The New Jersey Mental Health Education Bill has gone to the Governor’s desk for signature. We are very hopeful that New Jersey will join New York and Virginia in being among the first States in the country to mandate the teaching of mental health in schools. ASSEMBLY...
Jun 25, 2019 | Mental Health Update
MHANYS is pleased to welcome Amanda Saake to OMH as the new Special Assistant to the Commissioner overseeing the Office of Consumer Affairs. She will be the keynote speaker on July 9th at MHANYS Self-Stigma Symposium titled ‘Stigma; What is it?’ To register for...
Jun 21, 2019 | Mental Health Update
We have long maintained that virtually every piece of major legislation has a mental health impact (i.e.—sexual harassment law, climate change, labor rights for farmers, etc.) but there are also specific legislative pieces that impact mental health directly. Here are...
