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To: rwfromkansas; texasflower; Dane; A Citizen Reporter; Ann Archy; GeorgeBerryman
Argue with this:

Our Mission About the Commission Return to the Home Page Background Information Contact Information Presidential Address New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

 

President's New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health

Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America

Goal 4: Early Mental Health Screening, Assessment, and Referral to Services Are Common Practice

Recommendations

    4.1 Promote the mental health of young children.

    4.2 Improve and expand school mental health programs.


    4.3 Screen for co-occurring mental and substance use disorders and link with integrated treatment strategies.


    4.4 Screen for mental disorders in primary health care, across the life span, and connect to treatment and supports.


955 posted on 06/23/2004 4:28:16 AM PDT by .30Carbine (It's that 4.4 that gets you)
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To: .30Carbine

Again, some commission recommendation that is vague and has no force of law.

If Bush adopts a proposal to screen all folks like WND says will happen, then we should be concerned, not when some impotent commission reports its recommendations.


959 posted on 06/23/2004 8:06:07 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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