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Additionally, Bender is a board member of the World Institute on Disability, [15] Pittsburgh Disability Employment Project for Freedom, [2] Variety the Children's Charity of Pittsburgh, [16] Homeless Children's Education Fund, [17] Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, [18] Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, [19] Disability Rights Pennsylvania. [20]
Keynote address: National Summit of State Hospital Superintendents sponsored by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, Truth and Reconciliation and State Mental Health Systems Through State-Hospital Cemetery Restoration, Alexandria, VA., March, 2001.
[3] [4] Badger earned her degree in Disability Law and Advocacy from Geneva College in 2007. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 2 ] She received her graduate degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Pittsburgh and later earned her doctorate in Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in 2014. [ 7 ]
The Summit is available both in person and virtually, and aims to advance behavioral healthcare support systems for those living with a mental health disorder. A 2023 survey by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) found that one in five adults live with a mental illness. Additionally, the World Health Organization (WHO) made a recent ...
In the 1980s the Arc condemned the use of physical punishment to modify behavior in people with disabilities. [14] In 2008, the Arc was among a group of disability organizations, including the Special Olympics and the National Down Syndrome Congress, which called for a boycott of the film Tropic Thunder, partly due to the way it used the word ...
The first meeting held to address these issues in mental health led to the formation of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill [11] [12] in 1979. In 1997, the legal name was changed to the acronym NAMI by a vote of the membership due to concerns that the name National Alliance for the Mentally Ill did not use person-first language .
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) is a United States governmental agency that provides leadership and support for a comprehensive program of research related to the rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities. It was previously The National Institute on Disability and ...
The summit’s goal was the development of plans to address the needs of people involved in the criminal justice system who are suffering from mental health illnesses and substance use disorders.