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Open Free for All / Live8
« on: July 02, 2005, 03:14:00 PM »
http://www.calendarlive.com/printeditio ... ck=tothtml

Tuning in
Here's how to watch and listen to Live 8.
All times are PDT.

Computer
America Online will carry six of the nine concerts live on http://www.aolmusic.com. The concerts will also be available "on demand" for six weeks, starting immediately after each performance. AOL membership not required.

The schedule:

Berlin: 5 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

London: 6 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Rome: 6:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Toronto: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Philadelphia: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Paris: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

See live8live.com for complete lineups and related details.

Television

MTV, VH1 and MTVU: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The coverage will be primarily live, with some tape-delayed segments, and will focus on London and Philadelphia.

VH1 Classic: highlights 5 p.m. Sunday and Monday.

CMT: highlights 8:30 p.m. Sunday; 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Monday.

Radio

XM satellite radio: 4 a.m. to 5 p.m. Same concert lineup as AOL.

KKBT-FM (100.3): reports and musical segments between 1 and 7 p.m.

KLOS-FM (95.5): highlights starting at noon, including the Pink Floyd reunion in London.

KCXX-FM (103.9): selected performances throughout the day, starting at 9 a.m.

Other

Cellphone telecast through GoTV.

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Open Free for All / SDUT: Girls, Boys and Noise
« on: June 30, 2005, 02:56:00 PM »
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib ... llnuz.html

GIRLS, BOYS AND NOISE

Children who live near noisy airports don't learn to read as quickly or remember as well as children who don't, a new European study finds.

Researchers studied more than 2,800 children in 89 primary schools near airports in Amsterdam, Madrid and London. They measured noise levels at each school, then administered tests of memory function and reading ability.

After correcting for socioeconomic differences between the schools, the scientists concluded that aircraft noise had a significant negative effect on reading, delaying comprehension by as much as two months in some schools.

The effect on memory was smaller but still significant.

The authors cite no conclusive cause for their findings but speculate that in learning to ignore irrelevant airplane noise, students also learn to tune out some relevant speech.

In addition, noise may affect general health or sleep patterns, which can interfere with learning.

Whatever the mechanisms may be, the researchers concluded that "schools exposed to high levels of aircraft noise are not healthy educational environments."

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A letter to the editor sent in today:

Tuesday's Union-Tribune Health Section contained
an item about the harmful effects of noise on children ("Girls, Boys and Noise"). Why don't you
report on the recent San Diego County Grand Jury
report entitled "Naval Training Center (NTC) San Diego. A Gift to the Citizens of San Diego." The
report addresses the issue of harmful effects of
noise on children and discusses recent decisions by the City of San Diego to allow K-12 schools
in the NTC noise impact area. The report can be
accessed at the Grand Jury
Report website:
http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/grandjury/reports.html.

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Feed Your Head / Perfect Madness
« on: June 29, 2005, 08:25:00 PM »
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnf ... db_083.htm

Escape from Perfect Madness?

Author Judith Warner on the "enormous amount of economic anxiety" U.S. families face and how working moms need more public support

Judith Warner's newest book, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety (Riverhead Books, 2005) has a provocative theme that has grabbed the attention of harried working moms. The U.S., she argues, should emulate the French system, which she says supports families economically -- and, in turn, helps them psychologically. Advertisement

Warner has authored a host of nonfiction works on government and policy, including You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America, and the best-selling biography Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story. A former special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris, Warner reviews books for The Washington Post and has written about politics and women's issues for magazines including The New Republic and Elle. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and their children.

She recently spoke with BusinessWeek Online reporter Jeffrey Gangemi about why this is such an anxious age for mothers and about the constraints of workplace culture on families. Here are edited excerpts of their conversation:

Q: Where does all the anxiety come from for working mothers?
A: There's an enormous amount of economic anxiety for American families -- all the way up to the very wealthiest. While not always completely avowed by people, this anxiety conditions the experience of parenthood. For most people, daily financial worry is a very real and present thing. There's fear that the future is not secure, the present is pretty frightening, and that no one is out there to help you. And because people don't have the instinct right now to think globally and to look outside themselves, they tend to focus this anxiety on small things they feel they can control.

Q: How would you characterize the demographic you chose to study?
A: The women I interviewed were middle to upper-middle class, and what I really wanted to do was to write a middle-class person's book. They were mostly college-educated, professional people. My goal was to focus on immediate post-baby boomers, the generation of women born from 1958 to 1972. I was looking for people who came of age in a certain political climate -- [Ronald] Reagan and the first [George] Bush.

Q: Do you think motherhood takes away from workplace equality?
A: Motherhood doesn't take away from workplace equality. The way that our culture deals with motherhood is now taking away from workplace equality. The culture of the workplace forces mothers to choose to continue their career and not get to spend enough time with their children. Or they can choose to go part-time, at which point they often don't make enough money to support their family, and they'll probably lose benefits. This is a nonchoice that we're forced into.

Q: How would you characterize the women you studied as consumers?
A: I wish that we weren't constantly being sold things that promised to allow us to control and perfect our children. That's the main marketing message that comes to us, and it's an insidious message. To encourage a hubristic sense of control is wrong. [But] from a marketer's and manufacturer's point of view, it's an excellent approach because it resonates deeply with this generation. If the point of marketing is solely to sell products, then there's no better approach.

Q: What would it mean for a mother to opt out of this system?
A: That's tricky. How completely can you opt out? It would mean keeping a sense of your center and your values -- not [necessarily] raising your kids to be soccer stars and math geniuses, but determining the kind of human being you want them to be.

Q: How do you balance your personal and professional life, and can you offer any tips?
A: It's a constantly shifting thing -- trying to get to the right level of child care and be with my kids as much as I want. Generally, things tend to be working well for a couple of months, and then they fall apart. I try to get as much work done as I can between nine and three and reduce my dependency on child care to the bare minimum, so that, when things fall apart, it's not the end of the world.

Q: What can we learn from the French, in terms of policy?
A: In terms of family policy, we have everything to learn. If you support families materially, then you also support them psychologically. You lower their stress level tremendously. Clearly, families in France are stressed, too. There's high unemployment, and life has become very expensive.

Yet, they don't worry as much as we do. They know they can afford to have their kids go to the doctor. They don't have to pay for college. And when it comes to very early childhood, they don't have to worry about child care for the first three years because there are structures in place to help them.

Edited by Thane Peterson

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Open Free for All / Want government out of bedrooms?
« on: June 26, 2005, 02:07:00 PM »
This is the title of the ad I read today here:
http://www.themoderatevoice.com/

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Open Free for All / Straight Edge Kids
« on: June 21, 2005, 01:47:00 AM »
This was just on the news, this was about the best link I could find:

http://www.sprawlmagazine.com/articles/ ... Sober.html


Straight Edge sober


by Kelly Rubert // Illustration: Diego Gomez


Kelly, 16, is a contributor to Sprawl Magazine.
March 1, 2003

Suburban LIFE AIN'T what it seems

If you've been to local punk or hardcore shows, you?re bound to see a group of kids with the symbol, "sXe" on the back of their hands and are more than likely dressed in Dickies and canvas shoes. For those who don't know, the symbol stands for Straight Edge, which means kids who bear it, stay clear of drugs and alcohol. Most Straight Edge kids are in their early teens to late 20s and prefer the sound of hard-core. They also consist of young adults who want to convert to Straight Edge after a history with alcohol and drugs.

Here's a little background: Straight Edge was originally started in the early '80s in Washington, D.C. by bands like Minor Threat, SDD and others who advocated to their listeners that keeping sober was much more beneficial than getting drunk or high. It became a reaction to the hedonism and self-destruction that characterized punk. It?s all about self-control. Straight Edge is the only youth counter-culture to actively discourage drug use, alcohol use and casual sex.

The message was carried through the '90s and up to the present day with bands like the Nerve Agents. Their music evolved into a more hard-core sound instead of punk. The philosophy has also grown to include vegetarianism/veganism and awareness of environmental and political issues. The movement is constantly growing and becoming more obvious to other concert-goers. I've even seen a few bands like Earth Crisis on TV with the sXe drawn on their hands. And Dublin, CA is filled with kids that have the symbol written with permanent ink on their backpacks or on their shoes.

No problem, right? Unfortunately, with every movement there is always a group of extremists, who portray a sort of holier-than-thou attitude. I've seen Straight Edge kids lash out at another kid who was drunk or noticeably high. This is their "method" of stopping other audience members from smoking and drinking.

At a show early last summer at the Danville Vets' Hall, I noticed a group of Straight Edge guys and girls out in the parking lot. I didn't pay much attention to them until a girl in her late teens stumbled out of the building, obviously high or drunk.

A few girls from the Straight Edge group approached the girl and started calling her names. They soon kicked her to the ground in a rage, and proceeded to beat her up till a few onlookers ran over and broke up the fight. I was horrified and so were the rest of the non-Straight Edge kids.
I wanted to know why they would treat another human being like that, so I asked my Straight Edge friend, Jerome, a junior from Livermore, and he told me, "Sometimes violence is the only way to make someone listen."

Along with the dedicated radicals, there are also hypocrites: the type who goes to shows with the Straight Edge symbol, but a week later goes to a different show piss-drunk. There are also types who will stay Straight Edge till they hit 18 or 21, because then they can drink and smoke all they want.

The lifestyle doesn't leave any room for experimentation. Regrettably, most kids don't realize the meaning behind it when they first put the symbol on their hand, and often treat it as a mere fashion statement. At school I've approached a few kids with the symbol, and most of them didn't realize that Straight Edge is not only a type of music, but a constant commitment to stay sober.

Of course, Straight Edge is also about the music. If you like Straight Edge bands, you should check out a band from Vancouver called Burden.

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Noticed on a post by Deborah here:
http://www.fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.ph ... orum=9&125

Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=507846

Nutrition and Mental Illness : An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry
by Ph.D., M.D., Carl C. Pfeiffer
   
List Price:    $12.95
Price:            $10.36


Book Description
The distinguished founder of the Brain Bio Center at Princeton shows how the biochemical balance in the body is an important key in preventing and treating many forms of mental illness.

About the Author
Carl C. Pfeiffer Ph.D., M.D. was the Director of the Brain Bio Center in Princeton, New Jersey.
Product Details

   
* Paperback: 128 pages
* Publisher: Healing Arts Press (April 1, 1988)
* Language: English
* ISBN: 0892812265
* Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches  
* Shipping Weight: 6.6 ounces.  
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,360 in Books

Seven reviews, as of June 18, 2005
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/custom ... e&n=507846

 
39 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
an outstanding work on the subject, February 19, 2000
Reviewer:   eyal - newman (tel-aviv, israel) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)  
as an orthomolecular- nutritionist,i must recommand this book, because of only one reason- it is work!, and i see it with my patients.a very organised and scientific book that explains the mental illnesses in the orthomolecular-way, and is very easy to understand and to follow. this is the real orthomolecular therapy for mental illness. buy this book today.

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
A great book for those with bipolar disorder & schizophrenia, November 17, 2004
Reviewer:   S. Chaney (USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)  
If you were to walk into a doctor's office today with scurvy, he or she would prescribe a vitamin to return you to health.

If you were to walk into a doctor's office today with pellagra (which can cause psychotic symptoms), he or she would prescribe a vitamin to return you to health.

But if you were to walk into a doctor's office today with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, he or she would have you take powerful medications that cause changes to the brain. Generally speaking, changes to the brain are described as brain damage.

What your doctor will not tell you, perhaps because he or she won't know about it, is that there is abundant evidence that some - to repeat myself, some but not all - cases of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are caused by vitamin deficiencies, and respond quite well to vitamin and mineral treatment.

Carl Pfeiffer was one of the doctors, who beginning in the 50s, looked for nutrional causes of psychotic disorders. And they did find that some syndromes such as pyroluria did deplete a crucial vitamin (B6) to a critical extent, and that supplementing this vitamin returned many to sanity.

By the time this was established however, the preferred treatment of such disorders were heavy medications, which had vested interests behind them. In 1973 studies were done, which Dr. Pfeiffer and others alledged didn't adequately reflect their treatment guidelines, that did not get any positive results, and the idea that vitamin and mineral deficiencies may play a role in psychotic disorders was declared to be "junk science." One of the five experts on the panel that investigated this treatment approach announced publically before the study that even if every other psychiatrist in the United States would adopt vitamins and minerals in their armamentarium of treatments for schizophrenia, he would refuse to believe they work or use them. One wonders whether the panel was unbiased.

As you may know, doctors that practice medicine based on "junk science" can have their license revoked, and thus this nutrient-based approach to psychiatry pretty much disappeared.

For some odd reason however, many people, more than 25,000 bipolars and schizophrenics have responded extremely well to this approach. A friend who has tried this approach for such a disorder is extremely pleased.

Dr. Pfeiffer was either a complete charlatan, or a man ahead of his time. I believe the latter to be true, as, in this book, published in 1987, he mentions that maintaining a sufficient intake of omega-3 fatty acids is another crucial factor to the well-being of bipolar and schizophrenic patients.

In 2002 a Harvard psychopharmacologist by the name of Stoll published a book called "The Omega-3 Connection: The Groundbreaking Antidepression Diet and Brain Program." Dr. Stoll had been derided by his peers for his belief that certain fatty acids usually found in fish were crucial to having a healthy brain, but when a study of his on the use of Omega-3s in bipolar disorder produced phenomenal results, the accolades began to flow in. Amazon.com describes Dr. Stoll's book as a "must read."

I feel that a book that said the same thing - and much, much more - 15 years earlier is another "must read."
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Do not believe "Kinda fishy" review, it is incorrect, May 30, 2005
Reviewer:   B. Berry (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)  
I did some research on what this reviewer said and found a few things. Reviewers said the Brain Bio Center was supposed to be in Skillman, NJ, but it says on the back of the book it was in Princeton, NJ. Reviewer said it was not listed in the phonebook. It's not likely because it is no more. The Brain Bio Center operator from 1972 until the early 80's. That would also account for there not being a web page for it. Unlike reviewer says, the full name of the institution is not "The Princeton Brain Bio Center". It is just "The Brain Bio Center" and it happened to be in Princeton. Reviewer said it is not associated with Princeton University and neither did the bio claim to be. The bio says "it is sponsored by the Schizophrenia Foundation of New Jersey and the New Jersey Mental Health Research and Development Fund".

It seems the reviewer didn't do well enough research. Make sure your research is thorough. Be careful in believing the negative reviews on here. The reviewer lastly says megadoses of vitamins can be dangerous. Dr. Pfeiffer never mentions taking mega doses. He has exact amounts of each nutrient that should be taken.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Kind of Fishy, May 12, 2005
Reviewer:   R. Haeckler (West Chester, PA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)  
Dr. Pfeiffer's book was very interesting, but there are some issues that cause me a bit of concern. First, the Brain Bio Center that is supposed to be in Skillman, NJ is not listed in the Skillman phone book. The phone number given in the back of the book got me a recording. They don't seem to have a web page. There are only two labs I found on an internet search that do testing for pyroluria, an interesting disorder mentioned in the book. The one in the US is called the Pfeiffer center. The full name of the Brain Bio Center is apparently the "Princeton Brain Bio Center" but is not affiliated with Princeton University, nor is it in Princeton. Most of the credible hits I got on the internet when searching for Pyroluria seemed to quote Dr. Pfeiffer or another doctor who is the head of the Pfeiffer Center. I could not find out how much the testing for pyroluria would cost.

I'm not saying he is a quack, but in one day I found a lot of things that just didn't add up. Be careful before believing too much of what's in the book or investing too much money into this, and remember that megadoses of vitamins can be dangerous.
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Great Book, July 3, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
This book has really changed and helped my life, I have never been this happy, and the B6 causes the most pleasent dreams I have ever had. 20 years from now a ZMA(zinc and magnesium) supplement with B6 will be as common as taking your daily vitamin. No wonder so many women get their blues during their cycle, depletion of the most important trace metals the human body needs.
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7 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
American article by Kay Redfield have most of her books, September 13, 2003
Reviewer:   Ellie (Los Angeles USA) - See all my reviews
I have lived with Manic Depressive illness for over half of my life. Her books were true to life as if she were talking to me. I have worked with mental illness as patients I have been a priviate nurse worked with Alzimers patients for 8 yrs. Kay"s book have given me hope and strength to face what I have to each and every day. I was taking the drug Lithium as she did.For 30 yr then it became infective resulting in an episode requireing 11 days in a locked up hospital mental unit it has been 2 yr and I still suffer sleepless nights and turn to her books for help. Her books are great I can't say enough.

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Feed Your Head / California Mental Health Master Plan
« on: June 17, 2005, 09:42:00 AM »
http://www.dmh.cahwnet.gov/mhpc/masterplan.asp

    

* Viewing of the following materials require Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here to download.

To view or download the California Mental Health Master Plan in its entirety, click here, or select the appropriate section to view from the links which follow:

    Cover Page

    Title Page

    Acknowledgements

    Table of Contents

    Executive Summary

    Chapter 1 - Mission and Philosophy of California's Mental Health System

    Chapter 2 - Commitment to Cultural Competence

    Chapter 3 - Unmet Need for Public Mental Health Services

    Chapter 4 - The Planned System of Care for Children and Youth

    Chapter 5 - The Planned System of Care for Adults

    Chapter 6 - The Planned System of Care for Older Adults

    Chapter 7 - Managed Mental Health Care

    Chapter 8 - System Accountability and Oversig

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http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... =22&Sort=D

Referrals to Safe Harbor
Posted: 2005-06-16 12:46:00  
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I suggest you post a poll on how helpful YOUR contributions have been Pauly, and stop the organized attack on me.

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A-OK, Deborah, for all those interested in making a comment, please do!

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Open Free for All / California's Mental Health Services Act
« on: June 15, 2005, 01:18:00 PM »
Here is a link for San Diego's information on the
implementation of Prop 63.

http://sandiego.networkofcare.org/mh/home/prop63.cfm

Please note that input is welcome from anyone.

Program proposals are welcome from anyone.

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Open Free for All / Safe Harbor www.alternativementalhealth.com/
« on: June 15, 2005, 09:53:00 AM »
[I started this thread in the wrong section. I believe it should be here instead - Paul]

http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?So ... 07&forum=9

generally use drugs as a first practice
Posted: 2005-06-14 23:15:00    There is no forced medication in the State of California in county mental health system's,
nor the prison systems.

In rare cases, only in involuntary treatment
situations, after a Reese Hearing is there
any "forced" medication.

All patients sign an informed consent document.
If they don't want meds, they don't receive any -
period! End of story.

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If Wendy, or you Deborah, or any of the Anti-crowd
would do some actual activity like helping people,
attending meetings, and understanding the programs then you would know that the programs being discussed are "programs" not medical protocols.


Frankly, it is hard to spend time on this issue with you. There is so much content out there on
what evidence based practices are and the documentaion of medications and the protection of
consumers to make their own choices that if you
want to keep ignoring these facts, then you are
simply a useless gadfly!

Perhaps I will post my question once again, in a new topic ... has Deborah helped anyone at Fornits?

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Paul
A regular around here

Joined: 2005-03-30
Posts: 163    "Paul does not speak for Safe Harbor."
Posted: 2005-06-14 23:08:00    Wow, what a profound statement!

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Paul
A regular around here

Joined: 2005-03-30
Posts: 163    Posted: 2005-06-14 23:05:00    I just noticed this post from you Deborah:

Paul, you said:
Safe Harbor is having a non medication conference
in June. I offered to get the folks at Safe Harbor going with the Mental Health Services Act for funding, but they where not interested. I tried ...
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... =40#102890

Safe Harbor was interested in the taxpayer approved fund for improving the mental health system in California. I spoke to the president and one of the board members. They declined furthur help when I let them know that only evidence based practices are to be funded. Apparently they did not have proof that their non-pharma solutions worked or they would have asked for money.
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... 190#108648

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Why would you "try? to set them up with MHSA funds if you knew the funds only go to ?evidence based practices?, or as Wendy understood, to ?government-run agencies??

How is "evidence based" defined? To your knowledge, is there any ?evidence based? alternative (non-drug) treatments, other than therapy?

I contacted Wendy at Safe Harbor and here is her response, which I post with her permission. As you will read, her understanding is that the funding had nothing to do with "evidence-based practices." :

Paul does not speak for Safe Harbor. He had suggested a possible funding source to myself and Dan Stradford, president of Safe Harbor. I personally checked out the government funding possibility; however, from what I found, it is only for government agencies, not private nonprofits like Safe Harbor. As the fundraiser for Safe Harbor, we of course, would love funding, but this idea suggested by Paul was a dead end unfortunately.

It has nothing to do with "evidence-based practices." (Paul never mentioned this to me personally. He simply sent me the URL's to check out.) This is government money for government-run agencies, which generally use drugs as a first practice. Safe Harbor is trying to change this of course, and move government agencies toward nondrug alternatives. There is some interest in the area, and we are continuing to push for nondrug treatments and practices.

For information about Safe Harbor, please check our Web site at AlternativeMentalHealth.com, contact me at [email protected]. Thanks.

Wendy Bolt
SAFE HARBOR
787 W. Woodbury Rd., #2
Altadena, CA 91001

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I "tried" to set them up per a request from a mother, who is also a doctor who desperately wants
her son off of medications.

Dan said, oops, via email, stated he was interested.

I never dialogued, oops, emailed with Wendy, I don't know who she is.

I don't this she researched Prop 63, or she could not have made this statement:

"I personally checked out the government funding possibility; however, from what I found, it is only for government agencies, not private nonprofits like Safe Harbor."

If she, or Dan would have asked me, or anyone for a clarification for something they did not understand in the new California law there is plenty of availability to have it explained.

They didn't asked, they made an incorrect assumption and most likely the "evidence based" part of the law scared them off.

Deborah, how is it that you, the Scientologist, Safe Harbor and the other anti-psychiatry folks
are so turned off by "evidence based"?

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Open Free for All / Voluntary treatment, so hard to understand!
« on: June 15, 2005, 02:30:00 AM »
Does anyone else at Fornit's need assistance
in understanding what the word "voluntary"
means when being offered medical help?

Deborah interprets voluntary as forced
drugging, in her words. No amount of voluntary
explanations and realities will sway her
interpretation that voluntary means voluntary.

Is this a major problem here at Fornit's that
somehow voluntary equates to forced?

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Open Free for All / Does Deborah's Anti-Psychiatry posts help anyone?
« on: June 15, 2005, 02:27:00 AM »
Please post if Deborah's posts have either
helped or hurt anyone?

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Safe Harbor
« on: June 15, 2005, 02:05:00 AM »
I just noticed this post from you Deborah:

Paul, you said:
Safe Harbor is having a non medication conference
in June. I offered to get the folks at Safe Harbor going with the Mental Health Services Act for funding, but they where not interested. I tried ...
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... =40#102890

Safe Harbor was interested in the taxpayer approved fund for improving the mental health system in California. I spoke to the president and one of the board members. They declined furthur help when I let them know that only evidence based practices are to be funded. Apparently they did not have proof that their non-pharma solutions worked or they would have asked for money.
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... 190#108648

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Why would you "try? to set them up with MHSA funds if you knew the funds only go to ?evidence based practices?, or as Wendy understood, to ?government-run agencies??

How is "evidence based" defined? To your knowledge, is there any ?evidence based? alternative (non-drug) treatments, other than therapy?

I contacted Wendy at Safe Harbor and here is her response, which I post with her permission. As you will read, her understanding is that the funding had nothing to do with "evidence-based practices." :

Paul does not speak for Safe Harbor. He had suggested a possible funding source to myself and Dan Stradford, president of Safe Harbor. I personally checked out the government funding possibility; however, from what I found, it is only for government agencies, not private nonprofits like Safe Harbor. As the fundraiser for Safe Harbor, we of course, would love funding, but this idea suggested by Paul was a dead end unfortunately.

It has nothing to do with "evidence-based practices." (Paul never mentioned this to me personally. He simply sent me the URL's to check out.) This is government money for government-run agencies, which generally use drugs as a first practice. Safe Harbor is trying to change this of course, and move government agencies toward nondrug alternatives. There is some interest in the area, and we are continuing to push for nondrug treatments and practices.

For information about Safe Harbor, please check our Web site at AlternativeMentalHealth.com, contact me at [email protected]. Thanks.

Wendy Bolt
SAFE HARBOR
787 W. Woodbury Rd., #2
Altadena, CA 91001

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I "tried" to set them up per a request from a mother, who is also a doctor who desperately wants
her son off of medications.

Dan said, oops, via email, stated he was interested.

I never dialogued, oops, emailed with Wendy, I don't know who she is.

I don't this she researched Prop 63, or she could not have made this statement:

"I personally checked out the government funding possibility; however, from what I found, it is only for government agencies, not private nonprofits like Safe Harbor."

If she, or Dan would have asked me, or anyone for a clarification for something they did not understand in the new California law there is plenty of availability to have it explained.

They didn't asked, they made an incorrect assumption and most likely the "evidence based" part of the law scared them off.

Deborah, how is it that you, the Scientologist, Safe Harbor and the other anti-psychiatry folks
are so turned off by "evidence based"?

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