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What does the Spending Review 2025 mean for mental health?

Centre for Mental Health

The picture for social services is even less clear than for the NHS. While there are allocations for both adult and children’s social care, the former is contingent on the Casey Review – which has only just begun, and local government finances as a whole remain challenged.

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My Story of Surviving Psychiatry

Mad in America

I remember the nurse taking the full names and dates of birth of my children to give to social services. We were nonetheless put through two social services investigations soon after I was discharged. I told my psychiatrist I had marriage problems and she hit me with a third social services referral.

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Filling the Gaps in SUD Care Coordination

National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

SUD care coordination is unique because it requires navigating both medical and nonmedical systems, including behavioral health, physical health, social services and community-based recovery resources. Thats where care coordination comes in.

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In the Name of ‘Modernization,’ Newsom Admin. Wants to Disappear Unhoused and Disabled People From the Streets

Mad in America

The law empowers family members, social service providers, police, and first responders to refer primarily unhoused people diagnosed with schizophrenia or other severe mental illnesses to a regime of civil courts that would compel them to accept a ‘care plan’ handed down by a judge.

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The Great Grey Beast

Mad in America

The responsible thing to do would have been to keep me a ward of the state, transfer me into Adult Social Services, and ensure that I was released only after I had demonstrated an ability to provide for myself. Just because I had a month of good behavior did not suddenly make me cured.

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The Maryland Psychiatric Society

About Sheppard Pratt: Consistently ranked as one of the top national psychiatrist hosptials for more than 30 years, Sheppard Pratt is the nations largest private, nonprofit provider of mental health, substance use, special education, developmental disability, and social services.

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University of Bern to Launch Global Mental Health Research Center in Collaboration with WPA

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

Other collaborators include the Swiss Brain Health Initiative and the University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Bern (UPD).