Legal Issues

• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law - For three decades, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has been the nation's leading legal advocate for people with mental disabilities.
• Bureau of Justice Assistance - This program funds projects that seek to mobilize communities to implement innovative, collaborative efforts that bring system-wide improvements to the way the needs of adult offenders with mental disabilities or illnesses are addressed.
• The Treatment Advocacy Center - is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating barriers to the timely and effective treatment of severe mental illness. The organization promotes laws, policies and practices for the delivery of psychiatric care and supports the development
• National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advanced Directives - Document specific instructions or preferences regarding future mental health treatment

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