Sentences with phrase «mental health lobby»

The ideas have been pushed by the mental health lobbies and by individuals who either don't understand or don't care about some higher priorities.

Not exact matches

It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.

Our meeting at the HQ of PR and lobbying firm Portland, where Campbell works part - time, comes 10 weeks after the prime minister's big speech pledging to tackle the «stigma» around mental health problems.

«Every mental health organization in the country disapproves of conversion therapy,» said Shurka, 29, a New York City resident who travels the country to lobby for efforts to ban gay conversion therapy as part of the #BornPerfect campaign.

Several mental health organizations gathered inside the lobby at Buffalo City Hall to promote the month.

While the response from the gun lobby has been remarkably similar — blaming the massacre on mental - health issues, advocating for policemen or armed teachers in schools as well as the need for «good guys with guns» — they have a new kind of adversary.

In 2016 Martin founded and funded a new charity, the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, to research, lobby and innovate policies to try to break the toxic relationship between mental health issues andHealth Policy Institute, to research, lobby and innovate policies to try to break the toxic relationship between mental health issues andhealth issues and debt.

The organization has been responsible for training hundreds of attorneys, mental health professionals and financial professionals in the process, and worked to lobby for the passage of the Uniform Collaborative Family Law Act, which expanded the understanding of the ethical and effective practice of collaborative law.

President Donald Trump and the gun lobby's servants in Congress have cast the slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a mental health issue.

«Nowhere is this problem thrown into sharper relief than in Florida, where Governor Rick Scott has complied with the gun lobby's every wish, speaking at the NRA convention and even signing legislation that prevented doctors and mental health professionals from addressing threats relating to firearms with their patients.»

State lobbying efforts for legislation affecting mental health counselors and their clients

CWLA services include: advocating for children's mental health issues; lobbying for key legislation affecting welfare of children; and adoption advocacy.

This follows in line with psychology and other mental health trade organizations» promotion and lobbying for more and more business in the family courts over the past two decades, performing a panoply of various and sundry services such as non-lawyer mediation, «parenting plan development», acting as case managers or special masters or «parenting coordinators», doing custody evaluations, opining as litigant - hired expert witnesses and consultants, managing supervised visitation centers, teaching parenting classes, and so forth.

Again good mental health professionals need to lobby for strong ethical standards that forbid their colleagues to make promises or imply that their treatment will change men's behavior.