Remembering Judi Chamberlin. Judi Chamberlin, a pioneer of the movement for the rights of all recipients of psychiatric services died on Jan. 16, 2010, at home. We are very proud to count Judi among our founding board members. For more about Judi's life click here.
Rolland & Hutchinson cases information.
Case lists of institutional and ADA class actions are available here and here.
Attorneys' fees awarded in Hutchinson case. (Feb 2010). The defendants have appealled and the case is now pending in the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Briefs will be posted as they are filed. (April 2010)
Brief filed in ADA communication and access to courts case. CPR represents the National Aphasia Association and other amici in a case in which a trial court declined to allow a victim with a communication disability to testify against a criminal defendant whom she says abused her in a nursing home. (February 2010.) Find the brief here. Argument is scheduled for May 6, 2010 in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Massachusetts Emergency Service Providers: Providers have been chosen to provide emergency psychiatric services in the community to adults who are Medicaid or DMH clients. A list of Massachusetts ESP providers is available here. These services can be provided in a person's own home during the day, seven days a week, and are intended to be recovery-oriented and strength-based. Please email info@cpr-ma.org about your experiences, good and bad with ESPs.
Review an annotated list of reported and unreported mental health related damage cases current through 2008.
Restraint and seclusion of children and adolescents in Massachusetts -- a new monograph on the complex laws regulating restraint of youth in Massachusetts.
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