by Jack Carney | May 21, 2012 | Mad In America
Captain Boycott was the British land agent for Lord Erne of County Mayo who, in 1880, was ostracized from the local community as part of the Irish Land League’s campaign for agrarian tenants’ rights. Rather than harvest Lord Erne’s crops, his tenants let them rot in...
by Jack Carney | May 17, 2012 | Mad In America
Sixteen million dollars are sitting in Albany, waiting to be converted into fifteen hundred apartments for adult home residents presumed to have serious mental illnesses. The task for CIAD – the Coalition of the Aged and Institutionalized Disabled – and its allies is...
by Jack Carney | Apr 17, 2012 | Mad In America
If you log onto the website of the New York State Office of Mental Health at www.omh.ny.gov, you’ll find out that less than three thousand individuals are hospitalized at any one time in the State’s ancient state mental hospitals, euphemistically known for the past...
by Jack Carney | Apr 7, 2012 | Mad In America
Just a few final words on this issue. One of the readers of the blog I posted on March 27 on madinamerica.com identified himself as an experienced social worker working as a program director. In response to the question posed in the post’s title “1984 & DSM5...
by Jack Carney | Mar 27, 2012 | Mad In America
Where are the social workers? Where are the NASW and its local and state-wide chapters? For that matter, where are the peer-run and -led advocacy and service organizations? Over 12,000 individuals, mental health professionals and other stakeholders, have publicly...
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