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Calendar Year 2004 Documents:
(July 12, 2004) Two DMH/MR Youth Programs Selected As National Model
(April 14, 2004) Children’s Mental Health Week In Alabama Is May 14-21
(March 22, 2004) March Is Designated As Mental Retardation Awareness Month
(January 27, 2004) January Is Birth Defects Prevention Month
Calendar Year 2003 Documents:
(November 25, 2003) DMH/MR Awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant
(November 13, 2003) Operation Santa Claus (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
(September 23, 2003) Current Annual Report '01-'02 (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
(September 4, 2003) National Alcohol And Drug Addiction Recovery Month
(July 2, 2003) Commissioner Delivers Plan And Alternate Proposals To The Governor
(June 13, 2003) Department DMH/MR Certified For Conformity To HIPAA Privacy Standards
(May 23, 2003) DMH/MR Commissioner Sawyer Completes Consolidation And Closure Meetings
- (April 30, 2003) Alabama DMH/MR Office Of Consumer Empowerment To Train People With Disabilities To Speak For Themselves
(November 25, 2003) DMH/MR Awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant
(November 13, 2003) Operation Santa Claus (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
(September 23, 2003) Current Annual Report '01-'02 (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
(September 4, 2003) National Alcohol And Drug Addiction Recovery Month
- (April 29, 2003) Governor Bob Riley Declares May 3-9 As Alabama’s First Ever Children’s Mental Health Week
- (April 29, 2003) Alabama DMH/MR Officials To Address Children’s Mental Health Needs At 2nd Annual Alabama Family Ties Conference
- (April 22, 2003) Commissioner’s Plan For Realignment Of Services
- (April 8, 2003) April Is National Autism Awareness Month
- (April 3, 2003) National Alcohol Screening Day
- (March 28, 2003) April is National Alcohol Awareness Month
- (March 21, 2003) Dealing With The Stress Of War
- (March 7, 2003) March Marks Mental Retardation Awareness Month
Calendar Year 2002 Documents:
- (December 20, 2002) New Office Of Consumer Empowerment Gives Alabamians With Mental Retardation And Developmental Disabilities More Power
- (December 20, 2002) Alabama Mental Health System Attracts Leading Authority To Direct The New Office Of Deaf Services
- (November 22, 2002) Alabama Hosts First Annual National Association of Developmental Disabilities Conference in Point Clear
- (November 19, 2002) MHA, DMH/MR & Civic Leaders Kick-Off OPERATION SANTA CLAUS
- (November 1, 2002) Our Kids
- (September 27, 2002) Voting Initiative Task Force
- (September 27, 2002) Mental Illness Awareness Week
- (September 25, 2002) Educators Representing 14 Schools Receive Training on the “Breaking the Silence” Curricula in Selma, Alabama
- (September 20,2002) Charley Pell 2nd Annual Memorial Golf Benefit
- (September 20,2002) DMH/MR Updated General Information
- (September 13, 2002) Breaking the Silence Curricula in Public Schools
- Department's Annual Report, '00-'01 (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
- (August 15, 2002) Depression Awareness For Students
- (July 26, 2002) Mary Starke Harper Geriatric Psychiatry Center Awarded Accreditation From Joint Commission
- (July 26, 2002) Our Kids
- (July 19, 2002) New Living at Home waivers for mentally disabled persons
- (July 12, 2002) Expansion of Services for Substance Abuse Detoxification
- (July 12, 2002) Expansion of Mental Health Juvenile Court Liaisons
- (May 10, 2002) DMH/MR Chief Highlights Two National Health Observances
- DMH/MR Officials, Consumers Excited About Upcoming Statewide Conference
- DMH/MR To Celebrate National Patient Recognition Week
- DMH/MR Chief Names New Facility Director
Calendar Year 2001 Documents:
- DMH/MR Chief Lauds Officials For Supporting Mental Health Worker Pay Range Increase
- DMH/MR Officials Urge Alabama Tornado Victims To Seek Mental Health Treatment In Wake Of Recent Disaster
- Taylor Hardin Secure Medical Facility Celebrates Twenty Years Of Service To Alabama
- Media Advisory for Operation Santa Claus 2001 Reception and News Conference
- Historical Youth Survey To Be Conducted
- Mental Illness Awareness Week 2001
- DMH/MR Establishes Office Of Children’s Services
- Voice and Vision 2001 Showcases Talents of Alabamians with Disabilities
- DMH/MR, DSS Partner to Bring Hope to Alzheimer’s Caregivers
- DMH/MR Chief Urges Citizens To Seek Mental, Emotional Support In Wake Of Terrorist Acts Against U.S.
- DMH/MR Officials Discuss Jama Medical Student Survey
- Voice And Vision 2001
- Annual Alzheimer’s Conference will offer New Information, New Hope
- DMH/MR Officials Discuss Binge Drinking
- Success Story: Charles
- DMH/MR: Reducing Spiraling Costs for Prescription Drugs, Maintaining Quality Care
- DMH/MR Chief To Address Alabama Press Association
- DMH/MR Commissioner Discusses Post Partum Depression
- DMH/MR Chief Lauds State Medical Group For Policy Support
- Success Story: Lewis Fincher
- Success Story: Crystal
- May Is Older Americans Month
- Annual Conference For Mental Health Consumers Bigger, Better Than Ever
- Alabama DMH/MR Highlights Children’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
- DMH/MR Officials Discuss Dangers Of Psychedelics
- Surgeon General, Others to Honor Alabama Native Mary Harper
- Statewide Community Education Campaign "We are Alabama, Get to Know Us"
- Substance Abuse Discussed During Inhalants Awareness Week
- Sawyer, Bright Tour Community Program During Mental Retardation Awareness Month
- NAMI Announces Documentary On Schizophrenia
- DMH/MR Official Inducted into the Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
- Caregivers For Alabama’s Baby Boomers
- DMH/MR Launches Speaker’s Bureau
- Prompt Treatment For Mental Health Needs Highlighted During Wise Health Consumer Month
- Consumer And Ex-Patient Talents Highlighted During National Patient Recognition Week
- DMH/MR Chief Urges Minority Populations To Seek Mental Health Treatment
- Study Shows Youth Smoking May Cause Anxiety Disorders
Calendar Year 2000 Documents:
- COMMISSIONER SAWYER Discusses the Dangers of Road Rage
- DMH/MR Chief Discusses Seasonal Affective Disorder
- COMMISSIONER SAWYER Receives Eli Lilly 2000 Award
- DEMENTIA CONFERENCE Draws Record Attendance
- Press Release - Visionary Guild Art Display
- Invitation - Visionary Guild for Mentally Ill Artists
- Geriatric Experts To Offer Training To Caregivers Of Alzheimer’s, Other Dementia Patients
- COMMISSIONER SAWYER Alerts Parents To Dangers Of "Club Drugs"
- COMMISSIONER SAWYER Promotes Therapeutic Recreation Week
- COMMISSIONER SAWYER Gives Facts About Schizophrenia
- Announcement-Board of Trustees Meeting-June 21, 2000, 10am
- COMMISSIONER SAWYER Lauds Department's Bureau of Special Investigations
- COMMISSIONER SAWYER STATES IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY COUNSELING
- Governor Siegelman’s Proclaimation as May 4 CHILDHOOD DEPRESSION AWARENESS DAY
- Governor Siegelman’s Proclaimation as May 3 NATIONAL ANXIETY DISORDERS SCREENING DAY
- Governor Siegelman’s Proclaimation as MAY AS MENTAL HEALTH MONTH IN ALABAMA
- Links to all Departmental documents relevant to the Wyatt Settlement (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
- Wyatt Case Settlement in MicroSoft Word format
- Press Release, Wyatt Case Settlement, January 2000
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