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Executive Director Jim Preis describes MHAS’ 2008 Annual Celebration. On Thursday, September 25, Mental Health Advocacy Services held our Annual Celebration at the offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. With a spectacular view of the Hollywood Hills and the panorama of downtown buildings from the 53rd floor, more than 150 guests enjoyed great food, wonderful wine, and inspiring speeches by our honorees... Click here to read more
Students with mental health disabilities are inappropriately dismissed and suspended from schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) because of the schools’ failure to provide them with needed mental health assessment and treatment. As a Skadden Fellow at MHAS, I represent students subject to disciplinary proceedings to ensure that they receive psychiatric and behavioral support services to address their disabilities.... Click here to read more MHAS’ Summer Clerk program gives law students unique opportunities to work in the Los Angeles legal system. Each summer, a dedicated group of aspiring attorneys joins the team at Mental Health Advocacy Services to partner with our staff and gain experience working with clients, participating in litigation, and doing research and writing for real cases. Working in public interest law is both rewarding and challenging, and a summer at MHAS can have a profound impact on these students’ career choices. “The best part of my experience was having real responsibility over important legal matters. I got valuable research and writing experience and client contact from the very first day,” says 2008 Clerk Alona Metz, a student at UCLA Law... Click here to read more
MHAS Staff attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow Greg Pleasants describes his work to provide legal support for detained immigrants with mental and developmental disabilities. “Why do they want to send me to Mexico? I don’t know nothing about Mexico, and… and, my Mom and Dad and brothers are all here…how would I live there?” I had met Rob a few weeks earlier as part of MHAS’s Immigration Detention Advocacy Project’s focus on representing non-citizens in deportation proceedings who have mental or developmental disabilities. Now Rob sat across from me under the harsh fluorescent lights of the detention center visit room, frustrated and afraid, facing deportation from his home and especially vulnerable because his developmental disability prevented him from understanding his situation... Click here to read more |
MHAS’ New Skadden Fellow, Ruth Cusick,
talks about her work to help kids with mental disabilities stay in school and
receive the services that will help them succeed.
