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For those who missed up in the morning im the Vice President of the atlantic. Have alle lighted to of you here today for the atlantic presents the shriver looking at women on the economic edge, a very, very important issue. I wanted to give a thanks again the companys and organizations that helped to make this possible. Womens nation team, maria and her staff and for American Progress and presenting underwriter the American Federation of teachers supporting underwriters, and thomsonatories reute...

Thank you for coming today. I am a resident scholar here at aei. Our discussion is on the role of and the role of the government and Mental Health policy. We typically think of Mental Health as a state responsibility. Extent it is. The federal government can have a very influential role in shaping services and policies for mentally ill patients. There are huge gaps there which fallen toll patients the street and into gel. It is heartbreaking situation. Have representative tim murphy. The Panel D...

Issues and make decisions on the 10 individual issues and compensate the veteran if theyre entitled to it as the rating decisions become as theyre made aware before to do the other. The problem with madison assistant right now today, that is very difficult to do. There are some barriers in terms of its much less efficient in the amount of time it takes our overall process to rate 10 individual issues at one each. The fixes we put in place will allow that to go significantly faster and been our i...

Awareness on how cspan covers politics and government with our Public Affairs program. 20 years later, the cspan bus continues on the road, on the campaign trail, and visiting history events, education conferences, and schools. Look for us on the road and online. You can also follow us on twitter. All brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. This winter, University Students will get a chance to join us as we hit the road for the big 12 conference tour. Secretary of state john kerry sp...

I appreciate the fact that so many people after the lack of follow through on president kennedys correct vision, he talked about more research and come up with better therapies. He talked about communitybased care. At the end of the day, people want to live with their families and in their community, not in institutions. To get there, the money never went from the institutions to provide the needed care in the community. If you look at the most successful aot connection, one makes it so successf...

Singapore and go to the u. S. To work and they never have a problem and they can stay here for long. For long. Why is there an exception to hello, im ivette torres, and welcome to another edition of the road to recovery. Today, well be talking about young adults in recovery, meeting the needs of the millennial generation. Joining us in our panel today are. Ben chin, cofounder, ptr associates, washington, dc; alison malmon, founder, active minds, inc. , washington, dc; vannasang souksavath, Ladde...

We watch people who learn to love themselves. Then they understand the freedom of gods forgiveness, and then we learn to forgive ourselves. Teen challenge has saved my life. I came through jail with no hope, and i was able to find hope in Teen Challenge. I was able to learn about god and how much he loved me. And when i left, i had learned to apply all the things i learned through the word of god to my life. When a person comes here, they are broken, theyve lost everything, they have a sense of ...

Reasons its languaged for decades. Its really the beginning that leads to incarceration and i would suggest to you that what happens beginning with the failure of the bail reform effort of 60s to achieve a constitutional right to bail. I would like to come back to that because if the Constitutional Rights can find to incarcerate, they can talk about bail. I think what is so dangerous about that moment and it came to a surface in the bail reform act of 1984, the federal law, the birth of preventa...

Alison malmon, founder, active minds, inc. , washington, dc; vannasang souksavath, Ladder Project coordinator, the institute for health and recovery, cambridge, massachusetts; jim williams, executive director, the association of Recovery Schools, houston, texas. Ben, the millennial generation goes 18 to 25yearolds, more or less. Talk to me about what are the major characteristics of this cohort . I really think our ability to connect using social media and all the other Technology Resources are ...

Recovery, or that are in treatment, to have a place to go. Was it important for you, ben . Yeah, it was absolutely, it was very, very important for me to have a place to go. Now, upon leaving treatment, the last time i was able to get into a closure recovery program, and i think for me, i know that many of the triggers for using were social, and so to have a group of friends who were also in recovery, where we could talk about what we were going through, and we could just have fun in recovery, w...