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Summer 2014 In Brief Newsletter & FY 2013 Annual Report
CONTENTS
Pg 1. Letter from the President
2. About Us
 How You Can Help
3. Fighting Segregation Based
on Mental Disabilities
 Victories that empower
adults and ensure equal
education for children
 Other Current Litigation
4. Public Policy Publications
that Improve Lives
 Increasing Access to
Community-Based Housing
5.Public Policy Publications
Continued
 Connecting People with
Mental Illnesses to
Healthcare Coverage
 Other Bazelon Publications
6. Financial Information
7. Thank You, Donors!
Judge David L. Bazelon Center
for Mental Health Law
1101 Fifteen St., NW
Suite 1212
Letter from the President
The nation marked the 15th anniversary of the U.S.
Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision this summer. This was
not only an occasion to celebrate a pivotal moment in the
fight for the rights of people with disabilities, it also was a
time to appreciate the prescience of the Judge David L.
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law founders. More
than a quarter century before Olmstead, they envisioned a
legal system that goes beyond declaring what can be done to and for people
with mental disabilities. They foresaw laws and public policies that protect the
rights of these citizens and empower them to live in their own homes and
communities.
Olmstead is the foundation for much of the Bazelon Center’s work. Our
founders’ pioneering fight for the civil rights of people with mental disabilities
created the vision we strive to build upon. This joint In Brief newsletter and
Fiscal Year 2013 Annual Report highlights a few of our great successes – from
precedent-setting legal victories that directly and dramatically improve the
lives of thousands of people, to public policy advocacy and publications that
positively impact many, many more.
You will read here of cases which resulted in agreements that end the
unnecessary institutionalization of people with psychiatric disabilities and
begin their integration into communities. You also will see how we ensure that
children with emotional problems don’t fall victim to the new school
segregation that gives them separate and unequal educations. And you will
read how our advocacy and outreach efforts strengthen assets such as the
Americans with Disabilities Act and the Affordable Care Act
Our innovative agenda follows the civil rights path blazed by our founders.
Our priorities include community integration, self-determination, access to
services, success for all children, and access to courts. We’ve given only a
sampling of our work in this space. Please visit our website at
www.bazelon.org for more details and to learn how you can get involved.
We would not have achieved the successes of the past year without the
contributions you make as our partners in this vital effort. Your continued
partnership and support are essential if we are to produce even greater
successes in the future, as we are determined to do.
Washington, D.C. 20005
202-467-5730 voice
Sincerely,
202-223-0409 fax
www.bazelon.org
Robert Bernstein, Ph.D.
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e challenge
needless
segregation and open
public schools, workplaces,
housing and other
opportunities to people
with mental disabilities.
Staff (FY 2013)
*Robert Bernstein, President and CEO
Legal:
*Ira Burnim, Legal Director
*Jennifer Mathis, Director of
Programs and Deputy Legal
Director
*Lewis Bossing, Senior Staff Attorney
*Julia Graff, Senior Staff Attorney
*Emily Read, Senior Staff Attorney
Samantha Crane, Harvard Fellow
Stephanie Enyart, Skadden Fellow
*Todd Rubin, Bazelon Fellow
Policy:
*Elaine Alfano, Deputy Policy Director
*Bethany Lilly, Policy Attorney
Bonnie Milstein, Housing Policy
Director
Laurel Stine, Director of Federal
Relations
Allison Wishon Siegwarth, Policy
Analyst
Melissa Warren, National PIP
Coordinator
*Karen Smith, Executive Assistant
Communications:
* John Head, Director
Dominic Holt, Director
Development:
*Clay Braswell, Director of
Development and Operations
Mary Anne Walker, Manager of
Individual Giving
Administration:
Janet King, Controller
*Albert Archie, Operations Manager
*Lashelle Lucas, Accounts Receivable
*Current staff as of August 1, 2014
Mission and Vision
The mission of the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health
Law is to protect and advance the rights of adults and children who have
mental disabilities.
The Bazelon Center envisions an America where people who have
mental illnesses or developmental disabilities exercise their own life
choices and have access to the resources that enable them to participate
fully in their communities.
History
The Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is the nation’s
premier legal advocacy organization working on behalf of people with
mental disabilities. In 1972, forward-thinking legal scholars and
advocates founded the organization (then the Mental Health Law Project)
to secure the civil rights of people housed in institutional settings.
We have since expanded our advocacy to protecting the right to selfdetermination and securing access to needed services, so children,
adults, and older adults with mental disabilities can lead their own lives
as full members of the community.
In 1993, we renamed the organization in honor of Judge David L.
Bazelon, the federal judge whose landmark appellate decisions
pioneered the field of mental health law and whose tireless pursuit of
justice inspires our advocacy to this day.
How You Can Help
You can support the Bazelon Center’s advocacy in many ways:
1. Click on “Donate” at www.bazelon.org .
2. Contribute to the endowment for the David and Mickey Bazelon
Fellowship: Help us train a new generation of public interest legal
advocates for people with mental disabilities and ensure that the
Judge and Mickey’s legacy lives on.
3. Make the Bazelon Center a beneficiary of your planned giving.
Including the Bazelon Center in estate and retirement planning will not
only help the Center carry out its mission and contribute to your
legacy, but may also carry a tax benefit for you and your loved ones.
4. Donate stock, bonds or other appreciated assets.
5. Contribute through your workplace; some offer matching gifts to
increase the value of your gift. The Bazelon Center participates in the
Combined Federal Campaign (#11166) and a number of state
employee campaigns.
6. Join our email list, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter (all
via www.bazelon.org) for updates and action alerts.
To learn more about these and other options, please visit us at
www.bazelon.org or contact Clay Braswell, director of development and
operations, by calling 202-467-5730, ext. 315.
Thank you!
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
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Fighting Segregation Based on Mental Disability
Empower Adults to Make Life Choices; Ensure Equal Education for Children
FY 2013 saw years of work and resources the
Bazelon Center invested in important cases bear
fruit, resulting in improved living conditions for
thousands of people. We also opened new
fronts in the fight to secure the rights of
adults and children with mental disabilities.
Our attorneys helped negotiate and
implement settlements ending needless
institutionalization of people, while
providing the services and support that
enable them to participate in communities.
We filed lawsuits challenging school policies that
punish children for behavior caused by their mental
disability and segregate them in schools that provide
an inferior education.
Here are a few examples of the strides we made in
our fight for civil rights in FY 2013.
New York
The Bazelon Center and its co-counsel,
along with the U.S. Department of Justice,
negotiated a landmark settlement that
ends the needless segregation of about
4,000 residents of 23 large board-andcare “adult homes” for people with
serious mental illnesses in New York City.
A substantial number of residents had histories of
homelessness or, upon discharge from psychiatric hospitals,
had no other place to live. The settlement for O’Toole v
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The Bazelon Center’s website includes detailed information about our work in New York, Illinois and
Massachusetts, as well as other litigation we are pursuing, such as:
A.J. v. Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools and District of Columbia Public Schools—an Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA) due process complaint that resulted in a temporary restraining order proceeding in federal
court after the defendants refused to comply with an administrative judge’s order returning our client, an elementary
school student with a mental health disability, to the charter school. Our victory drew attention to systemic issues
concerning charter schools’ obligations under the IDEA and a public school system’s responsibility to ensure
compliance with those obligations.
Amanda D. v. Hassan (formerly Lynn E. v. Lynch)—seeks to protect New Hampshire residents with serious mental
illnesses who are — or are at risk of being — institutionalized in state-run facilities due to the state's failure to
provide community-based mental health services.
District of Columbia Charter Schools—a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Justice against the District of
Columbia’s charter schools for discriminating against students with mental health disabilities.
Florida v. HHS—the Bazelon Center supports the Affordable Care Act in this case challenging the constitutionality of the
ACA’s expansion of Medicaid eligibility.
Jane Doe v. Louisiana Bar Examiners—complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice challenging onerous and
discriminatory conditions imposed on people with mental illnesses admitted to the bar. The resulting DOJ
settlement with the state brought an end to these practices.
John Doe v. Princeton—complaint with the U.S. Department of Education on behalf of a Princeton student who survived an
overdose of antidepressants and was evicted from his dorm room, banned from campus, and coerced to voluntarily
"withdraw" for one year.
Katie A. v. Bonta—implementing settlements following our challenges to California and Los Angeles’ unnecessary
institutionalization of children in the foster care system, and the state’s failure to provide Medicaid-funded
wraparound services in their homes or in therapeutic foster care settings.
John Doe v. U.S. Marshals Service—appeal to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission challenging the Marshals
Service’s exclusion of a combat veteran with PTSD from employment based simply on his diagnosis.
Montgomery Public Schools (Alabama)—a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Justice challenging the school
system’s failure to identify and provide needed services to children with mental health disabilities; the settlement
agreement, which we continue to monitor, addresses systemic problems.
Office of Protection and Advocacy v. State of Connecticut—challenges the unnecessary institutionalization of people with
mental illnesses in two nursing homes.
Troupe v. Barbour—challenges Mississippi's needless institutionalization of children and its failure to provide children with
access to home- and community-based services .
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Public Policy Publications that Improve Lives
The Bazelon Center has a long history of doing thorough research and analysis on public policy issues that
are important to people with mental disabilities. We publish our findings. The hallmark of these publications is that instead of lining the shelves of academic institutions and think tanks, they are read by people
seeking solutions to the every-day challenges faced by the people on whose behalf we work. The next two
pages provide examples of our recent publications.
A Road Map to Community Inclusion
The vast majority of people with disabilities can live in
their own homes or apartments and participate fully in
their communities if given appropriate support and
services. Yet, hundreds of thousands of individuals with
disabilities around the country are needlessly
institutionalized, isolated and
segregated from others in
their communities. A Place of
My Own: How the ADA Is
Creating Integrated Housing
Opportunities for People with
Mental Illnesses is a Bazelon
Center report that explains
how to help people get the
better lives the law says they
have every right to expect.
The report shows how the
Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA), along with the
Supreme Court’s Olmstead
decision and other legal
advances, can be powerful
tools in the hands of people
with mental disabilities and
their advocates.
The report describes what
the ADA's integration
mandate and the Olmstead
decision require, how they
have promoted the
development of supported
housing for individuals with
mental illnesses, what
supported housing should
look like, and how investment in supported housing
helps states comply with their legal obligation to
administer services to individuals with disabilities in the
most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.
A Place of My Own also includes a brief history of
deinstitutionalization, a list of key principles of
community integration and a discussion of the
advantages supported housing offers to people with
mental illnesses and to society in general.
Most importantly, the report breaks down court
decisions, laws and
regulations in ways that
make them
understandable and gives
practical advice on using
them. For example, it
discusses recent changes
in Medicaid rules and
how they give states
incentives to move away
from institutionalization
to community-based
supported housing.
It includes guidance from
the U.S. Department of
Justice and the
Department of Housing
and Urban Development.
Finally, A Place of My
Own lays out lessons
learned from settlements
Bazelon Center staff
attorneys helped to
negotiate in order to
resolve lawsuits brought
under Olmstead. These
lessons make clear what
is required by the law and
what steps must be taken
in order to be in compliance. The settlements
discussed in the report have enabled thousands of
people around the country to leave the isolation and
segregation of institutional care behind and live in a
place of their own.
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Connecting People to Healthcare Coverage
Historically, people with serious mental illnesses are
at higher risk of being among Americans who lack health
insurance. Many are too impoverished to access the
healthcare services they need and are more likely to
face homelessness,
incarceration and
hospitalization for physical
and mental health needs.
New health care coverage
opportunities in the
Affordable Care Act (ACA),
such as the Medicaid
expansion and private
coverage through the Health
Insurance Marketplaces, can
dramatically change this
scenario for people, as well as
lowering costs incurred by
state and local governments.
This will happen only if
individuals are able to enroll.
Unfortunately, there are
significant barriers that make
it challenging for people with
serious mental illnesses to
enroll.
Making the Connection:
Meeting Requirements to
Enroll People with Mental Illnesses in Healthcare
Coverage is a Bazelon Center report that discusses
effective outreach and healthcare coverage enrollment
strategies for people with serious mental illnesses and
how these strategies can be used under the
ACA. Taking steps to maximize enrollment not only
enables individuals and states to benefit from the ACA's
healthcare options, it also helps
states comply with the legal
requirements of the American with
Disabilities Act and the health care
reform law.
The ACA presents a tremendous
opportunity for people with serious
mental illnesses who until now
have not qualified for health
insurance to finally secure coverage
for the community services they
need to be successful. In spite of
this, many states have resisted
taking advantage of Medicaid
expansion. A report issued by the
American Mental Health
Counselors Association in February
2014 says almost 4 million people
with mental illnesses could be left
uninsured if states continued to
refuse to expand Medicaid under
the ACA.
Making the Connection offers
effective strategies and other valuable information for
consumers, advocates and policymakers who are
working to get states to do the right thing and provide
healthcare coverage to those who need it most.
The Bazelon Center produces publication covering a wide range of issues of interest to people with mental disabilities, from access to health care to voting rights. For a complete listing of our publication and information on how to
get them, please visit our website at http://www.bazelon.org/News-Publications.aspx. Here are a few examples of
what you’ll find there:
Campus Mental Health Guide: Know Your Rights! is a guide for students who want to seek help for mental illness or
emotional distress.
VOTE! It's Your Right: A Guide to the Voting Rights of People with Mental Disabilities explains how federal laws protect the voting rights of people with disabilities.
Staying Together: Preventing Custody Relinquishment for Children's Access to Mental Health Services explains how
to change policies that force parents to give up their children in order to get mental health services.
Arrested? What Happens to Your Benefits if You Go to Jail or Prison? explains what happens to federal benefits for
people with disabilities when they go to jail or prison.
When Opportunity Knocks: How the Affordable Care Act Can Help States Develop Supported Housing for People with
Mental Illnesses explains how the Affordable Care Act can help states expand their integrated housing opportunities
for people with mental illness.
Power in Planning: Self-Determination Through Psychiatric Advance Directives shows how to create an advance directive for mental health care and documents discussing the use of psychiatric advance directives
Summer 2014 In Brief Newsletter & 2013 Annual Report
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Financial Information
October 1, 2012– September 30,
2013
In recent years, we have
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people
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disabilities.
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designated by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) organization, making all contributions deductible on
Stephanie Enyart, Skadden Fellow
donors’ federal income tax returns. Our audited financial statements are available by request and our IRS
Todd Rubin, Bazelon Fellow
Form 990 can be accessed via www.GuideStar.org.
Policy:
Chris Koyanagi, Policy Director
How You Can Help
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So far, more than 900 individuals have either moved into
Elaine Alfano, Deputy Policy Director
new scattered-site supportive housing or have signed a lease
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virtually all adult home residents with mental illnesses can
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through state funds and HUD programs.
live in their own homes and thrive as full members of their
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successfully in Springfield’s neighborhood schools with
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training
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non-school providers.
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Thank You!
We are deeply grateful to all who provided financial support in fiscal year 2013 (October 1, 2012 – September
30, 2013)
for the Bazelon Center’s advocacy. If you believe we have made an error, please let us know. We feel
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Dominic Holt, Director of
Anita L. Allen
Nancy and Martin Willick
Kathy S. Collins
Dana BazelonCommunications
and David Frankel **
Jessica Wolf
Armand Derfner and Mary Giles
Coleman Development:
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Leon Zar
George and Susan Driesen
Patricia and
John
F.
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Clay Braswell, Director of Development
Leslie Ebert
$1-$99
James and Carla Flug
and Operations
Mary Jane England
Howard Goldman and Debra Josefchak
M. Eloise Adams
Richard and Deborah Feldman
Mary Anne
Walker, Manager
Michael Gross
and Shelley
Singer of
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Michael S. Finkle
Individual Giving
Nikki Heidepriem
Judah Ariel
William L. Foley
Deborah Turner, Administrative
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Patricia and John
Assistant
Koskinen
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Terri Langston
Administration:
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Richard May
Bazelon Trustee
Janet King, Controller
Theodore F. Gerson
for FY 2013
Susanna McBee
Harriet Goldberg and Gregory Johnson
Archie, Operations Manager
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Health
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History
How You Can Help
You can support the Bazelon Center’s advocacy in many ways:
1.
2.
Click on “Donate” at www.bazelon.org or send a gift in the enclosed envelope.
Contribute to the endowment for the David and Mickey Bazelon Fellowship: Help us train a new generation of public interest legal advocates for people with mental disabilities and ensure that the Judge and Mickey’s legacy
lives on.
3.
Make the Bazelon Center a beneficiary of your planned giving. Including the Bazelon Center in estate and retirement planning will not only help the Center carry out its mission and contribute to your legacy, but may also carry
a tax benefit for you and your loved ones.
4.
5.
Donate stock, bonds or other appreciated assets.
Contribute through your workplace; some offer matching gifts to increase the value of your gift. The Bazelon Center participates in the Combined Federal Campaign (#11166) and a number of state employee campaigns.
To learn more about these and other options, please visit our donate page at www.bazelon.org or contact Mary Anne Walker, our manager of individual giving, by calling 202-467-5730, ext. 330. Thank you!
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Michele H. Blitz
Jim Carr
John Cashman and Mary Govier
Larissa Charnock
Meredith J. Clark and William M. Deen
Burton J. Cohen
Donna M. DiPaolo
Nicole Donath and Sean Lev
William and Elizabeth Doub
Linda Doughty
Anne Vincens Duffy
Judy Ellman
Peter Fels and Nancy Helget
Russell French
Dorothy and Claire Gilbert
Richard A. Glickstein
Barbara J. Granger
Violet Greenberg
Dianne Greenley
William and Anne Guisewite
Betty Agsten Hamilton
Marjorie L. Harris
Robert B. Herman
Anonymous
Robert and Carla Horwitz
Charles Huffine
Allan Iuspa
Sara M. Jackson
Bellene Kaish
Shari and Stuart Kaplan
Gregory C. Keating
Joanne Betlem Kehr
Herbert Kelman
Karl Knobler
Bonnie Korman
David and Eleanor Korros
David Kozlowski
June B. Kress
Elizabeth S. Landis
Murray and Adeline Levine
Bernard Levinger
Lynne B. Lewin
Dorothy Lordi
Bettina Neuefeind
Dirk Neyhart
Bettina and Stephen Pollock
Angela Porter **
Alan B. Ranford
Murray and Pamela Relkin
Cathy Rickerby
Susan Rogers
Sydell Rosen
Robert L. Sadoff
Reuben H. Saideman
Elaine B. Sawtelle
Lucy Schmeidler
Steve Schwartz
Carol Joan Scott
Claire H. Shefftz
Curt and Katherine Sheldon
Milton and Mindel Shore
Marjorie A. Silver
Lizzie Simon
H. Bernard Smith
May Soll, Ph.D.
Margaret Sondler
Nancy Stark and David Siegel
Barbara Stein
Alan and Joyce Sternstein
Hazel L. Stone
Martha Stone
Lynn F. Weinberg
Ann L. Wild
Allen P. Wilkinson
Ruth Wootten
Anita Zervigon-Hakes
Sally Zinman
Sherry Zitter
Meet New Members of the Bazelon Center Staff
Alison Barkoff returns to the Bazelon Center as Director of Advocacy. Alison first worked at the Center for more than five years beginning in 2005, before serving four years as the Special Counsel for
Olmstead Enforcement in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Alison also has worked with
private civil rights law firms and public interest organizations on disability discrimination and special education cases. She clerked for judges on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Andrew Christy, our incoming Bazelon Fellow, graduated from the Georgetown University Law
Center in 2012. He has worked in two judicial clerkships, first with the chief judge of the Fairfax County
(VA) Circuit Court, and then with a magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the District of
Columbia. He also completed internships with the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Council
on American-Islamic Relations. He has published articles in the Dartmouth Law Journal and the George
Mason Law Review.
Alice Abrokwa, a Harvard Law graduate, joins the Bazelon Center as a Skadden Fellow for two years.
Following law school, Alice clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. At the Bazelon Center, she will work on direct representation, impact litigation, and advocacy to ensure that students with mental disabilities in Washington, D.C., charter
schools receive needed services in inclusive educational settings.