Michael Carey, the father of 13-year-old autistic Jonathan Carey who was killed while in the care of two workers of a state-run residential facility, urges the New York State Governor and legislators to reform the Mental Health Care System. The video includes news clips that demonstrate the systemic problems that exist. For more information, please visit www.jonathanslaw.org and http

Psychiatric care still has common myths associated with it. Public misconceptions about mental health care are still common.

ICFJ participant Mahmoud Tamimi investigates the state of Egypt’s mental health facilities for Egypt TV. This was apart of the International Center for Journalists’ Virtual Newsroom project that trained 40 Egyptian journalists in investigative reporting skills through a unique hands-on/online mentoring program. The focus was to train journalists how to produce and disseminate investigative reports through computer- assisted reporting, and by linking to one another through a virtual newsroom …

( www.vawatchdog.org ) From PBS News Hour, Thursday, May 1, 2008.

In Pima County Arizona Mental health services are decreasing in quality and quanity. Children are being sent out of the area because there is NO care available in this county of over 1 million people.