More than 300 of his bills became law, and he played a major role in passing laws that improved immigration, cancer research, health insurance (he was a big proponent of universal health care), apartheid, disability discrimination, AIDS care, civil rights, mental health benefits, education and volunteering.

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And he believes that issues of mental health, issues of education, for example, are part of this problem and need to be addressed as part of the effort that Vice President Biden is undertaking.

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Dale Hourigan and the mayors of Bridgeport and Hartford participated, along with other experts in the fields of mental health, law enforcement and education.

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We have to look at areas of education and mental health, as well as other areas of law enforcement, areas of culture -- as was asked earlier.

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More money is needed to tackle children's mental health issues, says Guernsey's deputy education minister.

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D. is the Assistant Director for Prevention and Program Evaluation at the University at Albany Counseling Center and has served as the Principal Investigator for over six million dollars in behavioral health projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the U.S. Department of Education during the past decade.

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Ruth Berggren says that as a result, medical education is suffering in New Orleans, and many of those faculty provided much-needed mental health services that now no longer exist.

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In response to the other concerns raised in the report, it said it had introduced a "quality and safety system" into mental health services which closely monitors the standards of care on wards, including nutrition infection control and training and education, among others.

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