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Subject: Mental Health/Congress
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On February 8 2000, Danielle Steel testified in front of congress on
behalf of her late bipolar son who completed suicide at the age of 19.
 Could you please help me find out who also testified to congress
regarding mental health issues on this day?  The following is a site
containing her testimony for your reference:
http://www.bpkids.net/learning/reference/articles/07-26-02.htm

Thank you.
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Subject: Re: Mental Health/Congress
Answered By: czh-ga on 19 Feb 2004 12:47 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello lizwolfe-ga,

According to the Congressional Record, eight people testified about
suicide that day. I?ve provided you with the testimony for the
witnesses whenever possible and for the ones that the entire testimony
is not readily found I?ve provided links that will tell you why they
are considered experts on suicide.

I wish you well for your project.

~ czh ~

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COMMITTEE MEETING 2/8/00 ? SUICIDE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION
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http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/senatebibs/106dgst2.htm
http://star.xq23.com/cr106/r106d08fe0.html.html
106th Congress: Congressional Record Daily Digest
Tuesday, February 8, 2000
Daily Digest  -- [Page: D61]  -- Senate
Committee Meetings

SUICIDE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION 
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education concluded hearings on suicide awareness and
prevention issues, after receiving testimony from David Satcher,
Surgeon General/Assistant Secretary for Health, Susan Blumenthal,
Assistant Surgeon General/Senior Science Advisor, Office of Public
Health and Science, and Steven E. Hyman, Director, National Institute
of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, all of the Department
of Health and Human Services; John Mann, American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention, New York, New York; John Fildes, University of
Nevada School of Medicine Trauma Institute, Las Vegas; Kay Redfield
Jamison, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.; Jade
Smalls, Evanston, Illinois; and Danielle Steel, San Francisco,
California.


David Satcher
Susan Blumenthal
Steven E. Hyman
John Mann 
John Fildes 
Kay Redfield Jamison 
Jade Smalls
Danielle Steel 


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DAVID SATCHER
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http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t000208a.html
Testimony on Suicide Awareness and Prevention by David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D. 

Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General
Office of Public Health and Science
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 
Before the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor,
Health and Human Services, Education
February 8, 2000 


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SUSAN BLUMENTHAL
================

http://www.illinoispsychiatricsociety.org/mind-matters/ips00may.pdf
Mental Health, A Report of the Surgeon General


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STEVEN E. HYMAN
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http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t000208b.html
Testimony on Suicide Awareness and Prevention by Steven E. Hyman, M.D. 

Director, National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Before the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor,
Health and Human Services, Education
February 8, 2000 


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JOHN MANN
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http://www.afsp.org/research/congress.htm 
Dr. John Mann presents AFSP's suicide prevention policy to senate
committee, stresses treatment research

At a Senate Committee hearing on suicide prevention held by the Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee in Washington in
February, 2000, J. John Mann, MD, Chair of AFSP's Scientific Council
presented a comprehensive plan for the research, education, and
treatment needed to prevent suicide. Testimony was also heard from
Surgeon General David Satcher; Dr. Kay Jamison, AFSP Scientific
Advisory Council Member; Dr. Steven Hyman, Director of NIMH; Danielle
Steele, author and survivor; and Jade Smalls, Miss America 2000's
First Runner-up.  In addition to the text of his remarks, which
follow, Dr. Mann also distributed AFSP's suicide prevention policy
statement which can be read here.


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JOHN FILDES
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MINUTES OF THE SENATE Committee on Human Resources and Facilities
Seventy-second Session
March 7, 2003
The Senate Committee on Human Resources and Facilities was called to
order by Vice Chairman Barbara Cegavske, at 11:22 a.m., on Friday,
March 7, 2003, in Room 2135 of the Legislative Building, Carson City,
Nevada.

John Fildes, M.D., Principal Investigator, Suicide Prevention Research
Center, University of Nevada School of Medicine


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KAY REDFIELD JAMISON
====================

http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=Press_Release_Archive&template=/contentmanagement/contentdisplay.cfm&ContentID=5761
NAMI's Interviews With Danielle Steel & Kay Jamison Provide Advance
Glimpse Of Tuesday Hearing

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375701478/qid=1077221997/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-2281325-9513502
Night Falls Fast : Understanding Suicide

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/068483183X/qid=1077222032/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/104-2281325-9513502
TOUCHED WITH FIRE: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679763309/ref%3Dnosim/ticc962/104-2281325-9513502
An Unquiet Mind : A Memoir of Moods and Madness

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) held its Fourth Annual
Research Roundtable on June 19, 2000, at the Capital Hilton Hotel in
Washington, DC.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/research/roundtable.cfm 
An Understanding of Suicide 

Speaker: Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D, author and Professor of
Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Jamison emphasized that living with thoughts of suicide can
undermine, devastate, and destroy personality. Reading from the
prologue of her book, Night Falls Fast, she recalled that  in her
senior year of high school, she perceived suicide as the solution to
an unendurable level of mental pain. Though gradually the depression
lifted, it returned in later years. As a 28-year-old junior faculty
member with damaging mania and psychotic depression, she took a
massive dose of lithium and nearly died.


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JADE SMALLS
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http://web.nami.org/youth/jadesmal.html 
Miss Illinois spends year's reign advocating for mental health awareness 

When a close friend of Miss Illinois 1999, Jade Smalls, committed
suicide, the pageant winner felt a very deep loss. On February 8, the
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, Education, and Related Agencies held a hearing on suicide
prevention that included testimony from Jade. She spoke of the
immediate need to educate youth about mental illnesses that can lead
to suicide when not detected early and treated appropriately.


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DANIELLE STEEL
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http://www.bpkids.org/learning/reference/articles/07-26-02.htm
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/steel/senatetestimony.html
Transcript of Danielle Steel's testimony before the United States
Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and
Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, on the topic of
Suicide Awareness and Prevention, February 8, 2000

http://www.metrog.com/crusader/0107.html
Suicidal Tendencies
"His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina," by Danielle Steel, 1998,
Delacorte Press.


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OTHER PUBLICITY ABOUT HEARINGS 
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http://web.nami.org/pressroom/20000218_suicide.htm
February 8, 2000 
Statement by Laurie Flynn, Executive Director, 
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health,
Human Services &d Related Agencies


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lizwolfe-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
Thanks!  This was very helpful--cheers czh!

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