Circumstance has brought him a new challenge, as an advocate on behalf of millions of people everywhere who are living with mental illnesses. It is an honor to recognize such a great person who rises to that challenge every day. My work these past few years is simply drawing upon my own knowledge and experiences in order to help other people overcome the stigma and hardship of living with mental illnesses. Our society can only improve when the public, especially the legal community, understands the life-threatening consequences a person living with mental illness faces when their path crosses the criminal justice system. Today, as a professor of law at Touro Law School and one of the founders of the Law and Psychiatry Institute, Judge Wachtler is using his knowledge of the justice system and his learned skills to reshape the way the legal community views mental illnesses.
Invitations are in the mail.
24 by Friday, October 6, 2000. According to folks at OMH, that increase will begin hitting with the next quarterly advance payment. Reinvestment, CSS, etc. The funding applies to the entire contract, not simply salaries. The 2001 payments will have that amount annualized.