National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD): annually on Thursday of the first full week of April.
National Depression Screening Day (NDSD): : annually during Mental Illness Awareness Week in October.
Provides reports that evaluate each state's mental health parity implementation based on legislation, regulation, and court rulings; offers state-specific information about where consumers can find help dealing with parity violation.
A Cultural Geography of the United States and Canada The U.S. Census Bureau, due to issues related to the separation of church and state, does not ask questions related to faith or religion on the decennial census. Accordingly, there are few sources of comprehensive data on church membership and religious affiliation for the United States. Perhaps the leading organization to address this gap is the Glenmary Research Center, which publishes Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States, 2000. The following series of county-level choropleth maps, which reveals the distribution of the larger and more regionally concentrated church bodies, draws on this resource. The maps are in GIF format.
Income-Based Repayment (IBR) is a new way to make your federal student loan payments more manageable starting July 1, 2009. And if you're a teacher or work in government or at a nonprofit (501(c)(3)) organization, you might qualify for a new type of public service loan forgiveness after 10 years of eligible payments and employment.
“…formed to help ensure that the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) … is properly enforced. If you are a patient or provider who has complaints, we would like to hear from you. …we may be able to provide help in resolving your problem or point you to other resources. Your reports will also help us identify potential patterns of critical concern to federal regulators.”