This ad developed by PEF's Public Relations Department, appeared in The Legislative Gazette, the Queens Chronicle, the Rockland Review and the Buffalo Metro Community News during February and March.
A prescription for disaster:
Combining children’s and adult mental
health facilities is bad medicine.
It’s a misdiagnosis of treatment for our children.
The President of the Board of Visitors for the Rockland
Children’s Psychiatric Center calls the proposed
consolidation,“...a giant step backward. The
treatment of our most precious resource, our children,
particularly the vulnerable and unfortunate ones, is
reflective of our society’s priorities.”
The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
policy statement calls for treatment of children and
adolescents in programs that are “...physically
distinct from programs for adult psychiatric patients.”
Legislators — don’t sign this prescription.
It’s bad medicine.
'Fight Back' PEF Ad campaign 2001