Bipartisan Task Force on Gun Violence Prevention and Children's Safety
 
A Safer Connecticut

Mental Health Services Working Group
Public Hearing Testimony January 29, 2013

  • Aaron Kimpton
  • Aaron Kimpton2
  • Abby Anderson, ED - CT Juvenile Justice Alliance
  • Abby Anderson, ED of the CT Juvenile Justice Alliance
  • Absolute Services - CT
  • Academic Article Submission 1
  • Access to Firearms by People with Mental Illness - APA Resource
  • Adam Pacchiana - Newtown CT
  • Alexander Fattoruso - Norwalk CT
  • Alfred Jessel - New Haven CT
  • Alice Forrester, Exec Dir, Clifford Beers Clinic
  • Alice Stokes - Southport CT
  • All Our Kin Organizational Testimony
  • Alternative Parent Support Services (APSS) Summary Proposal
  • Alyssa Goduti - VP for Business Development and Communications at Community Health Resources
  • American Psychiatric Association (APA) - National Testimony
  • Amy Gibson - Bridgeport CT
  • Amy Vignone
  • Andrew Marocchini
  • Andrew Schneider - Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut.
  • Andrew Schneider, ED - ACLU CT
  • Andrew Woods - ED of Hartford Communities That Care - Hartford CT
  • Ann Godzwon - Ridgefield CT
  • Ann Nelson and Carolyn Goodrich - Branford CT (NAMI)
  • Annette Deonarine - Advocacy Unlimited
  • Annonymous - East Hartford
  • Annonymous - Newtown
  • Annonymous - Stamford CT
  • Annonymous Resident - Newtown CT
  • Annonymous1
  • Antonio Sanchez (Testimony on HB5840)
  • Antonio Sanchez
  • APA News Release Regarding NRA Comments
  • APSS Operations Flow Chart
  • Articles and Data on Gun Violance
  • Barbara A. Lockhart - President of the CT Youth Services Association
  • Barbara Bloom - Sandy Hook CT
  • Barbara Gerbe
  • Barry Simon, CEO - Gilead Community Services
  • Beatriz Delgado - Norwalk CT
  • Ben Parady - Unionville CT
  • Bert Begin - Canton CT (copy 3)
  • Bert Begin - Canton CT (copy 4)
  • Bert Begin - Canton CT (copy 5)
  • Bert Begin - Canton CT 2
  • Bert Begin - Canton CT
  • Bethy Guiles-Smith
  • Bill Heyde
  • Bill Hillman - Bethel CT
  • Bill Hillman
  • Bill Shortell
  • Billy Bromage - New Haven CT
  • Birgitta Stone - Ridgefield CT
  • Bob Nield LCSW
  • Bob Tower - South Windsor CT
  • Bonnie Fisco
  • Brian Bergin
  • Brian C. Owens
  • Brian Cooper - Somers CT
  • Brian Lord 2
  • Brian Lord
  • Carl Schiessl, Director of Regulatory Advocacy for the Connecticut Hospital Association
  • Caroly Gibson
  • Carolyn Drazinic, MD.- Pres., CT Psychiatric Society
  • Catherine Summ - Newtown CT
  • Cathie
  • Cathy DePorte - South Windsor CT
  • Cathy Robinson - Sandy Hook CT
  • Cathy Roche, LMFT - Newtown CT
  • Charles Watson - Barkhamsted CT
  • Cheri Bragg Acker
  • Chief Marc Montminy and Karen Hanley - Manchester CT
  • Chief of Police Marc Montminy - Manchester CT
  • Child First Fact Sheet
  • Chris Brancato - Torrington CT 2
  • Chris Brancato
  • Chris Cosgrove - New Milford CT
  • Chris Garrahan, MSW
  • Christine Limone - NASW CT Chapter
  • Christine Stowe, LCSW - Newtown CT
  • Christopher Coniam - Manchester CT
  • Christopher Duffy
  • Christopher O'Brien - Wolcott CT 2
  • Christopher O'Brien - Wolcott CT
  • Chuck Cummings, MSW - CT Chapter NASW
  • Claudette Pirruccio
  • Connecticut State Medical Society
  • Corinne Miller
  • Dan - Middletown CT
  • Daniel and Christel Kormanik - Newtown CT
  • Daniel Yungk - Stonington CT
  • Daniela Giordano, Public Policy Director - NAMI CT
  • Darcy Lowell - Child First, Inc.
  • Darcy Lowell, MD - Child First
  • Dave French
  • David Godbout
  • David Stowe - Newtown CT
  • David Woodworth
  • David Z. Freedman - Newtown CT
  • Deborah Hoyt, President and CEO - the Connecticut Association for Healthcare
  • Deborah Low, Superintendent of Ridgefield Public Schools
  • Deborah R. Hoyt, President, CEO The CT Association for Healthcare at Home (corrected copy)
  • Deborah Strong - Simsbury CT
  • Debra Sourby - Newtown CT
  • DeEtta G. Breitwieser 2
  • DeEtta G. Breitwieser
  • Denise Buzy-Pucheu (Correia) - Sandy Hook CT
  • Diane Samples - New Fairfield CT
  • Dilip Jeste, MD - APA President
  • Don Troiani - Southbury CT
  • Donna Krupa
  • Dorothy Blaustein - Fairfield CT
  • Dorothy Nevas Freedman - Weston CT
  • Douglas S. Fuchs, Chief - Redding Police Dept.
  • Douglas W. Parkhurst - New London CT
  • Dr. J. Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Jane Hylan, and Alison Cleary Urban, LCSW, of Community Health Center, Inc.,
  • Dr. John Foley - CSMS
  • Dr. Karen Kangas - Advocacy Unlimited, Inc
  • Dr. Ted Zanker - CSMS
  • Edward R. Johnson - Groton CT
  • Elaine Zimmermann, ED - CT Commission on Children
  • Elizabeth Mais
  • Eric Arzubi, MD
  • Eric Daske - Vernon CT
  • Erin Nikitchyuk - Sandy Hook CT
  • Evan Kelly - West Haven CT
  • Ezra Griffith, Dr. - Yale School of Med, - Psychiatry
  • Fedele N. Volpe
  • Fran Merante
  • Frank J. Mongillo, II, MD - New Haven CT
  • Gail B. MacDonald - Pawctuck, CT
  • Gary Michael Grabko
  • Gary Steck, Chair - CT Community Providers Association
  • George Oleyer - Oxford CT
  • George Walsh - Barkhamsted CT
  • Georgia Monaghan - Sandy Hook CT (copy)
  • Georgia Monaghan - Sandy Hook CT
  • H. Thomas Brant, VP of the CT Association of School Psychologists
  • Harold Douglas - New Britain CT
  • Harold I. Schwartz, M.D.
  • Harrison DeStefano - Wilton CT
  • Helen Earnshaw - Sandy Hook, CT
  • Henry Quarti
  • J D McGaughey - Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities
  • J Mc - CT
  • J. Dewey Manufacturing
  • James & Marie Bouderau - Clinton CT
  • James Accomando - President of Connecticut Parent Teacher Student Association
  • James E. Stone, Sr. - Vernon CT
  • James L. Miller - Salem CT
  • James P. Cooney, LCSW
  • Jamey Bell, Acting Child Advocate - Office of the Child Advocate
  • Jan VanTassel, CT Legal Rights Project - 1
  • Jan VanTassel, CT Legal Rights Project - 2
  • Jane M. Slupecki - Union CT
  • Janet Auster - Advocacy Unlimited
  • Janet Marchand - Greenwich CT
  • Janette Phillips, Clinton, CT
  • Janette Phillips
  • Janine Fay, CEO - VNA Community Healthcare
  • Janine Sullivan Wiley - NW Regional Mental Health Board
  • Jason Cole - Stamford CT
  • Jay E. Sicklick, Esq. - Deputy Director, Center for Children's Advocacy
  • Jefferey Dudley - Milford CT
  • Jeffrey Jainer - Woodbridge CT
  • Jennifer Parzych, Mid-Level VP of the CT School Counselor Association
  • Jesse White-Frese, Exec Dir, School Based Health Centers
  • Jessica Wolf, PhD.
  • Jillian Gilchrest, Asst. Policy Director - CT Association for Human Services
  • Joan Letendre, PhD., LCSW
  • Joann A. Price, MD - Oakville, CT
  • Joanne Beardsley
  • Joellen Lawson - Newtown CT
  • Joette Katz, Commissioner of DCF
  • John Alfonso - West Haven, CT
  • John and Betty Oakes
  • John Erickson - Avon CT
  • John J. Bear - Colchester CT
  • John Lewis - Valley Social
  • John Mehm - Former CPA President
  • John White - Cheshire, CT
  • Joseph Ament - Colchester CT
  • Joseph Loschiavo - Milford, CT
  • Josh Haskell - ABC News NY (not testimony)
  • Joshua Seavey - Stratford CT
  • Joyce Fostini
  • Judge Robert Killian, Jr - Htfd Probate Court
  • Judith Barr - Brookfield, CT
  • Judith Meyers & Robert Franks-CHDI 2
  • Judith Meyers & Robert Franks-CHDI
  • Judy Aron - West Hartford CT
  • Judy Aron - West Hartford CT
  • Julianne Marinelli - Shelton CT
  • Julie Rosenbaum, MD - National Physicians Alliance
  • Karen Fassuliotis - Greenwich CT
  • Karen Fischer - New London CT
  • Karen Hanley - Program Director, CHR Mobile Crisis Response Team
  • Karen Kingsley - Newtown CT
  • Kathleen Flaherty - Newington CT
  • Kathleen Laundy, Psy.D., L.M.F.T.
  • Kathleen M. Flaherty - Newington CT
  • Kathleen O'Brien
  • Kathy Queen, Ed of The Wallingford Community Day Care Center
  • Ken Swain - Sandyhook CT
  • Kenneth Spiegelman, MD - CT AAP & Dr. Mirela Loftus - CT Council Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Kerri Lynn Dirgo - Bridgeport CT
  • Kim Shine - Newtown CT
  • Kimberly Nystrom - President of New England Home Care
  • Kimberly Zemo, LCSW - Newtown CT
  • Kristen Tierney - Caregivers
  • Kristin Larson - Sandy Hook CT
  • Kristina Ragosta - Treatment Advocacy Center
  • Laura Amenta - Children's Trust Fund Council
  • Laura Amenta
  • Laura Ashers2
  • Laura Duffy, LPC - Sandy Hook CT
  • Laura Fucci - Milford CT
  • Laura Gerbe 2
  • Laura Gerbe
  • Laura M. I. Saunders, Psy.D. ABPP
  • Laura Main - Newtown CT
  • Laura Shahinian Kara M.S. L.Ac. - Westport CT
  • Laurie Ann Lima
  • Laurie Veillette
  • Lee Parker - New Haven Fellowship
  • Lee Russell - Glastonbury CT
  • Lenore Pranzo, LMFT - Redding CT
  • Leroy Gardner - Norwich CT
  • Leroy Gardner - Norwich CT
  • Leslie Busino - Newtown CT (Additional Testimony)
  • Leslie Busino - Newtown CT
  • Leslie Weinberg - Stamford CT
  • Linda Henriquez
  • Linda Jainer - Woodbridge CT
  • Ling Noonan
  • Lisa Sheridan - Sandy Hook CT
  • Lori L. Badura - Canterbury CT
  • Maggie Adair - The CT Early Childhood Alliance
  • Manuel Sandoval - New Britain CT
  • Marc Catalano - Clinton CT
  • Marcia DuFore, ED - North Central Regional Mental Health Board
  • Marcy Shinbaum - Fairfield CT
  • Marge Weiner, Director - Gateway Community College
  • Maria Ruggeberg
  • Marianne Loomis - Ridgefield, CT
  • Marjorie Wren - New Haven CT
  • Mark Daigle (2)
  • Mark Daigle
  • Mark L. Kraus, MD, FASAM and Douglas Gibson, MD - The CT American Society of Addiction Medicine
  • Mary Burnham - Newtown CT
  • Mary Stone - New Haven CT
  • Mary T. Keane - Trumbull CT
  • MaryAnn Cole
  • Mathew Hemby - Newtown CT
  • Mathew Hyde
  • Maureen A. O’Neill-Davis - ASAFER Connecticut
  • Megan Duffy - Vernon CT
  • Megan Schmidt - Hamden CT
  • Michael and Jennifer Truss - Colebrook CT
  • Michael Collins - Sandy Hook CT
  • Michael D. Wallace - Monroe CT
  • Michael Grabauskas
  • Michael Mackniak - ED of Melissa's Project and Guardian Ad litem Services Inc.
  • Michael Maddock - South Windsor CT (Banning Large Capacity Ammunition Magazines)
  • Michael Maddock - South Windsor CT (Disclosure of Names and Addresses)
  • Michael Maddock - South Windsor CT (High Capacity Firearms)
  • Michael Maddock - South Windsor CT (Liability Insurance and Sales Tax on Ammunition)
  • Michael Maddock - South Windsor CT (Liability Insurance Requirement)
  • Michael Maddock - South Windsor CT (Protection of Children and Families)
  • Michael Maddock - South Windsor CT (Requiring Maintnance and Liability Insurance)
  • Michael Maddock - South Windsor CT (Restrictions on Gun Use)
  • Michael Maddock - South Windsor CT (The Reduction of Gun Violence)
  • Michael Snyder
  • Michaela I. Fissel - Windsor CT
  • Mike Aleksandrowicz
  • Mike Papa
  • Mitzi DeMaio - Sandyhook CT
  • MS Annonymous - East Hartford CT
  • Nancy M. Stanton, MSW
  • National Development & Research Institutes, Inc.- Research Studies
  • National Mental Health Experts React to NRA Response on Newtown Tragedy
  • Nelba Marquez-Greene - Licensed Clinical Therapist, Klingberg Family Svcs
  • Nicholas Barzetti - Newtown CT
  • Nicholas Lupacchino - Ashford, CT
  • Norm Robert - Bozrah CT
  • Pamela Cappiello Sweeney - Brookfield CT
  • Pamela W. Deptula - Somers, CT
  • Patricia A. Kukor, LCSW - Portland CT
  • Patricia Benedict, Director, Citizens Project
  • Patricia Corvello - Washington Depot CT (2)
  • Patricia Corvello, Washington Depot, CT
  • Patricia Droney - West Hartford CT
  • Patricia Harrity, MS - ED of CT Area Health Education Center
  • Patricia Rehmer, Commissioner DMHAS - Addendum
  • Patricia Rehmer, Commissioner, DMHAS - TESTIMONY
  • Patricia Sabato
  • Patricia Sparkman - Groton CT 1
  • Patricia Sparkman - Groton CT 2
  • Patricia Sparkman - Groton CT 3
  • Patrick Crean - Woodbury CT
  • Paul Acker
  • Paul Aurelia - Stratford CT
  • Paul Edward Zukowski - Hartford CT
  • Paul H. Dworkin, MD - CT Children's Medical Center
  • Paul Harris - Northford CT
  • Paul J. Coughlin (copy)
  • Paul J. Coughlin - related links and picture
  • Paul J. Coughlin
  • Paul J. Knierim, Probate Court Administrator - Office of the Probate Court Administrator
  • Paul Knierim - Probate Court Administrator
  • Paul Passarelli
  • Paula Seivers - Branford (replacement)
  • Peter Borkoski
  • Peter Brown - Middlefield, CT
  • Peterson
  • Philip Cypher - Plymouth CT
  • Rabbi Shaul Praver - Newtown CT
  • Rachel Basch - Sandyhook CT
  • Richard C. Clavet - Cheshire CT
  • Richard Carabillo
  • Richard G. Pugliese, M.D.
  • Richard V. Carlson - Newtown CT
  • Richard Weingarten - New Haven CT
  • Rickey P. Humpage - Old Lyme CT
  • Robert Barnes - Southbury CT
  • Robert C. Young - New Canaan CT
  • Robert D. Soule, Jr.-New Hartford CT
  • Robert Davidson - Eastern Regional Mental Health Board
  • Robert Hutchinson - Newtown CT
  • Robert M. Olson - Middletown CT
  • Robert Rowen, MD
  • Robin Forbes - Cornwall Bridge CT
  • Rosie Haas
  • Ryan Knapp - Sandyhook CT
  • Sam Mihailoff - Sandy Hook
  • Samantha Kent - Newtown CT
  • Sandra Norden - Middlebury CT
  • Sara Krolikowski - New Britain CT
  • Sarah Esty - CT Voices for Children
  • Scott Schweizer - Norwalk CT
  • Sharon Langer, JD - Voices for Children
  • Sheila Matthews - Cofounder of Ablechild
  • Some Facts About Suicide and Depression - Article
  • Stephanie Daly - Newtown CT
  • Stephen A. Karp, MSW - Executive Director - NASW - Rocky Hill, CT
  • Stephen Mendelsohn, New Britain, CT
  • Stephen Mendelsohn-New Britain CT
  • Stephen W. Larcen, Ph.D. - President & CEO, Natchaug Hospital, Windham Hospital
  • Steve Trubow - Olympic Labs - Port Angeles WA
  • Steven C Stepina
  • Susan Boritz - Sandy Hook CT
  • Susan Gallagher - Wallingford CT
  • Susan Johnson - Newington CT
  • Susan McNamara, LCSW
  • Susan Searles
  • Susan Tuz
  • Susan Wall Oleyer, MPH - Oxford CT
  • Sylvia Souza
  • Tammy Doherty - Woodbury CT
  • Teresa Craft
  • The Connecticut Association for Infant Mental Health, Inc
  • The Counselor Education Department - Fairfield University
  • The Judge David A. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • Theodus Davis - Independent Center (Waterbury)
  • Theresa M. Tovey - Chester CT
  • Thomas Burr - Glastonbury CT
  • Thomas Cameron - Newtown CT
  • Thomas E. Pinkham - Cheshire CT
  • Thomas Kuroski, President - AFT Connecticut (copy)
  • Thomas Kuroski, President - AFT Connecticut
  • Thomas Welch - Clinton, CT
  • Timothy Mulverhill (Part 1) - Sherman CT
  • Timothy Mulverhill (Part 2) - Sherman CT
  • Tinia Rodriguez - Bridgeport CT (copy)
  • Tinia Rodriguez - Bridgeport CT
  • Tom Brant - CT Association of School Psychologists
  • Tom Maloney - Voluntown CT
  • Tom Swetts - Waterbury CT
  • Traci Cipriano and Barbara Bunk, President - CT Psychological Association
  • Valerie Raggio, LCSW - Granby CT (copy)
  • Valerie Raggio, LCSW - Granby CT
  • Victoria Veltri - Office of the Healthcare Advocate
  • Vincent Roman - Torrington CT
  • Virginia Benedetto - Stratford CT
  • Vivian Batterson - Tolland, CT - Position Paper
  • Vivian Batterson - Tolland, CT - Position Statement
  • Vivian Batterson - Tolland, CT
  • Walter Reddy - Weston CT
  • Wendy Leon-Gambetta - Newtown CT
  • William Begg, MD
  • William Boylan
  • Winston B. Johnson - Director of Prevention Intervention
  • Yann Poncin, MD - Yale New Haven Health System
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