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
• Marc Cranick - Columbia 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