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eNewsletter - December 20, 2007
Recovery Advocacy and You Tube
Parent-to-Parent, a South Jersey based organization which assists parents with addicted children statewide, and NCADD-New Jersey continued their push for mental health and addiction parity legislation in the state by releasing a short film and press coverage of Parent-to-Parent’s successful rally at New Jersey Speaker Joseph Robert’s Brooklawn Legislative District office earlier this month. The groups hosted the short film on the website You Tube and sent an e-mail message to more than 14,000 advocates, New Jersey news outlets and all 120 New Jersey legislators in their effort to have parity legislation posted in the General Assembly before the end of the legislative session. The e-mail message can be viewed at http://www.ncaddnj.org/publicAffairs/ParityNews6b.html
Parent-to-Parent co-founders Kass Foster and Kathleen Dobbs, as well as other parity advocates, express their disappointment at Speaker Joseph Roberts’ failure to post parity legislation for a vote in the General Assembly. Foster and Dobbs and Louise Habicht and Susan Foose are the four co-founders of Parent-to-Parent; all are Moms who have experienced firsthand the struggles of seeking addiction treatment for their children. Some of them have lost their children after being denied insurance coverage. Part of Parent-to-Parent’s mission is to have New Jersey enact addiction parity legislation after addiction treatment was removed from what became New Jersey's partial parity law in 1999. That law covers serious biologically-based illnesses.