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Document 299 of 422.

June 08, 1999, Tuesday

SECTION: News; Pg. 7

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HEADLINE: HIL, TIPPER TEAM UP HOST FORUM TO QUASH MENTAL ILLNESS

BYLINE: By KENNETH R. BAZINET Daily News Washington Bureau

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WASHINGTON The First Lady and Tipper Gore yesterday convened health experts to try to dispel the myths and stigma attached to mental illness.

The vice president's wife and veteran newsman Mike Wallace detailed their bouts with clinical depression, and experts like Dr. Harold Koplewicz, founder of the New York University Child Study Center, discussed scientific breakthroughs in the treatment of mental health.

"We must talk about mental illness in our homes, in our workplace, in our communities, with our colleagues, everywhere that we can, because we must uncover those who have it or are suffering with it and encourage them to get the help they need," Gore said. Added Koplewicz: "The real tragedy of Littleton [Colo.] and in these other recent incidents of school violence is that they're most probably preventable. . . . Unfortunately, schools and parents ignore psychiatric illness."

Juggling her dual role of First Lady and prospective Senate candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced to the standing-room-only crowd at Howard University that the National Institute of Mental Health will conduct a $ 7.3 million study to research mental illness and help teachers identify troubled students.

The White House also informed nearly 250 insurers that they must provide mental health and substance abuse coverage to federal workers. The order doesn't require congressional approval and caused the insurance industry to cry foul because of new costs.

Later, Clinton addressed a different health concern when she joined actress Mary Tyler Moore and 10-year-old Samantha Ann Mandel of Manhattan at a White House event announcing $ 120 million for a clinical trial aimed at finding a cure for Type I diabetes, known as juvenile diabetes.

Moore, Samantha Ann and about a dozen other children who attended the event live with Type I diabetes. "These are the best experts we have they have to live it every day," Clinton said.

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