The advocates, and the consent fight in court

items 9 and 10 — the family association; the screening case, with its holding

The advocates organise at the county seat, separate from the providers, as the floor requires: the family-and-citizen layer for this county is NAMI's — the National Alliance on Mental Illness's local presence, whose family support groups meet in South Bend at the Clubhouse of St. Joseph County, 1153 Northside Boulevard (family support on second Mondays in the current listing) — and the Clubhouse itself, a member-run recovery community which opened in 2015, succeeding the Sunshine Clubhouse that had closed in 2010: the advocacy-and-peer layer's own institutional course, distinct from every provider named in this section. The consent fight is this county's, and it is federal: Rhoades v. Penn-Harris-Madison. On 7 December 2004, Chelsea Rhoades, fifteen, a student at Penn High School in Mishawaka, was given the TeenScreen mental-health screening at school by Madison Center staff — without her parents' prior consent, on the family's case. Suit followed in the Northern District of Indiana (filed 19 September 2005), and the court's holding, stated at its strength, is the required fact: Judge James T. Moody denied dismissal of the parents' consent and privacy claims — the case proceeded on the ground that screening a child without parental consent states a claim the Constitution hears. It is the county's screening case entire, seated in the neighbouring city's school system and this county's designated centre's staff: a New Carlisle student's screening would have run through the same centre and the same consent question, and the leg prints the case as the local equivalent it is — the only one this county has.

Sources:

1. NAMI Indiana's affiliate listings and the Clubhouse of St. Joseph County's record (1153 Northside Boulevard; opened 2015, succeeding the Sunshine Clubhouse, closed 2010).
2. Rhoades v. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp., N.D. Ind. (the 7 December 2004 screening; suit filed 19 September 2005; Judge James T. Moody's denial of dismissal of the consent and privacy claims).