Category Archives: Mental Health

In April 2018, a 36-year-old woman experiencing a mental health crisis was shot and killed by Johns Creek police officers outside her home. Continue reading →

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Carolyn Stanford Taylor(Photo: Department of Public Instruction) The coronavirus pandemic laid bare the stark inequities in access and opportunities among school children in Wisconsin, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Carolyn Stanford Taylor said Thursday in her annual State of Education address. She said she will seek additional state dollars to narrow at leastsome of those gaps, particularly in the areas of special education and mental health services, in her 2021-23 budget proposal. "Every child has been impacted in some way by COVID-19," Stanford Taylor said. Continue reading →

The COVID-19 pandemic may be stressful for many Minnesotans, leading to fear, anxiety and other strong emotions. Tai Mendenhall, an associate professor in the College of Education and Human Developments Couple and Family Therapy Program, explains how the pandemic can affect the mental health of individual people, couples and families, as well as ways they can care for their overall well-being. Q: How can the pandemic impact a persons everyday well-being Continue reading →

More and more people need mental health services in Kern County, so much so that Behavioral Health and Recovery Services plans to build two more treatment facilities on Workman Street in east Bakersfield. The two facilities, which will serve minors and adults, are meant to ease the burden on the countys mental health safety net, which officials say has reached its maximum capacity. Kern County is growing, and so not only is this expansion to help where we currently are, but to successfully plan for the future, said Robin Taylor, a deputy director at BHRS Continue reading →

The fire service industry is seeing an uptick in the number of personnel with substance use disorders and suicidal behavior. Continue reading →

We need to hunker down and get through this fall and winter because its not going to be easy, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said last week. The change in seasons has many mental health experts worried that an already tenuous landscape will worsen Continue reading →

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The nonprofit Liberties is celebrating 30 years of helping clients such as from top Andre Bell, Emma Johnson and Chris Accavitti. Photos provided by Diane VanCoppenolle Advertisement ROSEVILLE/MOUNT CLEMENS The Roseville- and Mount Clemens-based nonprofit Liberties is celebrating its 30th anniversary of aiding people in the community who have mental illness. Liberties is a peer-run organization, which means all of the staff also are diagnosed with a mental illness Continue reading →

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