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July 30th, 2024

‘Man Therapy’ comes to Vermont

By Eileen Weber

According to the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, about 80% of suicide deaths in the U.S....

October 1st, 2023

988 Lifeline focuses on increasing awareness in second year

By Beth Negus Viveiros

Despite low public awareness, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline answered nearly five million texts,...

March 4th, 2023

Headway made, challenges continue in Mass. ER boarding crisis

By Christina P. O'Neill

Despite the passage of a state law in 2021 to address the psychiatric patient ‘boarding’ problem in...

February 5th, 2023

Maine seeks waiver for mental disease exclusion

By Andrew Cromarty

Sen. Joe Baldacci, (D-Bangor) is proposing a bill that would force the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to apply for a federal waiver to provide funds for mental...

January 10th, 2023

Residential schools: Still riding the pandemic wave

By Phyllis Hanlon

The arrival of the pandemic early in 2020 prompted residential schools to overcome significant challenges...

January 10th, 2023

Proposed legislation allows for student mental health sick days

By Danielle Ray

Legislators in Massachusetts are following the lead of other New England states in trying to get a bill...

October 7th, 2022

Brattleboro Retreat program geared toward helping mental health professionals

By Danielle Ray

Mental health crises are at an all-time high as a result of the pandemic and because of that, a new...

September 6th, 2022

Remote program for college students goes beyond crisis help to recovery

By Christina P. O'Neill

In its upending of everyday life, the COVID epidemic has also given the therapy community at the...

August 6th, 2022

Report on firearm deaths in Maine show many are suicides

By Andrew Cromarty

More than 85 percent of all firearm deaths in 2020 in the state of Maine were suicides, according to a...

June 26th, 2021

Advocates, legislators address children’s mental health crisis

By Catherine Robertson Souter

The true toll of this pandemic on the mental health of children and adolescents may take decades to fully understand. Young people can be resilient but the academic and social...