Leading Stories
Union: CT staff shortage is ‘full-blown catastrophe’
By Eileen Weber
Staffing shortages in the mental health industry are an ongoing, national reality.
In Connecticut, it is reaching a boiling point with many health workers becoming...
‘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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...