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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) – In northwest Wyoming, individuals dealing with mental health concerns have few options. Distance between communities, staff shortages and a lack of residential beds for crisis patients are all barriers to both the patients and the professionals treating them. At the Governor’s Mental Health Summit, which will be held on …

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) – It’s a story you will see first on 16 News Now. A mental health professional said the community needs to work together when responding to situations like the South Bend police shooting of Dante Kittrell. John Horsley, who has been at Oaklawn for 11 years, and a clinician social worker …

The May 14 mass shooting has raised questions about trauma in the Black community and what other factors were at play, even before the shooting. BUFFALO, N.Y. — Five days after the racially motivated shooting in which 10 people were killed, investigators announced they were turning the scene over to TOPS Friendly markets. Despite the …

Liberty High School Principal Harrison Bailey III thinks every school in the country needs to address the growing mental health crisis among students. “To think that we’re going to see academic success in our classrooms without dealing with mental health concerns that override students’ ability to process, think and remember things, we’re fooling ourselves,” he …

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest assessment of the degree to which human activity is driving climate change, and multitude of ways in which climate change will create catastrophic effects if not mitigated.  The IPCC report, widely regarded as the most complete and authoritative assessment of our changing climate, …

Last week marked the end of the second legislative funnel. If a bill has not made it through full committee in the opposite chamber, it is dead (excluding Appropriations and Ways and Means bills). Human Resources Over the last five years, the Legislature has passed bipartisan mental health reform, created the state’s first …

The Importance of Addressing Workplace Stress Employers can do much more to help their employees relieve stress during the pandemic. By Reed Erickson May 07, 2021 From juggling projects to navigating conflicts with coworkers and everything in between, work can be a source of a lot of stress in our lives. April is …

The study — recently published online in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology – found that after one year, patients who received a multi-component intervention that combined community microfinance groups with group medical visits (where patients with similar medical conditions met together with a clinician and community health worker) had a 44 percent greater …

In the wake of two back to back mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder, one former U.S. Congressman is suggesting we need to do a better job of dealing with mental health issues. Tim Murphy, who is also a psychologist, tells Larry and Kevin on KDKA Radio that there are some key provisions missing from …

Plastic pollution is among the world’s most pressing environmental issues, threatening drinking water, wildlife, food supplies and more. To address this multifaceted problem, UB researchers are developing a novel set of tools that aim to reduce plastic waste and decrease the production of plastic. This includes a robotic system that relies on machine learning …