mentalhealth
Catholics With Mental-Health Struggles Aren’t Alone| National Catholic Register
Catholics who struggle with mental illness, and their loved ones who want to help them, will soon find more formal support in the Phoenix Diocese. Bishop John Dolan has announced the launch of an office dedicated to Catholic mental-health ministry. “There are lots of people who are dealing with loved ones who are in crisis,” …
Kalamazoo-area police want closer ties with mental-health experts. Now they try to make that happen.
KALAMAZOO, MI — Police responding to a domestic dispute between mother and daughter find a distraught teenager who is cutting herself. A disruptive man in a parking lot appears to be experiencing psychotic delusions. A frantic 911 call comes from a woman worried her husband is suicidal or from someone whose family member has overdosed …
Diverse therapists provide understanding, accurate mental-health diagnoses for people of color — and more are needed: Coping Through COVID
CLEVELAND, Ohio — When licensed professional counselor Tamara Ferebee meets with her Black female clients, they talk Black girl to Black girl. There’s no need to explain why a Black person might feel anxious while driving, or how microaggressions in the workplace cause low self-esteem. They know what it’s like to open your social media …
Friends can ease mental-health stress | Western Colorado
It started about four years ago when Laurel Carpenter and Melissa Humphrey bought matching parkas and then matching comfort shoes. Soon enough, the nurses/best friends from Grand Junction found themselves with matching chihuahua-print leggings and matching hoodies with fleece-lined pockets in which they carry their matching chihuahuas. Then came the matching housecoats they exchanged for …
Bill to let mental-health counselors keep practicing clears committee
The state House Ways and Means Committee voted today to advance a bill designed to keep Michigan’s licensed professional counselors on the job without disruption. House Bill 4325 was unanimously approved to the applause of those in the room. The vote came a week after a hearing attended by dozens of counselors and their advocates …
$2.1 Million Secured to Pair Cops with Mental-Health Workers
The County of Santa Barbara just secured a $2.1 million grant to fund two new “co-response” teams in addition to the one that’s been operating for the past year. Co-response is the term used when law enforcement officers and mental-health case workers go out on patrol together, and the new grant will provide two Sheriff’s …
Oregon Public Schools’ Mental-Health Days Policy Exacerbates Crisis It Aims to Alleviate
(Pexels) How many such days do you think will be spent by students attending to a psychotic break? A new bill out of the Oregon state legislature — yes, that legislature — allows public-school students to take five excused “mental-health days” off from school over a three-month period. It makes no attempt to distinguish between, …
Greenwich police chief praises added mental-health services for cops
Gov Ned Lamont holds a bill signing ceremony at Engine 10 of the Waterbury Fire Department on June 10 to commemorate the adoption of a state law that will provide workers’ compensation benefits to police officers, parole officers, and firefighters who have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after witnessing an unnerving event in the …
Kaiser workers prepare for strike over mental-health staffing
Mental-health workers at Kaiser’s French Campus on Geary are launching a one-day strike Wednesday/10 to focus attention on the massive health-care operation’s failure to provide adequate staffing for patient needs. That that same day that 3,600 clinicians in the state will vote on a contract offer that so far is being “soundly rejected,” Justin DeFreitas, …
Family struggled to find mental-health services for Cleveland woman accused of beating mother to death with hammer
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Donna Ivy spent most of her life helping others, whether it was through her job at the United Church of Christ in downtown Cleveland or other churches throughout Northeast Ohio. In the last two years, her top priority was her daughter Dana Witcher, who first displayed signs of an undiagnosed mental illness …