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January 3rd, 2024

Cartwheel receives $20 million for school mental health

By Eileen Weber

Company provides quick access to telehealth care

It should be no surprise that the mental health of children and adolescents was hit hard by the pandemic. But...

January 2nd, 2024

Proposed legislation would ban aversive therapy in Massachusetts

By New England Psychologist Staff

Judge Rotenberg Center uses, defends practice

Opponents of the use of electric shock therapy to treat severe behavioral...

July 1st, 2023

Two states, same problem: Staffing shortages plague industry

By Eileen Weber

Mass. and RI weigh in on nationwide dilemma

The mental health field has been hit hard with the nationwide staffing shortage that has impacted physicians,...

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 the state’s hospital emergency rooms, some patients wait more than a...

February 5th, 2023

Mass. DOC, DOJ reach agreement on mental health reform

By Christina P. O'Neill

Massachusetts prisoners with behavioral health problems will receive heightened levels of care while in custody of the state Department of Corrections (DOC), under an agreement...

January 10th, 2023

Report outlines ways to expand, diversify Massachusetts’ workforce

By Susan Gonsalves

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts engaged Manatt Health to create a report that identifies ways to maintain, expand, and increase diversity in Massachusetts’ behavioral...

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 passed to provide mental health sick days for public school students.

January 6th, 2023

New May Center School for Autism opens in Chicopee

By Andrew Cromarty

In September the May Institute opened its fifth May Center School for Autism and Developmental Disabilities in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The expansion came in response to the...

August 7th, 2022

Massachusetts bills, hotline focus on maternal mental health

By Eileen Weber

Earlier this year, Massachusetts legislators proposed two maternal mental health bills known as H.4740 and H.4741. The bills were passed by the House and sent to the Senate for...

May 2nd, 2022

Mass. governor aims healthcare bill at mental health parity, lower costs

By Eileen Weber

Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts has proposed a systemic health care reform bill designed to target three major areas: prioritizing primary and behavioral health care;...

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