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March 1st, 2024

Text line option offered by Rutland Mental Health Services Community Care Network

By Danielle Ray

VERMONT – Rutland Mental Health Services Community Care Network began offering a text line around the same time as the transition to the 988 Suicide &...

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, chats, and calls in its first year.

Launched in July 2022, the...

November 4th, 2022

Survey shows pandemic added to youth mental health struggle

By Danielle Ray

The pandemic wreaked havoc with so many lives and mental health is just one issue at the forefront with which people of all ages continue to struggle.

According to the...

October 4th, 2022

Professor Joseph Gone explores ways psychology can better serve American Indian communities

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Is psychology failing this country’s commitment to Native Americans? The United States has signed many treaties with American Indian nations over the years (many of...

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 report submitted by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention...

August 20th, 2021

MHA reports on state of mental health in America

By Phyllis Hanlon

Since 2014, Mental Health America (MHA) has collected and published data related to the status of mental health in this country.

Theresa Nguyen, LCSW, chief program...

April 12th, 2021

Five ways professionals can cope with suicide

By New England Psychologist Staff

Professionals who work in the mental health field are not immune to loss by suicide. In fact, they and professionals in every field can succumb to suicidal thoughts themselves...

April 19th, 2020

Vermont mental health services for children doubles in last two decades

By Eileen Weber

In the past two decades, the number of young people 18 and under accessing mental health services has doubled. A recent report showed that one in three children in the state...

November 4th, 2019

Lawsuit against Harvard intensifies focus on role of college mental health services

By Janine Weisman

August 28th, 2019

Research: Number of suicides continues to rise

By Susan Gonsalves

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