Articles, Leading Stories

January 6th, 2022

Transition programs help young adults become self-reliant

By Catherine Robertson Souter

As any parent knows, sending your nearly-adult child out into the world, whether to college, the military, or the working world, is bittersweet. While mourning the passage of...

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...

October 2nd, 2018

Benton Center retrofitted for psychiatric patients

By Phyllis Hanlon

Tags: clinical social worker, correctional detention, DCYF, mental health assessment, psychiatric patients, pyschiatrist, Roosevelt Benton Center, treatment, youth
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July 7th, 2018

School psychologists: In a class of their own

By Phyllis Hanlon

February 7th, 2018

Grants to NAMI Rhode Island fund youth programs

By Pamela Berard

Tags: adolescents, Ending the Silence, high school students, mental health awareness, mental health education programs, middle school children, middle-schoolers, NAMI Rhode Island, Parents and Teachers as Allies, youth
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February 6th, 2018

Report documents problems at Maine detention center

By Janine Weisman

Tags: forced overtime, juvenile detention center, kids, Long Creek Youth Development Center, Maine, residential facilities, self-harming behavior, suicide prevention, transgender death, understaffing, youth
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