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The Carver County Board of Commissioners is looking for interested citizens to serve on the Mental Health Advisory Committee. This committee advises the County Board and the Community Social Services Department on services relating to mental health and mental illness.
STAUNTON — The Mental Health America of Augusta presented awards to area agencies and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to those with mental illness or addictions during the association's 55th annual meeting and silent auction at the Holiday Inn Golf and Conference Center.
The Mental Health Association of Morris County, located at 100 Route 46 East, Bldg. C, Mountain Lakes, is accepting bookings for the Mental Health Player’s 2008-09 performance season.
NORMAN — Hundreds of people suffering from mental illness and addiction will go untreated if the state-run Norman Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center is closed, mental health professionals say.Without help, the people will become homeless and desperate, often committing crimes and acting out in ways that affect communities, said Bonnie Dunn, who heads a transitional agency that provides after-care ...
The state Appellate Division has overturned most of a lower court’s 2008 ruling that supported a private, for-profit mental health facility accused of violating patients’ rights.
MARSHALL — Patients feeling left in the lurch by the pullout of their mental health care provider from Madison County are experiencing what the company's workers say they have felt for months.
Portland Police Chief James Craig says the mental health system in Maine is broken and something needs to be done.
In a response to complaints about long waiting times for mental health services, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to add 16 people to a treatment team.The county Behavioral Health Department will eliminate 11 job titles and add 27 more, for a net gain of 16. Most of the new jobs will be in evaluation and treatment at the Behavioral Health Department and its 11 public mental ...
The English Football Association (FA) are threatening to withdraw their £50,000 a year support for one of football's leading mental health charities, the chief executive of the Sporting Chance Clinic has told ESPN Soccernet .
PROVIDENCE -- Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin on Monday said Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy has shown "increasingly erratic and unpredictable behavior" during their escalating dispute, but said he was "not at all" referring to the congressman's well-publicized mental-health issues.
The attorney representing Fort Hood massacre suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan said today that he is considering a defense based on mental illness.
State legislators hope to save money by spending more on its most vulnerable citizens.
PEABODY, Mass.----PHC, Inc. d.b.a. Pioneer Behavioral Health, a leading provider of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services, announced today that it has been awarded a contract renewal from the Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency , the mental health agency charged with providing in-patient and out-patient services for more than 55,000 residents in Wayne County, MI.
Facing a record level of suicides in its ranks this year andincreases in cases of post-traumatic stress disorder, the U.S.Marine Corps is moving to put more mental health specialistsalongside its combat troops.
Mental health experts who work with troops back from deployment talked this weekend about the latest efforts to treat disorders.
Eleanor "Nonie" Hartwell had "unconventional views," which in her career days meant counseling people with HIV/AIDS.
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