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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.
Hamilton County mental-health services provider BehaviorCorp. and Anderson-based Center for Mental Health Inc. have completed their merger this week. The new nonprofit corporation, Aspire Indiana, will serve residents in Madison, Hamilton, Boone and northern Marion counties.
At Bartlett’s Village Board meeting Nov. 17, Village President Mike Kellycq expressed his concerns about the patient who escaped from Elgin Mental Health Center in September.
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.
LYNN-Greater Lynn Senior Services has received a $30,000 grant from The Boston Foundation for its Elder Mobile Mental Health Project. The grant follows an initial $15,000 commitment from the foundation last January for the two-year pilot project that has since become a permanent program at GLSS.
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 ...
WASHINGTON — As a veteran, U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, has no shortage of friends in the military.
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 .
They are just a few of the more than 2,000 homeless people living in Allegheny County, according to the Allegheny County Department of Human Services.
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.
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