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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.
PORTSMOUTH — When two city police officers talked a suicidal man off the "high-level bridge" Wednesday morning by promising him a burger, a warm place to go and undivided attention, they "did all the right things," said Elaine de Mello.
MANSFIELD -- Two local nonprofit agencies are teaming up.
Fulton County has a new court program and it might be a casualty of the county's budget crisis. The mental health court is dedicated to helping people with serious mental illness get out of jail and stay out, by giving them the treatment and supervision they need.
YORK, Maine — An inmate in a minimum-security facility has barricaded herself in her room. She's beyond angry; she's raging. She's just learned in a letter from her lawyer that she's been denied a spot in a substance abuse program when she gets out...
The Lyon County Board of School Trustees, last week, approved an interlocal contract with the Rural Clinics Community Mental Health Centers for counseling and out-patient service for students in Dayton.
Democrat file photo Leeland Eisenberg, who was convicted of strapping fake explosives to his body and taking hostages during a 2007 standoff at a presidential campaign office in Rochester, sits for an interview at the minimum security unit at the state prison in Concord recently.
NEWTON This week, spokespeople for Newton Memorial Hospital clarified the reason they are no longer providing mental and behavioral health services in Sussex County.
When Brian Cardall died, the Hurricane Police Department had not received the crisis intervention training the state's mental health advocacy organization sees as critical, according to Sherri Wittwer, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Utah.
Above is a screenshot from a homemade video posted to YouTube in which Alyssa Bustamante, the suspect in the death of Elizabeth Olten, is shown holding onto an electric fence wire to experience the electric pulse.
GRIFFITH |The Town Council on Tuesday introduced an ordinance torelinquish an unused utility easement to Southlake Center forMental Health and Tri City Mental Health Center.
A San Bernardino County mental-health specialist who worked with traumatized children and adults had a prior prison record and four felony convictions when the Department of Behavioral Health hired her in February 2006.
NORTH AUGUSTA --- Police said they would offer mental health assistance to a North Augusta man who was arrested after he threatened to kill himself and North Augusta Public Safety Chief John Thomas during a standoff Tuesday that closed Womrath Court and portions of Thurmond Way for about six hours.
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - 11/18/09) - Editors Note: Photos and a video are included with this Press Release. Award-winning broadcaster, Valerie Pringle , knows what it means for many people staying at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to receive a Gift of Light over the holidays. Ms. Pringle, spokesperson for the charity gift giving campaign, volunteered last year to ...
ROME — Almost 150 health care professionals from around the area gathered at The Beeches Inn and Conference Center Friday, Oct. 30 for a day-long conference entitled “Dementia and Cognitive Aging: Clinical Advances in Memory Research and Behavioral Interventions.”
Mental health board is hostile to others
