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Leading mental health researchers are warning that some of the most important health consequences of climate change will be on mental health. The researchers say that climate change has the potential to have significant negative effects on those with pre-existing serious mental illness, but that there is also likely to be an increase in the overall burden of mental disorder worldwide.
Mary Grimm used a local cafe as her office and received words of encouragement from cafe employees to write "The Tootsie Roll Lady: A Memoir of Mental Illness, Alcoholism and Faith," a book about finding hope and her personal struggles between 1998 and 2005.
Instituting student mental health screenings is one way to improve the initiative further.
EUREKA -- The Art For Life Studio's holiday art show will take place today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the conference room at Humboldt County Mental Health Services, 720 Wood St.
The Associated Press MONTGOMERY | A newspaper publisher who resigned from Alabama’s mental health advisory board said Thursday he will rejoin the panel since members changed the rules to allow public access to their meetings.
WOODSTOCK – The case of a Wonder Lake woman accused of striking a police officer and threatening to let her pit bull loose has been transferred to McHenry County’s Mental Health Court.
MONTICELLO — Proposed cuts in county budgets for mental health mean a loss of five mental-health positions, reduced mental-health services in the schools and could double wait times, said Joe Todora, director of the Department of Community Services.
One man used the word “sweethearts” to describe the people who made this year’s Hope for the Holidays possible.A few gave shy smiles and agreed this helps.By 11:45 a.m. Thursday — not quite an hour into the event — 220 people had received sack lunches, and more people were coming through, said Lynn Hartje, director of behavioral health services with Helen Farabee Mental Health/Mental ...
AUBURN - Cayuga County lawmakers and health officials marked the beginning of the last stage of building the county's new mental health facility Thursday.
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital this week came a step closer to realizing a three-year plan to reshuffle the Island’s mental health and walk-in clinic services, and gain extra parking space at the same time.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa lawmaker who pushed for a review of Iowa's four mental health institutions says the Legislature will likely vote to close at least one of them despite a task force recommendation that all should stay open.
LEBANON, Ohio - Southwest Ohio authorities say former NBA player Kirk Snyder has been transferred to a mental health facility after being ordered back to jail for allegedly removing an electronic monitor. Snyder pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in April to felonious assault and aggravated burglary charges stemming from a home break-in. The 26-year-old was wearing the device while ...
The former head of the region’s leading mental-health board is facing criminal charges after accusations that he fondled an 11-year-old girl. Hunter Preston Widener, the executive director of Highlands Community Services until 2006, was charged Oct. 15 with two counts of aggravated sexual battery. Widener, 66, of Bristol, was released on a $7,500 unsecured bond on the condition he have no ...
The Amador County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness is holding an affiliate meeting and support group Tuesday, Dec. 8 in the conference room at Sutter Amador Hospital in Jackson.
ZACHARY – The Mental Health Association for Greater Baton Rouge held its 4th annual Mental Health Golf Classic Oct. 26 at Copper Mill Golf Course in Zachary. Sponsors were Albemarle Foundation, Amedysis, Louisiana Lottery, Mid-South Insurance, Neighbors Federal Credit Union and Synergy Home Care.
Advocates for mentally ill children have started an ambitious effort to protect state funding from cuts amid a gaping budget shortfall, and even expand services for what they say is a desperately underserved population.
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