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AHCCCS alerted to ‘predictable’ homelessness surge before fraud crackdown
From the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (AZCIR)
The state agency at the center of Arizona’s ongoing behavioral health crisis knew its proposed billing reforms could trigger a surge in homelessness nearly a year before implementing the changes, yet still failed to adequately prepare for the fallout—or adjust its response to the crisis that emerged as a result.
Being ‘my own role model’: Normalizing mental health care in the AANHPI community
From the Cronkite News
For Jessika Malic, communications director of Asian Pacific Community for Action, a Phoenix-based nonprofit focused on providing access to health care, her search for the right mental health provider for herself involved some added effort.
How the Texas vision for seamless mental health care fell apart over 60 years
From The Texas Tribune
A lack of private providers, a swamped community mental health system, and low insurance reimbursement have cut off many in Texas from basic mental health services
More options, less stigma: How Georgians in recovery are breaking barriers to addiction care
From Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB)
For Jocelyn Wallace, a former paramedic from Douglas County, her opioid addiction started like many others — with a prescription to treat her pain after a car accident. She was 16 years old at the time.
Suffering in silence: Male college students less likely to seek counseling
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When Vernon Allwood helped open Morehouse College’s counseling center 35 years ago, he had to convince students to talk about their problems.
These Oklahomans Needed Mental Health Care. Instead, They Died in Jail.
From Oklahoma Watch
Lena Corona was sitting on the porch of her Seminole home, blood dripping from her hand, when police arrived at 2:45 a.m. Her dad stood behind her, pressing a T-shirt over the wound on his chest where Corona had plunged a shard of glass.
The mental health of migrants simmers below the surface as the next looming crisis
From WBEZ
Jorge Rubiano is a haunted man.
For months, he has tried to find work. For months, he has slept in a shelter, worrying about his wife and mother he left behind in Colombia. Are they safe? Did I make the right decision?
GOP-led push to fund police over counselors leaves some schools ‘in the lurch’
From the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (AZCIR)
Brian Miller is a fixture at Charles W. Harris School in Phoenix, a familiar face kids and parents encounter four days a week.
‘A friend to us all’: Rosalynn Carter is remembered fondly by her namesake Fellows
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, the founder and namesake of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism, passed away on November 19, 2023. She was 96. Not long after, the Carter family issued a statement sharing that, “Rosalynn Carter’s deep compassion for people everywhere and her untiring strength on…