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California is trying to house the homeless through a health insurance program. It worked for this man.
From the Los Angeles Times,
On a blistering hot Friday in August, Donald Winston, 56, lugged black trash bags stuffed with belongings up four flights of stairs to what had just become his first-ever home of his own.
Uvalde prompted Texas to start taking mental health funding for schools seriously. Is it enough?
From Texas Public Radio
On a sweet, sunny spring Tuesday, children across the state were preparing for summer break, feeling that giddy rush that comes to kids in those last, loose days of the school year when unstructured hours of summer fun spool out before them.
Texas bans many proven tools for helping drug users. Advocates are handing them out anyway.
From The Texas Tribune
Thirty minutes before a punk show this summer, Claudia Dambra set up a table and taped to it a tablecloth she had hand-painted with broad, white brushstrokes. The banner read, “PUNK NOT DEATH.”
Can telehealth solve America’s mental health crisis in schools?
From Texas Public Radio
The kids are not alright. A CDC analysis released earlier this year found that in 2021— the second year of the pandemic — more than 37 percent of high school students reported experiencing poor mental health, and 44 percent reported they felt persistently sad or hopeless throughout the year.
Youth mental health services expand in San Antonio and statewide
From Texas Public Radio
In a unanimous decision earlier this month, the San Antonio City Council voted to create a framework to increase mental health care access across the city. The city will utilize $23 million from the American Rescue Plan Act. How will the funds be disbursed? What age groups will the city focus its efforts on?
“It’s destroying me”: Storm after storm, climate change increases strain on Texans’ mental health
From The Texas Tribune
The first thing Dana Jones, 61, tells you to do when you enter her gray-blue house in Melrose Park is walk along the off-white tile, up and down, through her dining room, while she watches carefully for your reaction. “Do you feel it?” she asks.
There’s Free Mental Health Help For Crime Victims, But Providers Say Bureaucracy Gets In The Way
From SCPR/KPCC
About three years ago, a Southern California resident we’ll call Jane —we’re not using her real name because of a pending trial and security concerns— and her husband found out their child had been assaulted.
Youth access to mental health care improved under Jake’s Law, but persistent barriers hamper its reach
From the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (AZCIR)
In March 2020, Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law a sweeping set of measures designed to help curb rising rates of suicide and expand access to mental health treatment for Arizona residents with and without insurance.
Why is it so hard to find therapists who take insurance in Illinois?
From the Chicago Tribune
Meena Thiruvengadam faced a choice when her therapist stopped taking health insurance about a year ago.
How Georgia’s new mental health law works
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There’s a new law on the books that should make accessing treatment for mental illness and addiction much easier.
How researchers are getting farmers to talk about mental health
From Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB)
Christina Proctor spent many hours during her childhood on the front porches of neighborhood farms in Madison County.
Farmers have silently struggled with their mental health for years. Are they ready to talk?
From Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB)
Drew Echols doesn’t remember ever talking with his father about mental health. Or his grandfather. In fact, he doesn’t remember the last time he talked about his mental health at all.
It’s the most important part of addiction recovery — and often the most difficult to access
From Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB)
Residents in rural South Georgia are adamantly fighting a zoning request — a faith-based nonprofit called Redeemed Living wants to build cabins for men in addiction recovery on 23 acres of local farmland. But the neighbors don’t want them living next door.
Why The Pandemic Took An Especially High Mental Health Toll On New Parents
From KPCC
About six weeks after she gave birth to her son in the summer of 2020, Erin Sricharoon was driving to her local Starbucks in Yucaipa to get an iced chai latte when she had to pull over.
CARE Court Aims To Help People Living With Serious Mental Illnesses. Would It Bring New Solutions Or More Problems?
From KPCC
There’s a bill making its way through the state legislature that aims to create new avenues for people living with a serious mental illness to get life-saving treatment.
For trans youth in North Texas, finding affirming mental health care can be a challenge
From KERA
Roswell Gray, 17, has seen a lot of different therapists’ offices. They’re always some variation of black and white and gray, the muted tones matching the monotony of having to explain everything over and over again to a new person, in the hopes they’ll be the right fit.
Permanent funding solution elusive as mental health provider shortage plagues Arizona schools—and students
From the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (AZCIR)
At times, seventh grade felt like one long string of panic attacks to Zoe Edelstein.
Amidst a lack of mental health services, the ‘Living Room’ approach aims to plug gaps
From Side Effects Public Media
After a bad breakup, 19-year-old Benjamin Kowalczyk said everything felt like it was crumbling around him. He dropped out of college, and felt himself getting angry with his family.
Crisis ‘living rooms’ offer an alternative to emergency room visits and hospitalizations
From WBUR
The new 988 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number rolls out this Saturday. The majority of crisis hotline calls can be resolved over the phone. But for those who need in-person help, facilities called Living Rooms are a welcome alternative.
