There is potentially a lot of mental health money in the outlines of the human infrastructure package, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as several mental health initiatives.
COVID-19 and severe isolation have created a mental health crisis for incarcerated youth resulting in an epidemic of despair.
More students are returning to classrooms with mental health challenges than before the pandemic began.
With the deadline for launching the 988 line just 7 months away, only a few states have enacted legislation to create and fund call centers and other services.
Kelechi Ubozoh spent her childhood straddling two different worlds. She spent summers with her Nigerian father in New York, where she was born, and the rest of the year in suburban Atlanta, where her African American mother worked as a doctor. Today, she’s a mental health advocate, a convener and a storyteller.
A program that was a living symbol of the movement for dignity of mental patients was giving power to an official who was criticized for his treatment methods.
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