After a bill that would have created a statewide certification program for peer support workers in Vermont failed in the legislature last spring, advocates continued to pursue the idea. “When they kind of shut it down, the peer movement, in their own way, went back to...
WATERBURY – A growing preference for community-based care for justice-involved youth led the state to close the scandal-plagued Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex more than two years ago. Since then, the Agency of Human Services has struggled to find a...
A one-year federally funded project aims to help expand telehealth-based psychiatric assessments to emergency departments across the state. Thanks to an earmark secured by Senator Patrick Leahy, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration sent...
The peer-run respite Alyssum announced this summer that after 11 years, the organization’s founding director, Gloria van den Berg, had made plans to step down. Alyssum held an open house at its home-like, rural property in the White River Valley on Sept. 16. Former...
Short fiction by Ron Merkin The more therapy I got the more my interest in women disintegrated. Don’t get me wrong, it didn’t transfer to men. Call it asexuality, distrust. My libido began fading after the psychologist Dr. Bloomstuck began our eleventh session by...
