An increased regulatory focus on removing psychiatric inpatients’ opportunities for self-harm has led Vermont’s hospitals to make major changes to improve safety. But according to psychiatric survivors, some of these changes have yielded unintended consequences in how...
RUTLAND – Vermont Psychiatric Survivors board members offered a tribute to longtime staff advocate Amy Wales at the opening of the organizations Annual Meeting this past fall. Wales was a peer support worker at Second Spring, an intensive recovery residence, for 10...
BENNINGTON – Vermont could have ten to 12 new inpatient psychiatric beds for adolescents by 2024 if a proposal by Southwestern Vermont Medical Center comes to fruition. Direct input from psychiatric survivors or family members has yet to be brought into discussion on...
RUTLAND – Of a total of only 25 responses to Counterpoint’s fall poll question, about two thirds supported creation of a separate hospital for patients who are involved with the criminal justice system. In Vermont – unlike most states – such forensic patients are held...
MONTPELIER – With at least 47 new faces entering the Vermont House of Representatives and nine freshman senators, the 2023-2024 legislative biennium looks more than usual like a blank canvas. Mental health advocates will be watching closely to see how it fills up. The...
