A bill originally intended to codify admissions criteria at Vermont’s first psychiatric facility exclusively for patients committed by a criminal court underwent major revisions over the course of the legislative session. By the time S.192 passed in May, lawmakers and...
The Vermont General Assembly approved a bill requiring the Office of Professional Regulation to certify peer support providers. It will take effect on July 1, 2025. In 2022, Vermont’s five peer mental health organizations sought to persuade the legislature to enact a...
Editorial: Housing First Means Housing First Saying that housing is the solution to homelessness is a little like saying that oxygen is the solution to asphyxiation. Both statements are obviously true – though the former hasn’t always been as obvious to some as the...
In 2009, when Dartmouth professor Elizabeth Carpenter-Song launched what would become a decade-long ethnographic study of homelessness in the Upper Connecticut River Valley, plenty of its residents, by her account, didn’t know that a homeless population existed in the...
“It’s not the Dorchester, is it?” says one inmate at an English “hospital for the criminally insane” to a newer patient, referring sarcastically to the famous five-star hotel in London. “Although most of our guests stay for much longer,” she adds. “It’s the...
