In Montpelier, Judge Steven Leifman of Florida keynoted what the Vermont Judiciary Commission on Mental Health and the Courts called its first annual summit. Leifman’s speech described how Miami-Dade County’s decision to prioritize mental health treatment for...
For several years, Vermont’s hospitals have reported increases in emergency department visits for mental health. Downtown Montpelier has a new option for people in distress who need help immediately. At Washington County Mental Health Services’ Access Hub, that help...
The Vermont Department for Children and Families has plans to develop five new youth facilities to replace Essex’s Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, which shuttered in 2020 amid a dwindling inmate population and reports of abuse by staff. One of them will reuse...
Passed during June’s veto session, Act 81 is the law that codified Vermont’s transition plan for the last beneficiaries of its pandemic-era General Assistance Emergency Housing program. When the House Human Services and Senate Health and Welfare committees met for an...
The Vermont Agency of Human Services has drafted a rewrite of decades-old administrative rules that govern its advisory bodies. The potential update initially included the possibility of a merger between the State Program Standing Committees for Adult Mental Health...
