Counterpoint Fall 2018 • NEWS • page 11 HARTFORD – Four deaths in seven months lent new urgency to creating a barrier to deter people from jumping from the Quechee Gorge bridge, state authorities say, and a temporary chain link fence is expected be installed there...
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • NEWS • page 9 RUTLAND – A total of 54 people responded to the summer Counterpoint poll question, with overwhelming support for the creation of more peer-run community centers and respite beds over the addition of hospital beds to improve the...
Counterpoint Fall 2018, Page 7 JOHNSBURY – Regulators found Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in violation of rules last spring for using peer support and other non-hospital support staff to monitor patients waiting for a psychiatric inpatient bed after an...
From Counterpoint Fall 2018, page 20 ANNE DONAHUE WASHINGTON – Somewhere between the restored freedom of a conference built without government funding and the celebration of peer support models expanding across the mental health system, a tension emerged at...
Please join Vermont Psychiatric Survivors for a screening of Crazywise, and a post-screening discussion with cast member Gogo Ekhaya Esima. Food and beverages will be served. The free event takes place at the Franklin Conference Center in Rutland on May 16, 2018, at...