QUESTION: Does Vermont need a forensic psychiatric hospital? A forensic psychiatric hospital would house and treat criminal defendants who’ve been adjudicated incompetent to stand trial or found not guilty by reason of insanity. Vermont does not currently have...
A report by Dario Pio Muccilli News of the apparently imminent demise of the pioneering, community-based mental health system in the Italian city of Trieste created an international shockwave last fall. Since then, activists and politicians have fought back, but only...
• In the fall, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets and the Agency of Human Services announced the receipt of a USDA grant that will fund “expanded stress and mental health services” for Vermont farmers. The state-sponsored nonprofit Farm First will...
Last year, through Act 57, the General Assembly ordered a wide-ranging inquiry into the intersection of criminal justice and mental health in Vermont. The nature of mental health services in correctional settings comprised one area of concern. The legislation...
MONTPELIER – With new attention to the increases in emergency room use for mental health crises, a national expert was brought in for a conference this summer to advise local hospitals about improving the quality of care. He proposed a model called EmPath – emergency...
Counterpoint Winter 2018 • News • Page 7 MONTPELIER – The University of Vermont Health Network reported in late November that, according to its analysis, between 29 and 35 new psychiatric hospital beds are needed in Vermont. It has determined that these additional...
