WATERBURY – A growing preference for community-based care for justice-involved youth led the state to close the scandal-plagued Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex more than two years ago. Since then, the Agency of Human Services has struggled to find a...
A one-year federally funded project aims to help expand telehealth-based psychiatric assessments to emergency departments across the state. Thanks to an earmark secured by Senator Patrick Leahy, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration sent...
The peer-run respite Alyssum announced this summer that after 11 years, the organization’s founding director, Gloria van den Berg, had made plans to step down. Alyssum held an open house at its home-like, rural property in the White River Valley on Sept. 16. Former...
BURLINGTON – A sunny Saturday morning in October drew a crowd to Burlington’s Battery Park, the starting point for an annual Out of the Darkness walk organized by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The group of survivors of suicide loss and mental health...
RUTLAND – Vermont Psychiatric Survivors has announced the start of two new peer outreach staff. Mariah Sullivan Mariah Sullivan has joined VPS as a patient representative for southern Vermont. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in...
RUTLAND – In its first in-person annual membership meeting since the COVID pandemic, Vermont Psychiatric Survivor’s Executive Director, Karim Chapman, told the staff and board members present not to be discouraged by the small turnout. “There is some great work...
