Report by Anne Donahue MONTPELIER – Some 2,800 individuals, including children, who have been housed at hotels during the COVID pandemic face losing shelter by July 1, leading to a contentious political battle over the state’s budget and its responsibility to keep a...
Story by Anne Donahue BURLINGTON – When Christina Guessferd takes to the air as co-anchor on the WCAX nightly news, she is the consummate professional: composed, articulate, relaxed. That reflects a large part of how she sees herself. As her high school’s class...
WATERBURY — Projects intended to keep Vermonters out of emergency departments during mental health crises are coming to nearly every part of the state. Of the 12 submissions generated last year by the Department of Mental Health’s request for proposals for mental...
Story by Anne Donahue RUTLAND – Walt Wade, a longtime advocate for youth and those with addictions who joined Vermont Psychiatric Survivors in 2020, has been named its new Executive Director. He said his vision is “making VPS the agency that it should be” that...
BENNINGTON – The state legislature budgeted $9.225 million in fiscal year 2024 for the construction of an adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, indicating its approval of the project. The Department of Mental Health told...
MONTPELIER – A years-long legislative effort to create a separate forensic mental health system culminated in the passage of a law that will, by next summer, turn the four and five-bed units of the Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital into a locked “therapeutic community...
