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5 days ago · Gavin Newsom’s Mental Health Plan Could Strip More than $700 Million from Services, Report Says. A proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom to overhaul the state’s behavioral and mental health system is likely to take nearly $720 million away from services provided by county governments annually, according to a new analysis.
Trump demonizes immigrants and those with mental illness
4 days ago · Good morning, MindSite News readers. Two days after Donald Trump was elected president in Nov. 2016, mental health advocates in Chicago gathered to discuss concerns about the election’s impact on immigrants’ mental health. One of the attendees, an associate professor of social work named Maria Ferrera, recalls that immigrants she was in ...
Mental health giving rises a bit but still too low - MindSite News
Sep 25, 2024 · Big picture, from 2015 to 2022, the magnitude of mental health giving doubled from about $1.2 billion to $2.3 billion. Adjusting for inflation, that is about a 50% or 55% increase. While inflation increased about 8% over that same time period, giving for all issue areas only increased 3%. So mental health giving is outpacing other areas and ...
Tips on How to Survive Election Day - MindSite News
12 hours ago · They include placing strong boundaries around your news consumption and avoiding substances that discourage sleep, like caffeine, nicotine and alcohol. In a YouTube segment, Rachel Feltman, host of Scientific American’s Science Quickly podcast, tested out the “Sleepy Girl mocktail” just before going to bed.
The Real Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis? No Free Play
Apr 25, 2024 · But Boston College professor Peter Gray is among the experts who believe that the disappearance of free play is the key factor driving the teen mental health crisis. In his 2013 book Free to Learn, he argued that free play is the basis for how kids learn to develop resilience. Now, in a recent interview in the Boston Globe, he said ...
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School Shooting: Beyond Thoughts & Prayers Is Mental Health
Sep 17, 2024 · Photo: Michele Cohen Marill. On a recent afternoon, the sisters of Christian Angulo, a 14-year-old freshman who died in the shooting, knelt before his photo at the memorial and read some of the messages left to honor him. Nearby, Sara Schneider stood at a respectful distance, keeping a protective eye. A Winder resident, she is still mourning ...
Revisiting Mass Shootings and Mental Illness - MindSite News
Dec 11, 2023 · The vast majority of mass shooters in the United States who survived their rampage over the last four decades had undiagnosed or untreated mental illness – and not a single one was on medication for the disorder, according to a study that got little attention when it was published last year but was recently awarded a psychiatric research prize.
It’s World Mental Health Day - MindSite News
October 10, 2024. By Courtney Wise. Greetings, MindSite News Readers. Happy World Mental Health Day! In today’s Daily, a peek at the difficulties one woman faces maintaining sobriety while navigating motherhood and the mindset one school-based therapist in Minnesota embodies to help boys be themselves without fear.
Six Days Out, Election Anxiety Builds - MindSite News
6 days ago · A 2022 study of more than 10,000 US nursing homes found that increases in licensed staff were linked to decreases in improper antipsychotic use. “Optimal care for those conditions is more hands-on, spending more time with patients,” said Jason Falvey, a geriatric physical therapist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. “When ...