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Oct 16, 2024 · 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.
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Sep 27, 2021 · A new, editorially independent, digital publication focused on mental health, resilience and recovery The U.S. and much of the world is in the midst of a deepening and poorly understood mental health crisis – a crisis that was festering long before the COVID-19 pandemic. The enormous increase in mental and psychological suffering during the pandemic […]
Why Employee Wellness Programs Don't Work - MindSite News
1 day ago · The article breaks down all the reasons that wellness programs don’t work. First, the authors identify five reasons that individual-focused approaches fall short: 1) Employee wellness programs overlook root causes. For example, an employee who badly needs help with excessive stress due to a demanding workload not only won’t get it from a ...
In Chicago, Immigrants Struggle with Their Mental Health
Oct 16, 2024 · Silent Battles is a new reporting project focusing on the mental health of immigrant and refugee communities in the U.S. We begin in Chicago, a city founded by a Haitian immigrant that has the fourth-largest immigrant population in the U.S. The series is a collaboration between MindSite News and palabra, a multimedia platform from the National ...
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 ...
MindSite News Psychedelics and Mental Health Live Conversation …
Sep 21, 2022 · Mindsite News founding editor Rob Waters will be in conversation with Dr. Bronner’s CEO and psychedelics activist David Bronner. We’ll discuss his interest in psychedelics, why he financially supported a campaign that led voters in Oregon to pass the first ballot initiative in the country legalizing the use of psilocybin, and hear his thoughts about how that policy change is now unfolding.
Art Levine, Author at MindSite News
Aug 31, 2024 · Art Levine. Art Levine is an investigative reporter and the author of Mental Health Inc: How Corruption, Lax Oversight and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable. He is an award-winning contributing editor at The Washington Monthly and a former Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow and Nation Institute Investigative Fund grantee, has written ...
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 ...
A Movement for ‘Treatment not Trauma’ Advances in Chicago
Sep 27, 2024 · Earlier this month, about 100 Chicago residents gathered in Hyde Park Academy for the second annual Treatment Not Trauma summit. It was a celebration for organizers who have battled with mayors for years to reshape the city’s mental health system and make it more accessible and community-based. Johnson has committed to bringing mental health ...