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Category Archives: Mental Health

Is touch starvation affecting your mental health during the pandemic? – Yahoo Sports

Posted: Published on September 19th, 2020

Physical touch is a natural part of human existence that has benefits both our mental and physical health. Yahoo Life Mental Health Contributor Jen Hartstein says it's important to find safe ways to increase touch in our lives Continue reading

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Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office creates a crisis response team with $500K from county behavioral health division – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Posted: Published on September 19th, 2020

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Accolade is teaming up with this growing startup to offer virtual mental health for employees – FierceHealthcare

Posted: Published on September 19th, 2020

Workers' mental health is top of mind for CEOs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In second-quarter 2020 earnings calls, mentions of mental health and wellness more than quadrupled from the first quarter, jumping from 40 mentions to more than 140 mentions, according to CB Insights. Company executives recognize there is a looming behavioral health crisis stemming from thepandemic and that it'sdriving demand for mental health toolsfor employees. Continue reading

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Mental health expert warns Woodlands board of continued concerns – Chron.com

Posted: Published on September 19th, 2020

Palmer Buck, fire chief of he Woodlands Fire Department, todl the baord members that a long-awaited study on damage to Fire Station No. Continue reading

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Accolade and Ginger team up to scale digital mental health – Business Insider

Posted: Published on September 19th, 2020

Health benefits company Accoladepartnered with fast-growing telemental health startup Ginger to roll out app-based mental health offerings as an additional benefit to its 1.7 million members via employer partnerships. Accolade's platform will be enhanced with Ginger's on-demand mental health services, giving its corporate partners' employees access to virtual therapy, psychiatry, and mental health coaching services. Alliances between employers and telemental health firms are beneficial for businesses and employees alike Continue reading

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Dallas plans to expand this mental health crisis team. Should police still be involved? – The Dallas Morning News

Posted: Published on September 19th, 2020

RIGHT Care team members, from left, Parkland Memorial Hospital psychiatric social worker Sarah Holigan, Dallas Fire Department driver/engineer Abel Rodriguez and Dallas Police officer Aaron Rucker are photographed at the South Central Dallas Police Department, Wednesday, August 19, 2020. Continue reading

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Mental Health Town Hall: The System’s Failure To Protect And Serve Woman Shot By Police – GPB News

Posted: Published on September 19th, 2020

In April 2018, a 36-year-old woman experiencing a mental health crisis was shot and killed by Johns Creek police officers outside her home. Continue reading

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Binghamton Police, Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier discuss programs in mental health crisis response – WBNG-TV

Posted: Published on September 19th, 2020

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- Mayor Rich David, Police Chief Joseph Zikuski and Director of Crisis Services at MHAST. Michael Hatch from the Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier (MHAST) held a press conference to outline the Binghamton Police Department's programs and training to improve interactions between police and individuals experiencing a mental health crises Continue reading

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Mental health workers protest new initiative pairing Buffalo police with social workers – WKBW-TV

Posted: Published on September 19th, 2020

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‘A school year unlike any other’: Wisconsin’s top educator will ask for more special ed, mental health services – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Posted: Published on September 19th, 2020

Carolyn Stanford Taylor(Photo: Department of Public Instruction) The coronavirus pandemic laid bare the stark inequities in access and opportunities among school children in Wisconsin, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Carolyn Stanford Taylor said Thursday in her annual State of Education address. She said she will seek additional state dollars to narrow at leastsome of those gaps, particularly in the areas of special education and mental health services, in her 2021-23 budget proposal. "Every child has been impacted in some way by COVID-19," Stanford Taylor said. Continue reading

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