WASHINGTON, May 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Council for Behavioral Health today began distributing 2.3 million surgical face masks to mental health and addiction treatment organizations unable to acquire personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect staff. "Our member organizations are on the frontlines and risk exposure to the coronavirus every day as they treat those living with mental health and substance use challenges," National Council for Behavioral Health President and CEO Chuck Ingoglia said. "Clinicians are going out to meet clients where they are, whether it's at their homes or in public places on the streets, so we launched a massive effort to find PPE and address an enormous need for the life-saving equipment." A survey of National Council members in April found only 7% of community behavioral health care organizations had enough PPE to last the next two months, while 86% said they didn't have enough PPE and 8% were unsure. Continue reading →

The world is experiencing a level of collective distress that has never been seen before, due to COVID-19. People are quarantining, spending days upon days and weeks upon weeks inside their homes and doing their best to avoid the spread of the coronavirus Continue reading →

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Mike & Sherry Project, a pilot program designed to make mental health care more accessible to members of the Austin service industry, is opening its resources to all members of the Austin bar and restaurant community impacted by COVID-19. The Project was envisioned by local restaurateur Sam Hellman-Mass, owner of Austin-based Suerte, in partnership with Capital Area Counseling, (CAC), which has provided low-cost, effective and accessible counseling to Central Texans for 40 years. CAC is offering low-cost tele-therapy services to members of the Austin bar and restaurant industry, regardless of employment status due to dining room closures with help from the fundraising efforts of the Mike & Sherry Project Continue reading →

PENDLETON Most afternoons, Jenni Beth Brock sits down at her bedroom desk, powers up her laptop, slips on a pair of headphones and gets to work. Brock, of Boardman, answers calls for the David Romprey Oregon Warmline as a peer support operator. She spends her days helping people deal with anxiety, depression, loneliness and worry Continue reading →

May 12, 2020 09:15 ET | Source: Northeast Business Group on Health NEW YORK, May 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With demand for mental health services reaching unprecedented levels amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Northeast Business Group on Health (NEBGH) and One Mind PsyberGuide today released Digital Tools and Solutions for Mental Health, a comprehensive employer guide that provides HR and benefits leaders with the information they need to assess and select digital mental health solutions for their employees. Continue reading →

Outreach workers are running errands or dropping off milkshakes, to get face time with vulnerable kids trapped at home during the pandemic. Continue reading →

Peninsula Behavioral Health CEO Wendy Sisk. PORT ANGELES Peninsula Behavioral Health has received $2 million in federal funding to help treat severe mental and behavioral illness in Clallam County, U.S. Sen Maria Cantwell announced Continue reading →

There is no playbook for COVID-19. There is no guideline that explains how isolation should be done, how hospitals should be prepared, or what we can expect when businesses begin opening again Continue reading →

Balancing the demands of motherhood has never been easy. And, with Covid-19 forcing many women to be an employee, parent and teacher all at once, many working moms are having a hard time keeping it all together. In fact, 74% of U.S. Continue reading →

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) William Doan, Pennsylvania State University (THE CONVERSATION) Ive lived much of my life with anxiety and depression, including the negative feelings shame and self-doubt that seduced me into believing the stigma around mental illness: that people knew I wasnt good enough; that they would avoid me because I was different or unstable; and that I had to find a way to make them like me. It took me some time Im a classic late bloomer but just before I turned 60, I discovered that sharing my story by drawing could be an effective way to both alleviate my symptoms and combat that stigma. Continue reading →