How COVID-19 is impacting communities: Kevin Fisher, executive director for NAMI Michigan, told The Detroit News that mental health providers in the state are starting to see the effects. It’s resulted in a surge in mental health demands, with calls to the state’s crisis lines up 80%. The problem for
Dr. Robert E. Drake, co-developer of the supported employment model Individual Placement and Support (IPS), says that people with serious mental illness and other disabilities are highly vulnerable to the pandemic and associated mandates, pointing out that “their safety and economic security should be high on our list of priorities.”
Crisis Now partners and leaders from around the world have released the Washington DC International Declaration, which calls for comprehensive and integrated networks as the first defense for mental health crises. The partners discuss the unrelenting inequity in access to care for people experiencing mental health emergencies compared to those
Wendy Linebrink-Allison, program manager of the New Mexico Crisis and Access Line, has been in recovery for over 15 years. She says she was jolted into sobriety when she saw her husband having a seizure in their front yard. He was experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms from alcohol. That day, they
Sue Murray, who leads the Zero Suicide Institute of Australia, interviews Dr. Caroline Dollery and Dr. Phil Moore from the U.K. on the IIMHL and Crisis Now 2 Summit in D.C. where leaders from around the globe developed an international declaration for mental health crisis care.
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