Dr. Kevin Huckshorn is known in the mental health community as a hospital fixer, taking facilities on the cusp of losing certification, or worse, and breathing new life into them. Her personal goal is to address the science to service gap and bring humanity into any facility she enters.
As helicopters hover above her to put out a nearby fire, Leora Wolf-Prusan, EdD, of the Center for Applied Research Solutions, shares insights on school leadership's role during and after a crisis. She talks about lessons learned from numerous disasters such as the Paradise Camp Fire and school mass shootings
Three years ago, Angela Kimball, national director of advocacy and public policy at NAMI, witnessed her thirty-year-old son experience a psychotic break. She shares the system challenges she faced trying to help him and the crisis care loop she and her son ended up stuck in.
Today, Dr. Charles Browning sits down to talk with Sheree Lowe, vice-president of behavioral health at the California Hospital Association. Lowe highlights that because California lacks 24/7 mental health emergency services, it forces people into a choke point of emergency departments during the involuntary care commitment process. She shares with
Rachel Bowes, head of crisis services and quality at Lifeline Australia, says the COVID-19 pandemic came on the heels of devastating bushfires and has resulted in closed state borders, the biggest budget deficit since the end of the Second World War, and opportunities for growth.
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
On Thursday, the FCC voted to formally make 988 the nationwide number for mental health, substance use, and suicide crisis, adopting rules that require all phone service carriers to start directing 988 calls to the existing Lifeline by July 16, 2022. While the FCC moving forward with 988 is essential,