Why In-Home Crisis Stabilization for Kids Is Integral to the Mental Health Crisis System
As states prepare for 988, Andrea Rifkind says they should expand their crisis continuum to include in-home stabilization for young people.
Author of “Crazy” Shares His Story of Navigating Virginia’s Crisis System with His Son
Former Washington Post reporter and best-selling author Pete Earley was introduced to the mental healthcare system when, in 2000, his son called him and said, “I can’t tell if I’m dreaming all the time or if I’m awake.”
Dr. Michael Hogan Discusses National Funding Released for Crisis Systems
Last week, SAMHSA released a Notice of Award. Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, and the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplement Appropriations Act, 2021, $35 million in federal funding per year has been added to the Mental Health Block Grant to support evidence-based crisis systems. Michael Hogan, Ph.D., Crisis Now
Leora Wolf-Prusan, EdD, on School Mental Health Crisis Leadership During Disasters
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
Angela Kimball of NAMI on the Importance of Family in Crisis and Recovery
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.
Relying on Hospital EDs for Psychiatric Care… How This Approach Disenfranchises Individuals in Crisis
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
Suicidologist Cautions Against High Suicide Predictions for 2020
There has been a great deal of speculation on what’s to come in mental health and what the suicide rate will be when 2020 is all said and done. Suicidologist Daniel S. DeBrule, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, is cautiously optimistic. He says
Major Sam Cochran Says to Leaders, “Support and Keep Open Essential Mental Health Crisis Services”
CIT officers are worried about what will happen to people with mental illness if leaders strip down to essential services and mental health crisis services aren’t deemed so. Maj. Cochran said that law enforcement knows what that looks like, and they don’t want to go back.
COVID-19: Industry Disruptor, Dr. Ursula Whiteside, Makes Life-Saving Mental Health Skills Accessible
NowMattersNow.org is a critical resource as Americans, whose day-to-day lives have been disrupted, navigate the coronavirus pandemic crisis and the challenges that come with it, such as isolation, unemployment, housing instability, and illness.
Part 1: Tsunami Alarms Are Blaring—We Must Shore Up the Sea Wall
#COVID19: A system of core no-wrong-door, behavioral health crisis care continuum services deployed directly to those in need can reduce hundreds of thousands of emergency room visits for people in psychiatric distress.
