On July 16, Mayor Miro Weinberger issued an official proclamation, declaring Mad Pride Day in the City of Burlington. With the mayor stuck in Italy after contracting COVID-19 while on vacation, MadFreedom founder Wilda White read the proclamation in his absence. Its...
• On June 21, the University of Vermont Health Network (UVMNH) opened a new, 18-room adult inpatient psychiatric unit at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH) in Plattsburgh, NY. At 19,000 square feet, the facility triples the size of CVPH’s previous psych ward....
In 2017, the Vermont General Assembly created a Mental Health Crisis Response Commission for the purpose of “conducting reviews of law enforcement interactions with persons” in extreme mental states. New Hampshire could be the next state to institutionalize this form...
On Aug. 1, the Vermont Department of Mental Health (DMH) distributed a “notice of intent to procure community-based mobile crisis intervention services.” The document announced an upcoming request for proposals (RFP), whereby, in November, DMH will solicit vendors to...
Early this year, Sara Merrow began a three-year term as president of the board of directors at Vermont Psychiatric Survivors (VPS), the civil rights advocacy organization that publishes Counterpoint. Merrow succeeded Zachary Hughes, a peer supporter who works at...
