BURLINGTON – A sunny Saturday morning in October drew a crowd to Burlington’s Battery Park, the starting point for an annual Out of the Darkness walk organized by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The group of survivors of suicide loss and mental health...
RUTLAND – Vermont Psychiatric Survivors has announced the start of two new peer outreach staff. Mariah Sullivan Mariah Sullivan has joined VPS as a patient representative for southern Vermont. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in...
The summer issue of Counterpoint in 1988, 34 years ago, focused on a new plan called “regionalization” that had begun the year before to shift people who were being held at the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury to living in their local communities with support...
RUTLAND – In its first in-person annual membership meeting since the COVID pandemic, Vermont Psychiatric Survivor’s Executive Director, Karim Chapman, told the staff and board members present not to be discouraged by the small turnout. “There is some great work...
Commentary by Zack Hughes, VPS Board Member Have you ever seen this? “We are having a membership meeting.” “Come renew your membership.” Why does it matter? VPS is a membership-driven organization. A member has obligations and has power! What obligations and power?...
