by Brett Yates | Dec 1, 2022 | news
An increased regulatory focus on removing psychiatric inpatients’ opportunities for self-harm has led Vermont’s hospitals to make major changes to improve safety. But according to psychiatric survivors, some of these changes have yielded unintended consequences in how...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Dec 1, 2022 | news
RUTLAND – Vermont Psychiatric Survivors board members offered a tribute to longtime staff advocate Amy Wales at the opening of the organizations Annual Meeting this past fall. Wales was a peer support worker at Second Spring, an intensive recovery residence, for 10...
by Brett Yates | Dec 1, 2022 | news
BENNINGTON – Vermont could have ten to 12 new inpatient psychiatric beds for adolescents by 2024 if a proposal by Southwestern Vermont Medical Center comes to fruition. Direct input from psychiatric survivors or family members has yet to be brought into discussion on...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Dec 1, 2022 | news
RUTLAND – Of a total of only 25 responses to Counterpoint’s fall poll question, about two thirds supported creation of a separate hospital for patients who are involved with the criminal justice system. In Vermont – unlike most states – such forensic patients are held...
by Brett Yates | Dec 1, 2022 | news
MONTPELIER – With at least 47 new faces entering the Vermont House of Representatives and nine freshman senators, the 2023-2024 legislative biennium looks more than usual like a blank canvas. Mental health advocates will be watching closely to see how it fills up. The...
by Brett Yates | Dec 1, 2022 | news
BURLINGTON – The Department of Mental Health is actively looking to relieve Vermont’s overburdened emergency departments by expanding other options for care during mental health crises. There has not yet been any direct involvement by psychiatric survivors about...
