Conflict of Interest?

Conflict of Interest?

State Lags on Requirement To Divide Case Management from Services MONTPELIER – In 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued new regulations intended to protect Medicaid beneficiaries who receive care outside of institutional settings. Vermont is...
Peer Certification Efforts Continue

Peer Certification Efforts Continue

After a bill that would have created a statewide certification program for peer support workers in Vermont failed in the legislature last spring, advocates continued to pursue the idea. “When they kind of shut it down, the peer movement, in their own way, went back to...
Telepsych May Expand in EDs

Telepsych May Expand in EDs

A one-year federally funded project aims to help expand telehealth-based psychiatric assessments to emergency departments across the state. Thanks to an earmark secured by Senator Patrick Leahy, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration sent...
Founding Director to Step Down

Founding Director to Step Down

The peer-run respite Alyssum announced this summer that after 11 years, the organization’s founding director, Gloria van den Berg, had made plans to step down. Alyssum held an open house at its home-like, rural property in the White River Valley on Sept. 16. Former...
Walk Calls Attention to Suicide

Walk Calls Attention to Suicide

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...

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