by Brett Yates | Dec 1, 2022 | news
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...
by Brett Yates | Nov 30, 2022 | news
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...
by Brett Yates | Nov 30, 2022 | news
WATERBURY – A growing preference for community-based care for justice-involved youth led the state to close the scandal-plagued Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex more than two years ago. Since then, the Agency of Human Services has struggled to find a...
by Brett Yates | Nov 30, 2022 | news
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...
by Brett Yates | Nov 30, 2022 | news
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...
by Brett Yates | Nov 30, 2022 | news
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...
