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...
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...
QUESTION: Does Vermont need a forensic psychiatric hospital? A forensic psychiatric hospital would house and treat criminal defendants who’ve been adjudicated incompetent to stand trial or found not guilty by reason of insanity. Vermont does not currently have...
In St. Albans, the pandemic-delayed plan by Northwestern Medical Center (NMC) to build a new emergency department, announced in 2019, remains underway. One component of the process, mandated by the Green Mountain Care Board as a condition of the project’s Certificate...
After receiving an extension on a pair of reports owed to the state legislature earlier this year, the Vermont Department of Mental Health (DMH) offered an update in July to the General Assembly’s Joint Legislative Justice Oversight Committee on the progress – or lack...
The annual number of referrals for self-neglect received by Adult Protective Services (APS), a subdivision of the Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living (DAIL), increased by 50% between 2017 and 2021. The major jump occurred in 2020, when...
