by Brett Yates | Jun 14, 2022 | news
· The Vermont Department of Mental Health (DMH) began to solicit applications on Feb. 16 for grants that will pay for structural upgrades to supportive housing and community-based mental health facilities, with an aim of boosting safety and accessibility and improving...
by Brett Yates | Jun 14, 2022 | news
The Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living’s Division of Licensing and Protection (DLP) conducted an “unannounced on-site re-licensure survey and complaint investigation” at Segue House in Montpelier in February. The state regulators identified...
by Brett Yates | Jun 14, 2022 | news
Vermont Mad Pride Day will take place on July 16, 2022, in Burlington. Attendees will gather at Church and Main streets for a march at noon to Battery Park, where festivities will continue – with speeches, music, and food and drink – until 3 p.m. Cities around the...
by Brett Yates | Mar 8, 2022 | news
The first week of Vermont’s legislative session saw the introduction of two bills that would dramatically advance the development of peer-based mental health services in the state. Five peer-led mental health organizations – Alyssum, Another Way, MadFreedom, Pathways...
by Brett Yates | Mar 8, 2022 | news
Vermont’s first statewide use-of-force policy for police went into effect on Oct. 1, 2021. In preparation, law enforcement officers received in-person training by the Vermont Police Academy in August and September, with a self-identified psychiatric survivor providing...
by Brett Yates | Mar 8, 2022 | news
On Jan. 15, the Vermont General Assembly learned that the Department of Mental Health (DMH) recorded 50 incidences of court-approved involuntary non-emergency psychiatric medication in Vermont hospitals in fiscal year 2021 (FY21), which began on July 1, 2020, and...
