Mental Health Month – Resources and a Richmond Area Event
The National Mental Health Association (now Mental Health America) first proclaimed May to be Mental Health Awareness Month in 1949, to bring mental health out of the shadows and into the everyday language of health. 76 years later the increase in public awareness is...
New Central State Hospital – History & Hope
After years of delay, the final steel beam was placed atop a new Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County on May 1st. Projected to open next year, the new facility symbolizes the dramatic change in how we treat people living with a serious mental illness. As Angela...
Statement on Drastic HHS Staffing Reductions
The federal government funds major parts of our mental health services, as well as the mental health services provided by many other Virginia non-profits, state and local government agencies, including Community Services Boards. Every citizen has cause for alarm at...