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Mental Health America (MHA) has released the State of Mental Health in America report for 2022, which ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on several behavioral health and access measures. Almost 20% of people in the U.S. are living with a mental...
The lack of mental health care providers is a problem in most of the U.S. It’s become much worse since the pandemic, and Virginia ranks 40th among the states in providing access to a trained behavioral health workforce. The waiting period in much of the state...
Mental Health America’s affiliate in Charlottesville, VA, Partner for Mental Health, has been leading an effort to get the CDC to update their list of high risk conditions for COVID morbidity and mortality to include mental health conditions. Their advocacy...
Bruce Cruser, Executive Director, and Cheryl DeHaven, PRS Warm Line Manager Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, our peer run Warm Line was providing free phone support to a steady increase in callers from throughout the state. Not a crisis “hot line,” a warm line can...
Romantha Turner-Miller, BSN RN-CEN Background Considering the state as a whole, Virginia has a very low rate of youth in foster care. We rank among the five best states in the nation for having the fewest number of children in foster care per 1,000 residents...
