MHA Advocacy Succeeds – CDC Adds Mental Health to List of High Risk Health Conditions

by Bruce Cruser | Oct 16, 2021 | Mental health

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...

Warm Line Gives Valuable Support both in and out of the Pandemic

by Bruce Cruser | Jul 11, 2021 | Mental health

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...

A COVID Silver Linings Playbook: Telehealth Mental Health Services

by Bruce Cruser | May 11, 2021 | Mental health

Romantha Turner-Miller, BSN RN-CEN May 11, 2021 While recognizing exactly what ugliness this pandemic has meant for our individual and collective mental health, I can also see that there are now some definite positive lights at the end of COVID-19’s long, dark, and...

COVID-19 & Mental Health: Final Reflection

by Bruce Cruser | Jul 24, 2020 | Blog

As my internship with Mental Health America of Virginia (MHAV) comes to a close for the summer, I have done extensive reflection on my experience in writing this blog. With my original plans to conduct psychology research with a professor this summer and to study...

Grief, Loss, & Trauma During COVID-19

by Bruce Cruser | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog

**Trigger Warning: death and grief over the loss of loved ones; suicide** I would like to preface this post by mentioning that I cannot speak from personal experience or understanding of losing a loved one or friend to COVID-19 and that I am posting this as a form of...

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