Legislators’ Proposed Amendments to the Introduced State Budget

by Bruce Cruser | Feb 2, 2022 | Mental health

The 2022 session of the Virginia General Assembly began with an introduced 2-year state budget that includes a significant down payment to address the crisis in Virginia’s mental health system. Underfunded for decades before the pandemic, the system is unable to...

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...

Mental Health Hospital Crisis

by Bruce Cruser | May 19, 2021 | Mental health

Overcrowding at Virginia’s nine state psychiatric hospitals has renewed calls for the state to build more hospitals. The state hospitals have reached capacity several times in recent years, and the pandemic has brought an already stressed system to a crisis point. The...

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...

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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