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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...
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...
