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About a quarter of Pennsylvania prison inmates have some mental health issue, and now the state Department of Corrections is moving to get them the help they need. 07/20/2015 Link to Source

Columbus officials knew the staggering statistic: More than 50 Bhutanese refugees have killed themselves since the U.S. started resettling them in 2008. 07/20/2015 Link to Source

Mental health issues don’t stay at home. They don’t take a vacation and they seldom take a day off. Untreated, mental health problems can translate into job performance issues, workplace accidents, staff turnover and absenteeism. Depression alone is estimated to...

Madison School District has learned they’ve been awarded a four year, $4 million dollar mental health expansion grant. 07/19/2015 Link to Source

Bipartisan legislation to support mental health awareness programs for school personnel was approved by the U.S. Senate as an amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1177). The amendment is based on the Mental Health First Aid Act (S....

Bipartisan legislation to support mental health awareness programs for school personnel was approved by the U.S. Senate as an amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1177). The amendment is based on the Mental Health First Aid Act (S....

GE is donating $3,000 to Mental Health America of Roanoke Valley (MHARV) to support educational programs focused on teen and veteran suicide prevention. 07/16/2015 Link to Source

The governing body is joining a county-wide movement that seeks to dispel myths relating to individuals living with mental illnesses. 07/16/2015 Link to Source

My name is Sean Maitner. I am a mental health worker, a Certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor, a graduate student at a local university, a recovering alcoholic with seven years of sobriety, a husband, father and a person with a psychiatric...

Mental health professionals who are helping Missouri communities identify and care for those with severe mental illness will have an increased ability to help those individuals, thanks to a bill signed into law today by Gov. Jay Nixon. 07/13/2015 Link...

Almost everyone has completed some level of first-aid classes in their life, and, with the help of LifeSpring Health Systems, Mental Health First Aid will become as common as the original first-aid certification.  07/09/2015 Link to Source

Mental Health First Aid is a relatively new way for the lay person to assist someone experiencing signs or risk factors for mental illness or who is suffering from a trauma.  07/08/2015 Link to Source