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Tag: mental health

Posted inHealth & Welfare

A year with 988: What worked? What challenges lie ahead?

by Colleen DeGuzman / KFF Health News July 31st, 2023July 28th, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s 988 hotline marked its one-year milestone this month.

Posted inFact briefs

Did a national poll find that 86% of transgender and nonbinary youth reported negative mental health effects from anti-trans legislation?

Avatar photo by Tom Kertscher / Wisconsin Watch July 21st, 2023July 21st, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Yes. A national poll asked lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning people age 13 to 24, “How have recent debates about state laws restricting the rights of LGBTQ young people impacted your mental health?”

Posted inHealth & Welfare

Wisconsin foster children often need mental health care to thrive. Why is it hard to help them?

Natalie Eilbert headshot by Natalie Eilbert / Green Bay Press-Gazette June 26th, 2023August 22nd, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Removed from home, deeply traumatized, foster children often need counseling. But even with activist foster parents, it can be hard to get.

Posted inJustice & Safety

A former Wisconsin white supremacist helps extricate Americans from violent hate groups

by Laurie Udesky / MindSite News May 11th, 2023May 11th, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Trauma, abuse and mental health problems can make people more vulnerable to violent extremism.

Posted inHealth & Welfare

Six-week waits, one counselor for eight rural districts: These are some of the hurdles facing youth mental health

Natalie Eilbert headshot by Natalie Eilbert / Green Bay Press-Gazette April 18th, 2023August 22nd, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Families and schools alike are scrambling to get the mental health care their children need to thrive. Providers are stretched thin. What’s going on?

Posted inJustice & Safety

Milwaukee County Jail sees four deaths since June. Advocates want answers.

by Devin Blake / Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service April 8th, 2023April 10th, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Jail safety advocates want Sheriff Denita Ball to meaningfully engage about conditions and protocol.

Posted inHealth & Welfare

When college athletes take their own lives, healing the team becomes the next goal

by Debby Waldman / Kaiser Health News April 4th, 2023April 3rd, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

In the weeks after Stanford University soccer goalie Katie Meyer, 22, died by suicide last March, her grieving teammates were inseparable even when not training.

Posted inHealth & Welfare

Safety concerns mount at Milwaukee County’s Granite Hills psychiatric hospital

by Devin Blake / Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service March 19th, 2023March 20th, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services flagged several violations, and dozens of calls to West Allis police concerned patients assaulting other patients or staff.

Posted inFact briefs

Have 14 cities in Wisconsin banned conversion therapy?

Avatar photo by Jacob Alabab-Moser / Wisconsin Watch January 18th, 2023January 24th, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Yes. As of January 2023, an ordinance banning licensed mental health practitioners from using conversion therapy on minors was in effect in 14 Wisconsin cities: Appleton, Cudahy, Eau Claire, Glendale, Kenosha, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, Racine, Sheboygan, Shorewood, Sun Prairie, Superior and West Allis. 

Posted inHealth & Welfare

‘You’re treated like a criminal’: Wisconsin eyes fixes for emergency mental health system

Avatar photo by Erin McGroarty / Wisconsin Watch January 5th, 2023February 8th, 2023 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Wisconsin should regionalize mental health crisis services, experts say. A legislative stalemate has stalled funding.

Posted inHealth & Welfare

Milwaukee County sees rise in suicides in Black communities

by Devin Blake / Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service December 5th, 2022December 3rd, 2022 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Groups seek to destigmatize mental illness and highlight resources.

Posted inMoney & Politics Column

Mental health option hits snag

by Bill Lueders February 24th, 2014July 29th, 2016 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Grothman wants to bottle up the bill to expand treatment alternatives and diversion programs to people with mental illness, but the bill could still pass over his objections. That’s because, aside from Grothman, the idea has overwhelming support.

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