The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s 988 hotline marked its one-year milestone this month.
Tag: mental health
Posted inFact briefs
Did a national poll find that 86% of transgender and nonbinary youth reported negative mental health effects from anti-trans legislation?
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?
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
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
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.
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
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
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?
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
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
Groups seek to destigmatize mental illness and highlight resources.
Posted inMoney & Politics Column
Mental health option hits snag
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.