Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has unveiled a $500 million mental health initiative as part of his biennial budget set to unfold over the next two years, declaring 2023 the "Year of Mental Health," WisPolitics reported May 1.
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Hollywood, Fla.-based United Recovery Project, an addiction treatment provider, is planning to open a new behavioral health facility in Florida.
CHANCES, an addiction services program in Philadelphia, has closed following financial hardship, NPR affiliate WHYY reported May 1.
Wisconsin-based retailer Kohl's has donated $3 million to Children's Wisconsin in Milwaukee to open three mental health walk-in clinics across the state, according to a May 1 report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The demand for behavioral health services in the U.S. far outstrips its supply of behavioral health workers and clinicians, and even the nation's best hospitals suffer the effects.
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Vickie Anenberg, COO of Cottonwood Heights, Utah-based Supplemental Health Care, sat down with Becker's to share projects she is excited about, her top priorities and the future of behavioral health.
The mental health crisis in America could be growing worse, according to a CVS Health/Harris Poll survey.
Yakima, Wash.-based Comprehensive Healthcare plans to open a new behavioral health facility at Camp Hope, an emergency homeless shelter also in Yakima.
New legislation in New Jersey would lower the age for youth to access mental healthcare without parental consent to 13, New Jersey Monitor reported April 28.