mental health
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Sheldon kicks off lunchtime series on mental health, gender & creativity
The Middlebury museum’s Thursday lunchtime series looks to “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as a starting point to explore mental health, gender, creativity…
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Counseling Service picks new leader
The CSAC board recently picked Taylor Morley, 34, as its new Executive Director.
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Mental health supports available for college students
Middlebury College students can access mental health support through Middlebury Counseling, the Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, the Department of Public Safety, TimelyCare and…
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New protocol helps Vermonters in crisis reach mental health support faster
911 call-takers have begun connecting Vermonters directly to trained mental health counselors.
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CSAC’s Rachel Lee readies for a new challenge
Counseling Service of Addison County Executive Director Rachel Lee, who led the county’s designated mental health agency through the COVID years and various hiring and funding challenges, will…
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Amid Medicaid turmoil, CSAC sees some hope
The Counseling Service of Addison County is looking to become a Vermont Certified Community-Based integrated Health Center, or CCBHC, a move that would enhance its services and Medicaid…
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Profiles: Long Trail Psychiatry treats mental health with ketamine
Lauren Bierman spent over a decade working in geriatrics and has worked as a hospice nurse and hospice nurse practitioner since 2016.
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Mental health aid evolves post-COVID
For workers at Counseling Service of Addison County, the pandemic is still very much “a thing,” and they’re tailoring their programs and outreach to help restore peace of…
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Middlebury Police Log: Authorities busy with mental health issues
Middlebury police and Middlebury Regional EMS this past week responded to multiple reports of people dealing with mental health issues.
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Letter to the editor: Mental health piece off base
As the Emergency Services Coordinator at Counseling Service of Addison County, I read Chris Mason’s article ‘New Mental Health Strategy Needed’ from last week’s paper with concern and…
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Living Together: New mental health strategy needed
There is a burgeoning housing crisis in Vermont, as evidenced in our state’s shockingly high rate of unhoused, and even more shocking increase in that rate — an…
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Vermonters’ options for online mental health care expand
BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont has a new partnership with Valera Health to provide virtual therapy and psychiatry to youth and adult policyholders.
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Balint talks mental health with CSAC
U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., toured Addison County late last week to survey two kinds of hardships from which many area residents are trying to recover — those…
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Quiet space offered to aid people in crisis
The Interlude program is a new mental health urgent-care service located in the Middlebury’s Marble Works complex.
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For this parent, there are no easy solutions for a son’s mental health crisis
I reached a point during the latest mental health crisis with my adult son where the weight of absurdity actually robbed me of my vision and I saw…
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Mental health disparities among Vermont children are clear in youth survey
A biennial survey conducted during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic shows poor mental health among high school and middle school students, especially in groups that previous surveys found have…