Mental health
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2020
Our View: Benefits should reflect sacrifices of Maine’s crime analysts
To ensure justice for others, they deal with disturbing evidence of the ugliest crimes our state sees.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2020
Lawmakers push for money to strengthen Maine’s mental health crisis system
A bill before the Legislature would put roughly $1.2 million toward bolstering the state's mental health system in the hopes of freeing county jails of the burden of caring for the state's mentally ill.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2020
Lawmakers to propose intervention centers for mental health emergencies
Sen. Cathy Breen and Rep. Charlotte Warren will present recommendations Monday from a mental health working group and urge support for a bill to create four regional mental health centers.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2020
Commentary: Maine police working together to defuse mental health crises
The evidence-based Crisis Intervention Team Program helps people access treatment and diverts them from the criminal justice system.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2020
Our View: ‘Too graphic’ TV ad could have eased moms’ minds
A commercial pulled from the Oscars broadcast showed postpartum life as it usually is. Why was that so scary to ABC?
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2020
Maine Voices: Mental health care system continues to abandon the people who need it
This system has already deprived my father of a purposeful life. Now it has failed the clients of Shalom House.
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2020
Services sparse for Shalom House program’s former clients
The community integration program, cut because of reimbursement costs, forces 170 clients to find service elsewhere.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2020
Maine lawmakers urged to tackle mental health crisis in the state’s jails
A bill before the Legislature aims to ease the strain on the corrections system, including county jails, which increasingly house people with mental health issues who face criminal charges.
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PublishedDecember 30, 2019
Commentary: It’s time to house Maine people who are ill
Today, 30 percent of our resources are being spent on 1 percent of our population because they remain homeless.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2019
Maine Voices: Adding barriers to employment would hurt asylum seekers, Maine communities
Mainers who want to make it easier for newcomers to find work should comment on two proposed federal rule changes.
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