Héctor Colón, director of the Department of Health and Human Services, leads Milwaukee County's efforts to improve a fragmented, complex mental healthcare system. Photo by Matthew Wisla. For many central city residents …
Category Archives: Mental Health Care
15 Finds Out: Group works to improve mental health care access …
But, stigma and a confusing health care system are keeping a lot of people from the care they need. “The average diagnosis and treatment of a mental illness takes eight years. We can't go on like that,” Marcia Haaff, the CEO …
The Mental Health Care Overhaul Bill: What You Need to Know …
House Speaker Paul Ryan has declared his support for a Republican-led effort to overhaul mental health care in the United States.
15 Finds Out: Mental illness link to mass violence misleading | WANE
That blame often lands on mental illness. Reports suggest that in the mass shootings in the United States since 1970, around 60 percent of the perpetrators showed symptoms of depression, delusions, and paranoia, …
Mental health needs urgent extra funding to avert crisis, say trust …
In 2015-16 that fell to 11% – a transfer of funding from mental health to acute trusts. Nationally, mental ill-health currently accounts for more than 25% of the total disease burden, but mental health services receive less than …