Patients, Residents, Officials Talk Proposed Changes at Sagamore Psych Center at Public Hearing – FARMINGDALE — Residents, patients and local officials gathered at a public hearing to discuss a New York State plan to end inpatient services at the Sagamore…

 

Judge: Woman at center of tragedy can leave psych ward

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BURLINGTON, Vt. — There was no legal basis for holding an Essex woman against her will for 5 1/2 weeks at a psychiatric ward after her estranged husband killed their son and then hanged himself, a Vermont Superior Court judge ruled Friday. Judge Kevin …
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Why This Social Worker Is Fighting for Women and Girls

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Since then, through the community field placements required by the MSW@USC program, Collins has worked in adoptions for a Catholic charity and at a psychiatric facility counseling children in a rape crisis center, a position she's decided to keep part …
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Renz program offers substance abuse care for minority women

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With funding providing by a federal grant from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, minority women age 18 and over will have access to trauma informed services that will provide free substance abuse treatment, mental health …
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