connecticut mental health

Within the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services is the Office of Mental Health Equity, a division dedicated to helping communities of color in need of mental health and substance use assistance through culturally competent programs. Samia Hussein is the division’s director, working to help people connect with the services the state makes available. She’s working to get...

A campaign called ‘What You Don’t See’ aims to address issues that educators and students experience but are invisible to the ones making the decisions.

Figuring out how to treat mental illness and substance abuse in our communities is not a new conversation, and there is no one size fits all solution. In Recovery: Conversations on Mental Health, NBC Connecticut spoke to individuals who live with mental illness, experts who try to understand and treat these conditions, and people who run programs trying to...