mental health in conneticut

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.

Over the last two years, isolation and virtual meetings and schooling have taken a major toll on all of us, particularly though, our young people. It’s become clear even before this session started that children’s mental health would be a priority. A number of bills aimed at addressing those issues already have wide bipartisan support. One of the bills,...

Lawmakers are looking at changes to the state’s maximum-security psychiatric facility. The legislation follows revelations of patient abuse, many of which were first reported by NBC Investigates. “Bill’s life matters. He is the reason we are here today,” Nancy Ailsberg, a member of the Whiting Task Force said.  Alisberg is talking about William Shehadi, the patient who was abused...

Some victims of people housed at Whiting Forensic are concerned about some changes being proposed to the facility.

We know that kids have really struggled during the last two years of the pandemic. The Connecticut Education Association (CEA) is trying something new to raise awareness about the problems both students and staff face on a daily basis.      The CEA is taking to social media with a campaign called “What You Don’t See.” “One of the things...

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...