Latest mental health services Stories

Experts from The University of Manchester have revealed their findings from the most in-depth study ever to take place in the UK into the tragic instances of child killing by parents, known as filicide. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found 37 per cent of parents and step-parents who killed their children were suffering from some form of mental illness and 12% had been in contact with mental health services within a year of the offense. Academics from the University's...

George Washington University Study Reveals Promising Practices, Partnerships WASHINGTON, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aiming to expand coverage for critical mental health services, a new study by children's health policy experts at the George Washington University Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) shows that meaningful improvements will also require state and local governments to address the systemic impediments...

Prevention and early intervention for mental health is the solution to avoid another Newtown tragedy. Parent Action for Healthy Kids offers 3 ways that parents can begin challenging the status quo on prevention and treatment of mental health services. Farmington Hills, Michigan (PRWEB) December 20, 2012 Parents everywhere feel helpless and vulnerable and share the grief of the Newtown, Connecticut community. The conversations heard speak of how this could have been...

Flinn Foundation helps make innovative mental health program possible DETROIT, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Development Centers Inc (DCI) has been designated to receive a $50,000 grant from the Ethel and James Flinn Foundation which will be applied toward the establishment of an Integrated Care Initiative program, one of the first of its kind in northwest Detroit. DCI has been a leading provider of behavioral health and human social services in the city since 1983. The...

Organization deploys OpenDNS Enterprise Insights to five locations for comprehensive Web filtering that meets CIPA compliance without agonizing appliance-management. SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) September 12, 2012 OpenDNS, the world's largest Internet-wide security network – making the Internet safer, faster and more reliable for more than 50 million people every day – today announced the San Diego Center for Children is using OpenDNS Enterprise Insights to meet CIPA compliance and gain...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With approximately one in four adults suffering from a diagnosable mental health disorder, coupled with restrictive funding and high case loads, the value of independent living centers (ILCs) providing peer-to-peer counseling is vital to effective mental health services. ILCs are generally thought of as resource centers solely for people with physical disabilities, but across the country, directors and staff at hundreds of centers...

RALEIGH, N.C., March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Preservation Services (FPS) of North Carolina, Inc., a leading provider of mental health services for at-risk and disadvantaged youth and adults with severe and persistent mental illness, today announced it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Psych Support Inc., a Raleigh-based Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency (CABHA). The acquisition of Psych Support will expand FPS's mental health service offerings in Wake...

A recent survey of Michigan parents provides convincing evidence of parental support for mental health initiatives in school. The survey was a cooperative effort between the Michigan Department of Education, the Michigan Department of Community Health and Parent Action for Healthy Kids. Farmington Hills, MI (PRWEB) March 14, 2012 Recent headlines in the news regarding school violence and bullying are an ongoing reminder of the potential dangers of not addressing the mental health needs...

Researchers at The University of Manchester have for the first time shown a positive link between improvements in mental health services and a reduction in suicide rates. Their research is published in The Lancet today (Thursday) in a study by the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness, based at the University's Centre for Mental Health and Risk. Using nine national recommendations for safer services made by the National Confidential...

  Study suggests improved screening for suicidal tendencies by primary care providers is needed Suicidal teens are not likely to get the mental healthcare they need. This is according to a team of researchers at Seattle Children's Research Institute, the University of Washington (UW), and Group Health Research Institute. The study, "Adolescents With Suicidal Ideation: Health Care Use and Functioning," was recently published in Academic Pediatrics. The researchers found that only 13...