“When you need help for your family or child, we’ve found that it’s hard to find a Spanish-speaking clinician in Rhode Island,” said Jayashree Nimmagadda, a professor of social work at RIC... Read more »
A pilot program Newport Mental Health kickstarted earlier this year takes a “boots on the ground” approach to mental health and homelessness services. Rhode Island Outreach is a new program out of... Read more »
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/RDRA734XMFDI5JVVFXSGSBYSYY.jpg "Mentally ill NYC jail detainees more likely to harm themselves, data show; Rikers Island lacks treatment options, advocates say")
Mentally ill detainees on Rikers Island and in other city jails have become more likely to deliberately hurt themselves in recent years, data obtained by the Daily News shows. Incidents of self-harm... Read more »