131st Maine State Legislature (2023-2024)

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Maine needs to devote more resources to mental health

Jun 7, 2023

A lone, socially-distanced figure stands at the end of a dock jutting out into Portland Harbor on Thursday Jan. 14, 2021. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Malory Shaughnessy is the executive…

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

May 12, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Malory Shaughnessy, Executive Director, Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health, Maine. 207-400-1540, mshaughnessy@masap.org Betsy Sweet, Senior Policy Advocate, Maine’s Behavioral Health Community Collaborative. 207-441-3060, betsysweet@aol.com Governor Mills Signs Proclamation Supporting the Movement to Prioritize Mental Health May is Mental Health Awareness Month Augusta, Maine – May is Mental Health Awareness…

Our View: Give young psychiatric patients somewhere to go

Mar 24, 2023

Legislating for new mental health facilities may not sit well with everyone. We should be far more uncomfortable with the alternative: leaving vulnerable young Mainers hanging in the balance. No measures should be off limits when it comes to the restoration and repair of Maine’s failing mental health services – and that includes creative legislative…

Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health Services, Maine

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