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When a court orders a person to a progressive treatment program, that person is assigned a team of mental health providers they have to see.

Once state lawmakers get down to work in Augusta in January, one of the first bills on the table will be a push to get federal mental health funding

More mental health advocacy groups are speaking out against Maine’s so-called progressive treatment program following the Thanksgiving Day murder of Gabriel Damour in Poland.

Families of loved ones with serious mental illnesses say the state's disability advocacy organization has stood in the way of expanding services.

Families of loved ones with serious mental illnesses say the state's disability advocacy organization has stood in the way of expanding services.

A committee has been formed to review the graphic novel and evaluate its appropriateness for high school students.

Yaicha Provencher says she was never told about a long-term treatment program available in Maine, despite her ex-boyfriend's many hospitalizations.

The ex-girlfriend of Justin Butterfield said that over the last three years, he has been hospitalized at least eight times after paranoid and sometimes violent behavior, only to be released within days. Yet even after Butterfield reportedly set a building on fire and put his own life in danger, she said hospitals never tried to involuntarily commit him or seek court-order treatment.

A "progressive treatment program" releases patients conditionally pending compliance to treatment.

After the unspeakable 2021 murders in Turner, a broad coalition of groups approached the Legislature to change the standard that law enforcement uses to bring someone to an emergency room for a mental health evaluation. Parents, NAMI, the psychiatrists’ association, ACT teams, county sheriffs and state police all lobbied to lower the standard from “Imminent […]