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Now in its second decade, the opioid epidemic has claimed more than 800,000 lives in the United States. This is more deaths than in all U.S. wars and armed conflicts combined “from the Revolutionary War to the present,” according to the article “The...

With summer comes the always-jarring increase in mopeds behaving badly, blaring ambulances roaring through town, and increased helicopter activity for medical evacuations at the Block Island State Airport. With the influx of workers and visitors,...

“We needed a larger space because we were just outgrowing it,” said Lori Kosicki, manager of the Hope Recovery Center.

Steady Habits: Finding mental health solutions for CT kids This last year, spent in a pandemic, has changed the lives of so many. But those changes might be felt most acutely by children. Their routines of family life, social life, and learning, were upended. We’ve heard about a “lost school year,” for kids, but what about just a “lost year?” The problems weren’t just felt by those children with the most acute mental health disorders, but we know that for those children who are most...

Newport Daily News This story is being provided for free as part of a series on childcare during the COVID pandemic, powered by the Solutions Journalism Network and dedicated to delivering solution-oriented stories about problems our community is facing. A pandemic within a pandemic. That’s what experts are calling it.  Subjected to screens in a year of mostly remote learning, children’s mental health has suffered.   Physically distanced from many of the supports and connections that ...

Health officials are warning of the significant, negative impacts that online life has had on youth mental health, but AI-based trainings and online therapy could ensure that health services are reachable wherever the child is.

March 1, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Sam Odrowski The Dufferin Community Foundation is again helping local not-for-profit organizations who continue to struggle with the financial impacts of COVID-19. The foundation is making an additional $30,000 in emergency grant funding available for not-for-profit organizations who have mental health and well-being initiatives in Dufferin County. The deadline for organizations to apply is Feb. 28, w...

R.I. program distributes 10K naloxone kits to community groups THE R.I. DEPARTMENT of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals is among the state agencies working on the newly launched 10,000 Chances Project. PROVIDENCE – Community organizations across the state have received hundreds of naloxone kits and funding to help distribute them as part of a new state initiative to cut down on fatal opioid overdoses in Rhode Island. The 10,000 Chances Project, annou...

Two Connecticut nonprofits have been awarded grants through the Gannett Foundation, including one that is among 16 organizations nationwide to receive a national merit award. Havenly Treats in New Haven has been awarded $50,000 as part of the Gannett Foundations National Merit Award program and another $7,500 through the local operating grants program. The Youth Mental Health Project Inc. in Darien also received $5,000 through the operating grants program. All awards are through the A Communit...