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Derek Brown Will Not Seek Another Term As Utah’s Republican Party Chair
The chair of Utah’s Republican Party announced Tuesday he won’t seek re-election. Derek Brown’s first and only two-year term is coming to an end later this spring. He said in an email to supporters he needs to dedicate more time to his family. He also wrote that he’s proud of all the party has accomplished over the past two years. Those achievements include getting the state GOP out of debt and winning back the 4th Congressional District. The next party chair will be elected by party delegates at the next state convention.
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Marking a year since COVID-19 was declared a worldwide emergency, Utah health experts are warning of what one called “a second pandemic within that pandemic.”
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health has likely not been fully realized yet, but studies are already showing concerning trends, including increases of anxiety, depression and substance abuse in the state and nationwide, local mental health experts said in a virtual news conference hosted by the University of Utah’s Huntsman Mental Health Institute.
“A year ago today, we began to go into a circumstance that we’ve never had before in our lifetimes,” Dr. Mark Rapaport, CEO of the Huntsman Mental Institute, said Thursday.
SALT LAKE CITY Marking a year since COVID-19 was declared a worldwide emergency, Utah health experts are warning of what one called a second pandemic within that pandemic.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health has likely not been fully realized yet, but studies are already showing concerning trends, including increases of anxiety, depression and substance abuse in the state and nationwide, local mental health experts said in a virtual news conference hosted by the University of Utah s Huntsman Mental Health Institute. A year ago today, we began to go into a circumstance that we ve never had before in our lifetimes, Dr. Mark Rapaport, CEO of the Huntsman Mental Institute, said Thursday.
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Responses have been edited for length and clarity.
On what the Utah Legislature has done to prevent suicides so far:
“In the past eight sessions, we ve passed nearly two dozen mental health and suicide prevention related bills. And last session was probably the best session in the state s history for mental health. In fact, really the only bill that survived the cuts last summer when we had a special session related to [COVID-19] was the House Bill 32. That was a crisis services bill that provided a lot of funding for crisis resources. And the timing, frankly, couldn t have been better because we ve seen a huge uptick in those requests for those services during the pandemic. So the momentum has been building over the past eight, nine years. And we have a number of bills this very session that we re considering to continue to make strides in those areas.”