Turner-based MSAD 52 to review 'Gender Queer' following parent challenge
A committee has been formed to review the graphic novel and evaluate its appropriateness for high school students.
Source: sunjournal.com
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Poland woman points finger at system for not preventing murder
Yaicha Provencher says she was never told about a long-term treatment program available in Maine, despite her ex-boyfriend's many hospitalizations.
Source: sunjournal.com
Ex-girlfriend says the mental health system failed a Poland man accused of killing his brother
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.
Source: mainepublic.org
Mental health program went unused by hospitals for mentally ill Poland murder suspect
A "progressive treatment program" releases patients conditionally pending compliance to treatment.
Source: wmtw.com
John Nutting: All legislators need to use common sense
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 […]
Source: sunjournal.com