Healing Minds NOLA

May 2020

Louisiana Sheriffs to release Mentally Ill Inmates for Mental Health Awareness Month [Satire]

Hot off the press!  A spokesperson from the State Sheriffs Association announced today that all inmates with serious mental illnesses, regardless of evaluation and assessment, will be released tomorrow to mark the end of Mental Health Awareness Month. A statement in the notification said:  “We agree with mental health advocacy organizations and individuals across the […]

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Remembering Mental Illness Awareness Week on Mental Health Awareness Month

Dear friends and colleagues, Families, judges, attorneys, law enforcement and providers are increasingly frustrated by barriers that impede their ability to provide loved-ones, clients, residents and patients adequate psychiatric treatment and care. Despite increased resources for mental health care, resources for people with untreated and under-treated serious mental illnesses (SMI) continue to atrophy due to decades long reductions in longterm intensive support programs and

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