About 23 years ago a group of Kalamazoo-area professionals launched the Southwest Michigan Child Trauma Assessment Center at Western Michigan University to assess traumatized children that has not only become the model for similar centers across Michigan and in Colorado but also has effected change in the state’s child-welfare system and beyond.
A medida que aumentan las preocupaciones sobre la salud mental de los jóvenes, los consultores de salud del comportamiento brindan servicios de asesoramiento en el lugar a los estudiantes en las escuelas de todo el condado de Calhoun. Los trabajadores sociales allí tienen un alto nivel de conocimientos y experiencia en condiciones como el estrés, la ansiedad, el duelo y la depresión.
En el nuevo rol de Marianne Joynt como coordinadora de iniciativas de salud mental para el distrito, puede ir a donde se necesite apoyo para el personal y los estudiantes y elaborar planes para satisfacer sus necesidades lo mejor que pueda.
North Country Community Mental Health and Northern Lakes Community Mental Health provide Carter Kits to first responders. The kits contain sensory items that help distract children with Autism Spectrum Disorder from the stress of being involved in an emergency situation.
St. Clair County Community Mental Health (CMH) Bfit program is geared towards helping children and teens build skills related to physical fitness and good nutrition.
Washtenaw Intermediate School District is working to fight stigma and provide mental healthcare to students with help from Washtenaw Community Mental Health.
Michigan's CMHs rely on families to help recovery and ensure that people function at their highest level.
Nurses surveyed in 2021 said the most common reason they planned to leave their job was that work had negatively affected their health and well-being. The second most common reason was insufficient staffing. Here's why it's important to provide care for them and what some are doing to make sure they get it.
Las enfermeras encuestadas en 2021 dijeron que la razón más común por la que planeaban dejar su trabajo era que el trabajo había afectado negativamente su salud y bienestar. La segunda razón más común fue la falta de personal. He aquí por qué es importante brindarles atención y lo que algunos están haciendo para asegurarse de que la reciban.
The pressure of being a caregiver become more common. AARP estimates the number of unpaid caregivers – roughly one of every five adults – has grown nearly 25% during the last half-decade, to about 50 million people.
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