UConn Researchers Impacting Mental Health Treatment in Prison Population

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UConn Researchers Impacting Mental Health Treatment in Prison Population
With current national interest in mental health and corrections in light of recent tragedies, Dr. Robert L. Trestman, professor of medicine, psychiatry and nursing and executive director of Correctional Managed Health Care at the Health Center … Read more on UConn Advance (blog)

DeWolf, from Greer, appointed to Mental Health Center board of directors
Nikki Haley and the legislative delegation to the Greenville County Mental Health Center board of directors. Enlarge photo. Marci DeWolf of Greer has been appointed by Gov. Nikki Haley and the legislative delegation to the Greenville County Mental … Read more on GreerToday

EEOC settles suit over illegal firing with Regional Mental Health
The EEOC sued Regional Mental Health Center in 2010, claiming the organization illegally fired an employee, Felicia Nichols, after she asked in April 2009 to take time off for breast cancer treatments. The agency denied the time off and then fired her … Read more on Post-Tribune

Tennessee Community Mental Health Centers in Spotlight at Senate Hearing – WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 — At a hearing today of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the chief executive officer of Centerstone in Tennessee testified that an initiative Ranking Member Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) launched in Tennessee as governor 30 years ago was an example of how education and mental health systems can work together “for the sole purpose of addressing our health care crisis.”