UL students, faculty criticize handling of student’s suicide
Students and faculty members gathered on UL’s campus to protest the university’s handling of a student’s on-campus suicide.
Students and faculty members gathered on UL’s campus to protest the university’s handling of a student’s on-campus suicide.
Louisiana’s perennially poor health rankings can be blamed on poverty, childhood trauma and a lack of investment in women’s health, according to a report for the LA40by30 initiative.
Facing substantial unmet need among adolescents and children, Vermilion Behavioral Health Systems has added the only Lafayette-area inpatient mental health treatment serving that population.
Local law enforcement agencies say they’re ill-equipped to handle mental health calls. So they’re trying a new approach.
Consisting of two mental health professionals, the team has already assisted on 29 emergency calls. Sheriff Mark Garber hopes the program will save lives and improve public safety.
After a lengthy delay, Lafayette’s City Council is set to vote Tuesday on contentious plans to convert the old J. Wallace James Elementary school into a mental health facility.
As the region’s residents clawed their way out of the unprecedented destruction, scars have become visible, but mental health resources are in short supply.
Compelled by a federal lawsuit, Louisiana set up a mental health crisis response system. After less than a year in operation, its provider for Acadiana shut down.
A pair of local businessmen, hoping to turn a former public school into a mental health clinic, hit a wall of public resistance, putting the project in a tenuous position.
Local developers are hoping to open a mental health facility on Lafayette’s Northside, but a council decision on zoning will determine whether the project gets off the ground.
The pandemic has worsened mental health vulnerabilities by exacerbating pre-existing racial inequities in healthcare. Black therapists are stepping in to close the gap.
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