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Youth mental health response team coming to Acadiana
The program is part of a state effort to expand resources for youth experiencing mental health challenges.
The program is part of a state effort to expand resources for youth experiencing mental health challenges.
Hearts of Hope, the only sexual trauma center in Acadiana, makes resources for all survivors of sexual assault accessible and safe.
We want to hear from you to better understand how this issue is playing out in Lafayette among patients, parents and providers.
Inpatient psychiatric resources for patients under 18 are scarce across the state, leading many to be placed in treatment hours away from their communities.
Placing counseling students with providers for required training is difficult, especially in post-storm southwest Louisiana. A new program offers assistance.
Police officials cited a lack of staff to man regular patrol while several officers are out on administrative leave following officer-involved shootings.
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.
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