The teams, generally consisting of a licensed clinician and a peer support specialist, operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
More mobile crisis outreach teams, or MCOTs, are getting ready to roll in Montgomery County, Maryland.
The teams, generally consisting of a licensed clinician and a peer support specialist, operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Currently, there are three MCOTs operating across the county — and a grant to add two more teams has been secured.
Another two teams could be added in the future — they’re included in Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich’s FY2025…
The city of Boston unveiled a report on Wednesday detailing increasing mental health issues among city residents — particularly youth — as well as a $21 million initiative to improve services over the next five years.
“Our youth are in crisis,” said Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission. “Many young people in Boston are struggling with their mental health and wellbeing. … An increasing number of high school students have considered and even planned suicide.”
From 2015 to 2021, the percentage of public high school students reporting persistent sadness increased from 26% to almost 44%,…
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, has revealed that she is receiving a preventative course of chemotherapy for an unspecified type of cancer.
In a video statement issued on Friday, Catherine said that when she underwent major abdominal surgery in January, “it was thought that my condition was non-cancerous” but that “tests after the operation found cancer had already been present.”
She said doctors recommended that she do a course of preventative chemotherapy and that she is now in the early stages of that treatment.
Here are some explanations of terms she used and what we know about her diagnosis:
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SALT LAKE CITY — It’s taken a little bit, but most reservoirs across Utah are looking healthy as they reached nearly-full water levels after years of drought conditions.
As of Thursday, over half of the state’s reservoirs were over 85 percent full, with only three (Gunnison, Smith and Morehouse, Yuba) under the 60 percent mark.
When all of Utah’s reservoirs are combined, they are at 84% full, which is a 32% increase over the same time in 2023 and 21% over the median.
The following reservoirs are at full or near-full capacity:
Big Sand Wash – 99.4%
Deer Creek –…