Tag: mental health
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Amid legislative action on ‘Larry’s Law,’ report says mentally ill and intellectually disabled don’t belong in personal-care homes
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News As state legislators move to change the procedure for admitting mentally ill patients to personal-care homes, a new report argues those patients shouldn’t be...
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Extensive series focuses on the many faces of mental illness
Mental illness in Rowan County is the subject of an eight-part series of stories written by Noelle Hunter for The Morehead News. With Part 1 largely an introduction to the...
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Rosalynn Carter Fellowships help journalists report about mental health; applications due April 16
The Carter Center Mental Health Program is providing six Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for journalists to report on a selected mental-health or mental-illness topic for one year. The center overseen by...
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Monday, Oct. 10 is World Mental Health Day
Oct. 10 is World Mental Health Day, observed with the aim of raising public awareness about mental health issues. On average, Kentuckians report four mentally unhealthy days per month. Adults...
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Federal supervision of Oakwood mental-health facility ends
The federal supervision of Oakwood, the long-beleaguered Somerset facility for the mentally disabled, is no longer necessary and will end, officials announced yesterday. The move means the Kentucky Cabinet for...
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Caregivers of wounded soldiers find their lives are also changed; getting compensation
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan disproportionately affect rural areas, which provide more than the average number of recruits. The soldiers who make it home alive come back changed, with...
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Workshop Aug. 4-5 will help health groups with policy, programs
A two-day workshop intended to help health coalitions and organizations make progress at the policy level and implement evidence-based programs will begin Aug. 4. On the first day, speaker Monte...
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Fellowships of $10,000 available for reporting on mental health
Each year the Carter Center Mental Health Program awards six Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism to six American journalists. They get a stipend of $10,000 to report on a mental health topic...
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Longtime legislator gets national award for helping mentally ill
State Rep. Jimmie Lee of Elizabethtown, left, today received the national Jacob K. Javits Award, an honor given to legislators who advocate for mental health services. “It just blows my...
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Three Ky. physicians and one nurse practitioner investigated for high numbers of prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs
State and federal officials are investigating three Kentucky doctors and one nurse practitioner because of the unusually high amounts of antipsychotic drug prescriptions they write for Medicaid patients. In 2008...