Founder and CEO of Promise Resource Network Cherene Allen-Caraco, center, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the mental health agency's peer-run respite. (Photo credit: Taylor Knopf) This is your ...

When Jennifer Tirado ran into the woods during a mental health crisis, the officer who chased after her told Tirado she had two options: she could either come with him willingly, or he would have to ...

We are living in a (more or less) post-pandemic era that has predictably led to increases in lives interrupted by emotional distress and problems with substances. It’s ‘predictable’ because there was ...

Every year, it’s the same. Jessica Haymes knows she’s supposed to be happy. She sees the Christmas lights and families bustling for gifts in the mall. She hears the Christmas music and the carolers ...

Mia McDermott is no stranger to isolation. Abandoned as an infant in China, she lived in an orphanage until a family in California adopted her as a toddler. She spent her adolescence in boarding ...

May 2—SUPERIOR — Work is underway to open a peer crisis respite home by the fall. Chrissy Barnard, president of National Alliance on Mental Illness Lake Superior South Shore (formerly NAMI Douglas ...

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May 14—SUPERIOR — Douglas County officials are considering giving a portion of opioid settlement funds to Hope Haven Peer Respite to help people in crisis with mental health and substance use ...

Above: Hear a version of this story that aired on 89.1 WUFT-FM. Florida nonprofit corporation Gainesville Peer Respite may be forced to close its doors to the community for good after losing its ...

Peer Support Space prepares to open Central Florida’s first peer-run respite center for mental health. Credit: Yasmin Flasterstein/Peer Support Space Yasmin Flasterstein has personal experience ...

MADISON, Wis.MADISON, Wis. — A nonprofit in Wisconsin will start the nation’s first peer-run respite home specifically for veterans through a more than $300,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of ...

Governor Gavin Newsom's administration has conditionally awarded $3.3 billion in Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program grants, marking the largest investment of its kind in California and ...