mental illness
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PublishedMarch 4, 2023
Commentary: Police working to repair Maine’s broken system of crisis response
Partnerships with mental health and substance use liaisons allow us to embed skilled professionals with police officers on calls. That’s what a robust, appropriate response looks like.
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PublishedFebruary 18, 2023
Our View: Maine Deadly Force Review Panel report doesn’t shed enough light
Failures to deescalate situations we can clearly understand. Why don't we know more about the police interventions that succeed?
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PublishedDecember 15, 2022
Commentary: When are we going to talk about Kanye West and mental illness?
Not everyone can comfortably adjust to being a household name who is watched and recorded by strangers wherever they go.
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PublishedDecember 2, 2022
Maine Voices: Statewide crisis of homelessness demands an immediate response
While faith communities have been working with municipalities and nonprofits to alleviate the desperation, state leadership is required to solve widespread suffering this winter.
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PublishedMay 9, 2022
To help those in crisis, new center in Portland turns to people who’ve faced one
Only half the staff at Living Room Crisis Center are clinicians, like nurses. The rest are peer support specialists, whose life experiences are their credentials.
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PublishedMay 8, 2022
Our View: Too much mental illness goes untreated
The barriers to mental health services, including cost, access and stigma, can be overcome. But first, we have to talk about them.
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PublishedApril 2, 2022
Commentary: Drummer Taylor Hawkins’ death reveals the vulnerability we all share
There is so much more to every story than we will ever see – or than headlines can ever tell us.
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PublishedMarch 4, 2022
Our View: Whatever you call it, solitary confinement should be banned
There’s disagreement over how the practice is used, but by any name, isolation does more harm than good to people incarcerated in Maine.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2022
Commentary: People should not be incarcerated in ‘just freezing’ conditions
Vague regulations regarding temperature have resulted in harm and even death for those behind bars.
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PublishedFebruary 26, 2022
Maine Med president: Lack of state mental health investment is major factor in ER violence
MMC nurses are right to protest, as emergency rooms have become a place of last resort for people who have a diagnosis but can’t access appropriate treatment options.