Romantha Turner-Miller, BSN RN-CEN Background Considering the state as a whole, Virginia has a very low rate of youth in…
Overcrowding at Virginia’s nine state psychiatric hospitals has renewed calls for the state to build more hospitals. The state hospitals…
Romantha Turner-Miller, BSN RN-CEN May 11, 2021 While recognizing exactly what ugliness this pandemic has meant for our individual and…
Virginia increases justice for those with a mental health, developmental or intellectual disability A highlight from the recent state legislative…
When the pandemic hit, there was a tremendous increase in the number of people concerned about their mental health. The…
Mental Health America (MHA) recently released its State of Mental Health Report 2020, which ranks all 50 states and the…
As my internship with Mental Health America of Virginia (MHAV) comes to a close for the summer, I have done…
**Trigger Warning: death and grief over the loss of loved ones; suicide** I would like to preface this post by…
As higher education institutions began to cancel the spring 2020 semester and some even through this upcoming fall semester, a…
*Mr. Walker is a member of the MHAV Board of Directors. We invited him to write about his personal experience.…