Lawmakers waste chance to make suicide prevention gains
Opinion
by 3 Comments Wyoming students need to learn all the tools they can to help at-risk peers, writes Drake. Despite that, the Legislature killed a school-training measure.
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Wyo legislators should save at-risk youth program
Opinion
by 3 Comments ‘Wraparound’ program uses team-based approach to keep kids from foster care. It makes fiscal sense, Drake writes, for the state to maintain it.
Mental health and addiction emerge as legislative priorities
The state’s dearth of treatment resources claimed a lot of air time as lawmakers met this week, even with debate on contentious budget cuts weeks away.
COVID hammers home need for telepsychology, killed by House
Opinion
by 2 Comments Joining tele-health compact would have aided suicide prevention, treated more patients at home.
Cuts fray Wyoming’s social safety net
Wyoming cut $3 million from substance abuse, mental health and suicide prevention programs, and more than $16.5 million from related treatments.
