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Andra Hollenbeck from NAMI-SO asks about youth mental health options in the Rogue Valley. Guests are Darin Dale from Jackson Care Connect, one of the Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid) providers in the valley, and Sarah Hollingworth, from Kairos,
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NAMI-SO's Andra Hollenbeck brings in reps from two organizations in constant contact with people in danger of self-harm: Jackson Care Connect and Options for Southern Oregon. Chedric Monahan runs the Behavioral Health Program at JCC, and Sarah Small is the Development and Integrated Health Coordinator at Options.
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Suicide rates are higher in rural areas than urban in the United States, by a lot. The mental healthcare community has turned a lot of attention to rural…
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"Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do..."So says Shakespeare, anyway. Frank Tallis might…
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The expression "I lost myself" rolls off the lips fairly easily. But it's a real thing for some people. For a variety of reasons, there are people who…
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Mental illness often shows up early in adulthood, but it can affect a person earlier in life. This month on Compass Radio we hear from Debra, a Southern…
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The idea of our wounded younger selves continuing to haunt us into adulthood was brought up years ago by many experts on the mind. So by now, the idea of…
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Spend too much time consuming news, and you can get a real sense the world is in trouble. Ignoring the news competely is probably not the answer. But…
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Memorial Day gives the Exchange staff a chance to get out of the office... along with all of the people we would potentially interview. So we offer up a…
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We stopped the "warehousing" of people with mental illness years ago. Or did we? The huge state hospitals with thousands of residents are generally gone,…
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Federal farm bills, are, by nature, monsters. They contain federal attitudes toward farming and food in thousands of avenues, from crop insurance to food…
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The Affordable Care Act--Obamacare--put mental health care on par with physical health, as far as health insurance goes. But insurance does not…
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The United States has been at war non-stop since the fall of 2001, almost a lifetime. And by some counts, up to 30 percent of the people fighting for the…
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The criminal justice and mental health systems have become intertwined in America, with many people who need mental health services ending up in jail…