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The Youth Mental Health Corps, a first-of-its-kind public-private initiative trains youth to help their peers and get credentials to pursue behavioral health careers to help tackle the youth ...
The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia.The department operates Virginia's public mental health, intellectual disability, and substance abuse services system through a system of forty locally and regionally run community services boards (CSBs) and twelve state-operated facilities [1] which serve children ...
The Institute for the Psychological Sciences (IPS) is a graduate school of psychology and an integral part of Divine Mercy University (DMU) in Sterling, Virginia.The institute was founded in 1999 with the mission of basing the scientific study of psychology on a Catholic understanding of the person, marriage, and the family, as well as being an international center for scholarship and ...
Mental health in education is the impact that mental health (including emotional, psychological, and social well-being) has on educational performance.Mental health often viewed as an adult issue, but in fact, almost half of adolescents in the United States are affected by mental disorders, and about 20% of these are categorized as “severe.” [1] Mental health issues can pose a huge problem ...
The Virginia State Colony for the Epileptics and Feeble Minded was a state run institution for those considered to be “Feeble minded” or those with severe mental impairment. The colony opened in 1910 near Lynchburg, Virginia , in Madison Heights with the goal of isolating those with mental disabilities and other qualities deemed unfit for ...
The problem underscores a widely held consensus that Virginia’s mental health care system is in urgent need of reform, due to what Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration says is an overreliance ...
Adolescent health, or youth health, is the range of approaches to preventing, detecting or treating young people's health and well-being. [1] The term adolescent and young people are often used interchangeably, as are the terms Adolescent Health [2] and Youth Health. Young people's health is often complex and requires a comprehensive ...
Virginia State University was founded on March 6, 1882, when the legislature passed a bill to charter the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. The bill was sponsored by Delegate Alfred W. Harris , a Black attorney whose offices were in Petersburg, but who lived in and represented Dinwiddie County in the General Assembly.