EXPLORE
October 24, 2011
The Board of Directors of the Office on Mental Health/Core Service Agency of Harford County has announced the appointment of R. Terence Farrell as the agency's executive director. Farrell comes to the agency with more than 30 years of human service and mental health program management experience. He was most recently a private organizational consultant and prior to that was the executive director of the North Baltimore Mental Health Center, an affiliate of the Sheppard Pratt Health System.
NEWS
By Russell K. Snyder | March 23, 2011
I am an advocate for adequate funding for public education. I understand how important it is that our schools have the resources they need. However, I am also the leader of an organization that provides high-quality services — including mental health services — to thousands of people in this region, and I am deeply disturbed that mental health funds are being used to restore cuts to education, an area that has historically remained untouched...
NEWS
March 29, 2011
I am the current president of the Community Behavioral Health Association of Maryland (CBH), a group of long established, mission-driven providers of community mental health care to the poorest and neediest Maryland citizens. I was pleased to read your editorial comment ("The General Assembly's to-do list," March 27 ) supporting an increase in alcohol tax. You note — correctly — that the dime-a drink proposal was to provide funds for mental health care; however, the bill on the table now — SB 994 — raises less money, raises it more slowly, and, most importantly, does not fund those distressed though deserving programs.
NEWS
By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Su | April 12, 2011
The woman sat handcuffed in front of Baltimore Circuit Judge Gale Rasin, freshly convicted of second-degree child abuse for beating her 8-year-old grandchild with a belt. She was 44, depressed, diagnosed with bipolar disorder and likely dealing with post-traumatic stress from being raped twice, according to a court medical report, yet she had received little treatment. Her father physically abused her growing up, and she, in turn, abused her own family, Rasin concluded during the hearing.
NEWS
May 10, 2011
I am writing in support of the Sheppard Pratt facility that is proposed to extend the retreat treatment offered at that hospital. Many people are given good care in hospitals and in this area are thrust out on their own with inadequate support immediately upon concluding a course of treatment. I knew someone who actually relocated to Boston because the support services for persons with mental illness were so superior to those in this area, Sheppard Pratt notwithstanding. Indeed, it was the lack of strong "step-down" facilities like the one proposed that was a major concern.
HEALTH
By Scott Calvert, The Baltimore Sun | November 10, 2010
Maryland lawmakers plan to examine the operations of a Baltimore mental health clinic in the wake of an investigation by The Baltimore Sun that revealed high Medicaid billings, and a state regulator said six family members on the nonprofit's board must relinquish voting authority to comply with state law. Del. Peter A. Hammen, a Baltimore Democrat and chairman of the Health and Government Operations Committee, said Wednesday that he plans to...