{"id":692,"date":"2021-05-14T14:44:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T14:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/?p=692"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T15:24:04","slug":"why-vermonters-are-struggling-to-find-help-with-mental-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/why-vermonters-are-struggling-to-find-help-with-mental-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Vermonters are struggling to find help with mental health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Why Vermonters are struggling to find help with mental health care<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/authors\/christina-guessferd\/\">Christina Guessferd<\/a>, WCAX<\/p>\n<p>BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; More Vermonters than ever before are asking for help with their mental health. Our Christina Guessferd looks at how the pandemic has put more strain on the system.<\/p>\n<p>At Northwestern Counseling and Support Services in Franklin County, while the list isn\u2019t as long&#8211; an average one-to-two-week wait&#8211; their resources are severely limited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can meet with someone, however, to get the quality of care that they\u2019re looking for, we\u2019re just not equipped enough to do that right now,\u201d said Danielle Mitchell, the director of children, youth and family services at Northwestern Counseling and Support Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could get you in pretty quick. To see you every week would probably be a stretch,\u201d said Dr. Steve Broer, the director of behavioral health services at Northwestern Counseling and Support Services.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell and Broer say that\u2019s because their caseloads are practically unmanageable due to the extraordinarily high demand for one-on-one sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Link to entire WCAX segment:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2021\/05\/13\/why-vermonters-are-struggling-to-find-help-with-mental-health-care\/\">https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2021\/05\/13\/why-vermonters-are-struggling-to-find-help-with-mental-health-care\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Vermonters are struggling to find help with mental health care By\u00a0Christina Guessferd, WCAX BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; More Vermonters than ever before are asking for help with their mental health. Our Christina Guessferd looks at how the pandemic has put more strain on the system. At Northwestern Counseling and Support Services in Franklin County, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}