{"id":983,"date":"2022-12-12T21:44:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/?p=983"},"modified":"2022-12-14T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:29:52","slug":"how-local-organizations-are-supporting-mental-health-in-franklin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/how-local-organizations-are-supporting-mental-health-in-franklin-county\/","title":{"rendered":"How local organizations are supporting mental health in Franklin County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FRANKLIN COUNTY \u2014 While&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.samessenger.com\/news\/how-age-well-and-united-way-are-helping-franklin-county-residents-meet-their-basic-needs\/article_6d5c4d54-7198-11ed-a9c3-f749c95b405f.html\">meeting basic needs<\/a>&nbsp;is essential to fostering healthy and happy communities, supporting mental health is also an area being addressed by nonprofits such as United Way of Northwest Vermont and Northwestern Counseling &amp; Support Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Youth in Vermont are facing increasing mental health issues with over&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/npr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com\/legacy\/sites\/vpr\/files\/202103\/mental_health_impacts_on_vermont_children_and_youth_final.pdf\">75-80% of waitlist primary pediatric cases<\/a>&nbsp;being mental health related. 40.8% of Vermonters ages 12\u201317 who have depression&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nami.org\/NAMI\/media\/NAMI-Media\/StateFactSheets\/VermontStateFactSheet.pdf\">did not receive any care in the previous year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph Halko, a member of United Way\u2019s board of directors and director of community relations at NCSS, said a barrier to solving this issue is stigma and lack of resources.&nbsp; <strong><em>Read more\u2026 <\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to entire article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samessenger.com\/news\/how-local-organizations-are-supporting-mental-health-in-franklin-county\/article_c105e400-772f-11ed-8c8f-93e3b6be2549.html\">https:\/\/www.samessenger.com\/news\/how-local-organizations-are-supporting-mental-health-in-franklin-county\/article_c105e400-772f-11ed-8c8f-93e3b6be2549.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKLIN COUNTY \u2014 While&nbsp;meeting basic needs&nbsp;is essential to fostering healthy and happy communities, supporting mental health is also an area being addressed by nonprofits such as United Way of Northwest Vermont and Northwestern Counseling &amp; Support Services. Youth in Vermont are facing increasing mental health issues with over&nbsp;75-80% of waitlist primary pediatric cases&nbsp;being mental health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":984,"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\/983"}],"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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}