Author: Suellen Griffin

Adequate mental health funding helps children

For far too long, there has been discouraging news about New Hampshire’s mental health system and the obstacles that people in a psychiatric crisis encounter when trying to access care. Hospital emergency department boarding is a daily occurrence; high staff…

2018 mental health legislation: a recap

There were three major issues before the Legislature in 2018 that the NH Community Behavioral Health Association (CBHA) identified as the most critical to addressing our state’s ongoing mental health crisis: Medicaid expansion reauthorization; workforce shortages in the behavioral health…

Medicaid expansion is critical for NH

Two years ago at this time, Annette Carbonneau of NAMI-NH and I authored an opinion piece in support of House Bill 1696, the legislation that reauthorized the NH Health Protection Program, also known as Medicaid expansion. (“Why Medicaid expansion is…

The workforce roots of NH’s mental health crisis

Recent press reports and opinion pieces regarding the mental health system in New Hampshire have focused on the shortage of psychiatric beds at NH Hospital and its impact on local hospital emergency rooms. Daily email updates from the Department of…

Mental health treatment and Medicaid expansion

The NH Health Protection Program, which now provides access to health care to over 47,000 people in our state, will sunset later this year unless the Legislature enacts a bill to reauthorize it. The program is New Hampshire’s version of…

First aid applies to mental health too

Mental Health First Aid helps people identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders before a situation becomes a crisis

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