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Increasingly entangled issues of truancy and the lack of child mental health services existing in Madison and surrounding area schools dominated discussion at Madison’s Education Committee meeting Wednesday.
Tensions ran high in the first of six public forums hosted by Madison Police Chief Mike Koval at the Madison Central Library Tuesday.
Stressing the need for immediate action in the city, Madison Police Department Chief Mike Koval announced at a press conference Monday his initiative to combat mental health illness.
The state Senate and Assembly will undergo changes with the addition of two new members to the Joint Committee On Finance and the creation of the two new state Assembly committees for the coming 2015-’16 legislative session.
Gov. Scott Walker signed 62 bills Tuesday that the State Legislature had approved in the final session before the end of the legislative year.
Two years ago, Leland Pan beat John Magnino for the District 5 seat on the Dane County Board of Supervisors. This time around, Pan is up against College Democrats former Chair Chris Hoffman. The District 5 seat, typically held by a University of Wisconsin-Madison student or recent graduate, represents the campus and surrounding area. Students make up the majority of constituents Hoffman and Pan, both UW-Madison seniors, are vying to represent.
Cheryl Strayed’s best seller “Wild” chronicles her journey as a young woman on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and how the trip helped her find herself during a time of great difficulty in her life. But that’s not all she has to offer. “Tiny Beautiful Things” is a collection of anonymous advice columns that Strayed wrote for the website TheRumpus.net under the penname “Dear Sugar.” Additionally, her novel “Torch” tells the story of a family coping with grief after loss.
Five researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health received a two-year, $100,000 grant each to pursue innovative research and education in health, according to a university press release.
Gov. Scott Walker signed seven bills into law Thursday aimed at improving mental-health services in Wisconsin. These bills include crisis-intervention support, youth services and access to counseling and treatment.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee approved the Child Care Tuition Assistance Program’s 2014-’15 budget of $1,075,100 Monday.
The Wisconsin State Assembly passed 12 bills Wednesday, all pertaining to improvements in the health system’s ability to deal with mental health cases. This includes monetary incentives for psychiatric care physicians to expand their area of service and even work in rural areas. Most bills passed unanimously, others received a single no vote from Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend. The bills authorize the spending of an additional $4 million by mid-2015.
The state Assembly passed 13 bills Tuesday that would invest roughly $4 million in mental health care statewide.
State legislators announced Wednesday they plan to introduce a bill to increase access to counseling services for victims of sexual assault.
The fast-pace and turbulence of college puts students at a high risk of experiencing mental health issues during their academic careers, yet a 2012 study showed of the 73 percent of participants who reported a mental health crisis, more chose to suffer alone than to seek assistance. University of Wisconsin-Madison student government leaders hope a new peer-to-peer advising office will change that.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, spoke at the Overture Center for the Arts during part of his two-day visit to Madison. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center along with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute sponsored the Dalai Lama’s Overture panel as a part of the Change Your Mind, Change The World tour, focused on a message that people’s minds can be trained just like muscles.
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Gov. Scott Walker recently announced plans to propose a $29 million increase to mental health services in the state. Of the $29 million, $10.2 million would go toward expanding community-based care programs for individuals with severe mental illnesses and $12.5 million would fund two new treatment units at Mendota Health Institute. While Walker said the proposal is not solely intended for public safety purposes, discussions surrounding mental health began in response to recent mass shootings nationwide.
The Daily Cardinal’s Editorial Board met with Mayor Paul Soglin last week for over an hour. The Mayor opened with an informal statement of his priorities and how Madison has changed in the past 20 years. He continued to answer our questions about several of the topics you see below. Here are some of our thoughts on the areas of the city that Soglin commented on regarding the issue of homelessness.
Gov. Scott Walker announced Wednesday he will include a near $30 million, tax-funded expansion of the state’s mental health care infrastructure in the upcoming state budget.
We’re a nation of 315 million constitutional law scholars. Most Americans avoid the legalese of their credit card contracts like the plague. But the Constitution and specifically the Second Amendment? No problem—we know exactly what it means. But the fact is what you or I think about the Second Amendment is pretty meaningless, because it’s the Supreme Court’s interpretation that counts.
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