Concord Monitor – April 24, 2026 By BECKY WHITLEY During my time as a New Hampshire State Senator, I learned that the most powerful voices at the State House are […]
Mayor Chuck Grassie Establishing Youth Mental Health Task Force
Rochester Post – April 22, 2026 By MATT WYATT Mayor Chuck Grassie is announcing that he will form a task force to address youth mental health challenges in the community. […]
Andrea Brochu: I knew the system, still I couldn’t save my son without help
Union Leader – April 15, 2026 By ANDREA BROCHU No parent imagines their child will struggle with mental health. No parent pictures themselves unable to access help, unsure where to […]
Five years later, children are still falling through the cracks
New Hampshire Bulletin – April 9, 2026 By KEN NORTON In February 2021, nearly 50 children were waiting in emergency rooms across New Hampshire for a psychiatric bed. They had […]
Leveraging the Rural Health Transformation Program to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes
National Governors Association – October 6, 2025 Physical and mental well-being are closely intertwined, and both are essential for people to lead their healthiest and most productive lives. The Rural […]
Business, Taxpayer Groups Speak Out Against SB 128’s ‘Stealth Tax’
NH Journal – June 3, 2025 By EVAN LIPS A proposal to fund a new state health care bureaucracy with what critics are calling a stealth fee or tax is […]
Dartmouth Hitchcock to open adolescent psychiatry unit
WCAX – April 1, 2025 By ADAM SULLIVAN LEBANON, N.H. (WCAX) – The Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire is opening a new adolescent psychiatry unit. The six-bed inpatient […]
‘Like my child had died’: For parents trying to help their kids, New Hampshire’s mental health system forces a hard decision
Concord Monitor – March 31, 2025 By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI The top stair was Nicole Sheaff’s bed for months. She slept with one eye open, waiting for her daughter Arlen to […]
House budget panel recommends closing child advocate office
NH Union Leader – March 18, 2025 By KEVIN LANDRIGAN, Union Leader Staff A working group of the House Finance Committee is recommending the elimination of the independent Office of […]
Packard: Changed parental rights bill fixes some ‘flaws’
NH Union Leader – February 19, 2025 By KEVIN LANDRIGAN, Union Leader Staff House Speaker Sherman Packard, R-Londonderry, on Tuesday proposed a complete rewrite of his original parental rights legislation […]