Mobile County health officials are reminding residents that support is available for grief and loss, from Employee Assistance Programs and faith-based counseling to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Tag: community mental health
Crime
How a Downtown Mobile Attack Exposed Cracks in the Region’s Mental Health and Court Systems
A downtown Mobile attack during last week’s storm has drawn scrutiny to how the accused, a man with a long arrest record and untreated schizophrenia, kept cycling through the local jail, courts and mental health system without being stopped.
Baldwin County
AltaPointe CEO Urges Congress to Overhaul Mental Health System After String of Mass Shootings
The head of AltaPointe Health Systems, which serves Mobile, Baldwin and Washington counties, is calling on Congress to pass mental health reform legislation, arguing chronic underfunding and stigma — not gun policy alone — are at the heart of the nation’s response to mass violence.