Tag: mental health

  We talk this week again about the drug crisis in Minnesota and the new research piece by the Center. This time we look at the major cost not just to individuals and families but to society as well, especially at the local level.

  While the nation struggles with the opioid crisis, in rural areas the drug of choice is an old foe: meth. Cheaper and purer than it was ten years ago, it has made a strong comeback, particularly in rural areas. This week, Jim and Marnie talk about the Center’s upcoming article on what is not ...

Across Minnesota, the “opioid crisis” is so much more than just opioids June 2018 By Marnie Werner, VP Research & Operations For the executive summary, click here. For a printable version, click here. If there were any doubt that opioids are the major health emergency of our time, two facts can put that doubt to ...

EXCERPT: “A proposal moving quietly through the Legislature would take a step toward closing gaps in mental health facilities. The bill would provide $80 million for state grant programs to construct six mental health crisis centers around the state that cities, counties, hospitals and other public entities would operate to serve mentally ill and chemically dependent ...

Marnie and Jim continue their conversation about the impact of access to mental health care services in Greater Minnesota.

First of a two-part talk with CRPD’s Research Director Marnie Werner about the Center’s newest report discussing access to mental health services in Greater Minnesota.

Limited resources are putting growing pressure on rural communities May 2017 By Marnie Werner, Research Director The mobile crisis and outreach teams of the Northern Pines Mental Health Center in Brainerd are busy. In 2016, they made 1,200 calls in the counties they cover—Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Morrison, Todd and Wadena—and most of those calls ...