As many kids resume instruction this fall, schools can serve as critical access points for mental health services. But the intensity of challenges students face coupled with school mental health workforce shortages is a serious concern.
Former Moss Point, Miss., Mayor Mario King will serve 30 months in prison and spend three years on probation, a federal judge in Gulfport decided today. King and his wife, Natasha King, pled guilty to wire- fraud charges in February after a grand jury indicted them last year.
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves submitted his ruling on the tumultuous lawsuit over Mississippi’s mental health-care system late last night, mandating the appointment of an external monitor to verify progress toward constitutional treatment of residents.
Parties to a long-debated lawsuit against Mississippi’s mental health-care system made their final appeals to District Court Judge Carlton Reeves yesterday, setting the stage for his judgment on how Mississippi will mend its community mental-health offerings in accordance with the U.S. Constitution.
Dr. Michael Hogan, the court-appointed special master advising Judge Carlton Reeves on Mississippi’s ailing mental-health system, has recommended the court adopt many of the State’s proposed remediations for fixing the system
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking an end to its decade-long struggle with the Mississippi Department of Mental Health over inadequate community care, issuing its final plan for the ailing system last Friday.
My wife recreated the “Clark doll test” of the 1940s, with my daughter as her only participant. In the test, children,in this case my 6-year-old, are asked to answer several questions about a white doll and a Black doll. For context, the creators use their test in testimony during the historic Brown v. Board of Education battle over school integration. My baby said that the Black doll looked like her, and that the same Black doll was both bad and ugly.
Patients admitted to Mississippi State Hospital and East Mississippi State Hospital for short-term care of diagnoses such as suicidal ideation, worsening of psychiatric symptoms, or who were in need of medication adjustments are not vaccinated by the hospitals they reside in during their stay.
Moss Point Mayor Mario King resigned his office this morning shortly before appearing in federal court with his wife, Natasha King, where both pled guilty each to one federal felony charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
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