Last Friday Judge Carlton Reeves held a status conference regarding the mental health lawsuit of US v State of Mississippi.

We'll be doing four additional focus groups for parents and caregivers of children aged birth to five years via Zoom and phone conference.

Family support meeting for parents or caregivers raising a child to check in with each other, discuss problems and concerns, and support one another.

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Presented by: Brittany Herrington, PhD, Early Learning and SCD Specialist, REACH MS. During this months meeting, we will discuss what antecedents to behavior are.

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Monthly meeting and online gathering to coach and support parents who are helping other parents in any system.

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What Questions To Ask Schools About Reopening. As schools reopen this fall, parents and guardians are vital collaborators in the decision-making process to keep children safe and healthy. Parents and community members should ask for essential information in three critical areas: Instructional Plan, Academic Support, and Student Support and Safety.

This year’s World Mental Health Day, on October 10, comes at a time when our daily lives have changed considerably as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The past months have brought many challenges: for health-care workers, providing care in difficult circumstances, going to work fearful of bringing COVID-19 home with them; for students, adapting to taking classes from home, with little contact with teachers and friends, and anxious about their futures; for workers whose livelihoods are threatened; for the vast number of people caught in poverty or in fragile humanitarian settings with extremely limited protection from COVID-19; and for people with mental health conditions, many experiencing even greater social isolation than before. And this is to say nothing of managing the grief of losing a loved one, sometimes without being able to say goodbye.

A federal judge overseeing the compliance of Mississippi's mental health care system with federal disability laws has questioned why a state agency has yet to fill a key appointment.