Behavioral health

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EMILY — A few dozen friends, family and fellow veterans gathered in Emily Thursday, July 28, to participate in the first Veteran Valor Farm’s charity golf tournament.As a sign of good things to come that day, the rain…

Representatives of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Use and Mental Health Services Administration and High Plains Mental Health Center talk with farmers on a farm southwest of Hays, which is owned by Dylan…

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Aims to reduce deaths and complications that impact minority populations and those living in rural areas Today the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring the availability of quality…

If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental-health crisis, help is available by calling or texting 988. Older people make up nearly half of all farmers and ranchers who die by suicide, indicating that mental-health…

Two factors that make production agriculture an ideal occupation for many farmers — working in the country and being independent — are also catalysts for a mental health crisis in rural America. Isolation and the fierce independence in…

According to a report from the Association of Community College Trustees, roughly 3.4 million students currently attend rural community colleges in the United States. Couple that fact with data from 2021 that shows 50% of community…

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