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Safety-net, “neighborhood” health centers date back to Johnson’s presidency and his War on Poverty. Those were the catalyst for what we now call Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), and today 1,368 of them have been…

Funding for States and Territories Will Help Address the Nation’s Overdose Epidemic The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is announcing a…

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and two years into a global pandemic that has highlighted the need for increased access to mental health care, 570 counties across the United States still have no psychologists, psychiatrists or…

Highlights a training program developed by Montana State University to expand access to mental health services in rural parts of the state. Discusses the background of the program, its activities, and the potential for the program to…

Explore full-page version of the map The rate of new Covid-19 infections in rural America climbed by a third last week, the fifth increase in as many weeks, according to a Daily Yonder analysis. New infections in metropolitan…

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Explore the full-page version of the map The number of new Covid-19 infections in rural America climbed for the sixth consecutive week last week, marking the longest continuous increase in new cases since the Delta surge in…

BROWNING, Mont. — As the pandemic was setting in during summer 2020, Justin Lee Littledog called his mom to tell her he was moving from Texas back home to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana with his girlfriend,…

For the second month in a row, the rural vaccination rate has grown by less than half a percentage point, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of federal and state data. The percent of total rural population that has…

As we mark Mental Health Awareness Month, our country faces an unprecedented mental health crisis among people of all ages. Two in five American adults report symptoms of anxiety and depression, and more than half of parents…