Police across the United States are rethinking how they use force amid national outrage over questionable shootings and violent arrests. The changes include efforts in Dallas to train officers to…
Ancora Psychiatric Hospital reported the most violence among the state’s four psychiatric hospitals during a nine-month period in 2015, according to a new report published by the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction…
CIT-NJ Center of Excellence Hosts its first Forum On December 7, 2015, The CIT-NJ Center of Excellence held its first state-wide forum. More than 150 law enforcement officers, mental health providers, community…
TRENTON — With a growing number of people with untreated mental illness lodged in jail, prosecutors in Gloucester, Hunterdon and Warren Counties will each receive…
Mental health experts say this type of training may not be prevalent yet statewide due to a stigma surrounding the issue. According to Capt. Stephen Jones of the New Jersey…
Congratulation is going out to Warren County New Jersey’s 9-1-1 Communication Center. This month, on August 25th, 2015 it joined the CIT-NJ Center of Excellence Program after they had 40…
(CNN)At 18, Keith Vidal was a normal teenager, his mom said — a good kid and funny guy who liked basketball, played the drums and enjoyed the beach. But in…
ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, NJ – NAMI-NJ – Morris County Affiliate, the local organization of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, will offer its Family-to-Family Education Program for the fall, beginning Thursday, Sept. 17. NAMI Family-to-Family…
“You find my thinking jumbled and confused,” writes the author, addressing doctors and nurses, “the quantity and register of my speech is fluctuating wildly. But I’m also hyper-attentive to language, as…
Leaders of five New Jersey hospital and health systems are pushing to fundamentally change the state’s mental health system, which they believe is in crisis. Three of New Jersey’s counties—Camden,…