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MAMH to implement new partnership-based behavioral health urgent care model for K-12 students

October 3, 2022

MAMH and Mass General Brigham, have awarded grants to five community behavioral health centers and partnering schools' to implement behavioral health urgent care model for K-12 students

MAMH to help lead pediatric behavioral health urgent care pilot

October 29, 2021

As part of a $50 million investment in community partners by Mass General Brigham, MAMH will develop and administer a pilot program to provide students with access to pediatric behavioral health urgent care.

WCVB Channel 5 Boston Promotes #JustAsk

June 15, 2021

WCVB's Mental Health & Well Being Day of Awareness linked young adults to the resources and information available through MAMH's #JustAsk campaign.

In the news

Massachusetts Hoarding Resource Network Strengthens Supports for Homelessness Prevention

August 23, 2024

State House News

The MA Hoarding Resource Network (MHRN) will lead advocacy, technical assistance, and public education to strengthen hoarding support and expand homelessness prevention for older adults in diverse communities across the Commonwealth.

Massachusetts program encourages careers in older-adult treatment

May 7, 2024

Mental Health Weekly

An overview of many of the accomplishments and future plans of the Older Adult Behavioral Health Network (OABHN). OABHN Project Director Cassie Cramer of MAMH is interviewed.

More Boston high schoolers are feeling sad and hopeless, data show

April 1, 2024

Boston Globe

A new collection of survey data shows that women, Black, Latinx, and LGBQ+ students as well as those in low-income neighborhoods are especially vulnerable. MAMH President and CEO Danna Mauch comments on the demand for mental health services in MA.

Middlesex Restoration Center Commission awards crisis diversion pilot to Vinfen

January 23, 2024

Lowell Sun

Danna Mauch, Co-Chair of the Middlesex Restoration Center Commission, lauds the selection of Vinfen as the clinical provider for a new diversion pilot program to minimize arrest, incarceration, and unnecessary hospitalization for people in behavioral health crisis.

‘The biggest gap in health care’: For patients who are involuntarily committed, a steep drop-off follows

November 3, 2023

Boston Globe

MAMH Senior Consultant Bob Fleischner says that the experience of involuntary treatment can have the unintended effect of deterring people from seeking help in the future.

First six months of the state’s mental health overhaul reveal promise and challenges

July 27, 2023

Boston Globe

Thousands of MA residents have called the new Behavioral Health Help Line or received services from one of 25 new Community Behavioral Health Centers this year. MAMH's Danna Mauch says the rollout of these programs has been effective, despite the workforce shortage.