Groundworks Collaborative, grieving last week’s murder of a staffer, is set to receive help this month from the state’s hotel-housing program and local social service providers.
“There’s a wish we have when the unthinkable and tragic happens like this to find a simple answer,” a fellow social worker said. “There are not simple answers.”
In partnership with the Vermont Mental Health Department, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center is conducting a feasibility study for a 12-bed youth inpatient psychiatric unit.
Vermont can show it cares by building child psychiatric beds and putting the structures in place to hire and retain pediatric mental health care professionals.