The University of New Hampshire received $400,000 from the state to launch an alternative support group, benefiting as many as 100 students in the first year. A new grant from New Hampshire’s Division of Behavioral Health at the Department of Health and Human Services awarded the University of New Hampshire $400,000 to create alternative peer groups for students in recovery from substance abuse. Through the program, UNH staff will provide psychosocial education, sober social functions, community recovery support, counseling services and family support to students in recovery and their families.
The new approach is meant to reduce interactions between people in crisis and police, as well as to prevent people from getting stuck waiting for care in hospital emergency rooms.
A small group of deaf and hard of hearing Granite Staters participated in an hour-long listening session this week to offer feedback on the rollout of the three-digit mental health hotline coming to New Hampshire this summer.Starting in July 2022,.