Western Massachusetts has Cause for Hope on Front Lines of Behavioral Health
For too long, in Massachusetts and across America, our system of responding to an individual or family crisis in behavioral health has been a crisis in itself. People experiencing crisis most often faced two highly undesirable options: Being stuck in a hospital emergency room for hours, days or — appallingly — weeks; or being deemed “not sick enough” to require inpatient hospitalization, and usually returned to the community with the mental-health equivalent of a Band Aid.
