Rural Health
News by Topic: Stigma
Sep 11, 2024 - Presents overview of a project led by the Marshfield Clinic Health System to install naloxone boxes in rural communities across Wisconsin. Notes that the project was funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Includes an interview with project leadership on how locations were selected, partnerships with schools, program impacts, navigating stigma, and additional harm reduction initiatives.
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio
Sep 2, 2024 - Highlights mental health challenges for farmers and efforts across the Midwest to connect agricultural workers and their families with mental health resources. Discusses stigma, loneliness, and rural mental health workforce shortages.
Source: Reasons to Be Cheerful
Aug 22, 2024 - Reports on a free telepsychology clinic for rural Iowans. Discusses the lack of mental health services due to workforce shortages in the state, rural specific stressors, and stigma. Highlights the value of training the behavioral health workforce with and in rural communities.
Source: Iowa Capital Dispatch
Aug 19, 2024 - Highlights rural mental healthcare opportunities for access and barriers to care through telehealth. Discusses workforce shortages, stigma, telehealth infrastructure, reimbursement, and more.
Source: Psychology Today
Aug 6, 2024 - Features individuals impacted by Project CARA, an Asheville-based program that utilizes a hub-and-spoke model to bring substance use treatment services to pregnant and parenting people in rural North Carolina. Describes how the program works to address stigma-related barriers and expand access to buprenorphine treatment throughout pregnancy, in addition to other harm reduction services.
Source: 100 Days in Appalachia
Jul 29, 2024 - Highlights a Kansas nonprofit working to help local farmers deal with stress and depression. Discusses farming-related stigma and isolation.
Source: KCUR, NPR
Jul 20, 2024 - Discusses factors contributing to mental healthcare provider shortages in rural Colorado and solutions for addressing the shortage including telemedicine, interventions for farmers and farmworkers, and other policy measures. Highlights the role of stigma as a barrier to care.
Source: Colorado Politics