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Mental health issues are getting a second look lately, in part because of a few incidents in recent days- a mall shooting in Omaha by a teenager said to have mental health problems and last month’s hostage situation at Hillary Clinton’s Rochester campaign office where a mentally disturbed person specifically said he wanted to talk to Senator Clinton about the lack of mental health services in the Granite State. We’ll take a look at where mental health care is in the state – including how access, affordability, and attitudes may or may not have changed.

Guests

• Louis Josephson, President and CEO of Riverbend Community Mental Health in Concord
• Nancy Rollins, Director of the Division of Community-Based Care Services at the Department of Health and Human Services
• Paul Gorman, Board Member with the NH Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and President and CEO for West Central Behavioral Health, the community mental health center associated with the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center. He was formerly Director of Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Developmental Services for the state of New Hampshire, served as the Superintendent of New Hampshire Hospital (NHH), the single public psychiatric hospital in New Hampshire and was the Director of the West Institute at the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center. He also worked for a private psychiatric hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.