Governor Glenn Youngkin unveiled his three-year plan to transform Virginia’s behavioral health system, entitled “Right Help, Right Now.” This is a six-pillared approach to address our behavioral health challenges, encompassing crisis care, law enforcement burden, substance use disorder support, behavioral health workforce and service delivery innovation. Governor Youngkin will propose a series of immediate steps to bolster his three-year transformation plan, including over $230 million in new funding for behavioral health in his upcoming budget. The centerpiece of these proposals will include a $20 million proposal to fully-fund 30+ new mobile crisis teams to respond to calls to Virginia’s 9-8-8 hotline.
Virginia's foster care system became increasingly overwhelmed by the exacerbation of children's mental health crises coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, hundreds of children in the foster care system had slept in offices, ERs, and hotels unnecessarily. The team decreased the average number of children sleeping in these conditions by 89%, and they are continuing their work to not only eliminate that practice in Virginia but go upstream to transform the entire system.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s promise to ease, and hopefully erase, the shortage of treatment options for mentally ill Virginians in crisis is one of his boldest and most important initiatives.
Governor Glenn Youngkin today unveiled his three-year plan to transform Virginia’s behavioral health system, entitled “Right Help, Right Now.”
An overhaul may be coming to Virginia’s Temporary Detention Order (TDO) crisis with a new task force announced by the governor. Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a major initiative, the Prompt Placement TDO Task Force, on Tuesday, Dec. 12.
A crash program by state officials has slashed the number of foster care children who were sleeping in offices because they had no other safe place to go.
Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced the launch of a major initiative to end the Temporary Detention Order (TDO) crisis.
Work to reshape the foster care system continues as Virginia faces the same struggle other states have, not enough foster homes for the children who need one.
Kids in Crisis is a 10 News investigation looking into several aspects of the Virginia foster care system.
Virginians who want to skip the check-in line at their next visit to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) are invited to schedule an appointment.