Podcast: Silver Hill, Human Services on the New Canaan Urgent Assessment Program [Part 2 of 2]

This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Dr. Andrew Gerber, president and medical director of Silver Hill Hospital, and Bethany Zaro, director of New Canaan’s Department of Human Services, about their partnership in developing and operating the Urgent Assessment Program. This is the second of a two-part series that focuses on mental health. The first part, an interview with Silver Hill and the Town Players of New Canaan about an upcoming production of “Ordinary People,” can be found here. 

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Podcast: Talking ‘Ordinary People’ with the Town Players, Silver Hill [Part 1 of 2]

This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Deborah Burke, director of an upcoming Town Players of New Canaan production of “Ordinary People,” as well as Dr. Michael Groat, chief clinical officer at Silver Hill Hospital, about how their organizations are working together on a very unique and important show. Here are recent episodes:

Podcast: Susannah Lewis and Jazmin Maldonado of Silver Hill Hospital

This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to two people who work at Silver Hill Hospital—Jazmin Maldonado, a senior clinician in the residential outreach program, and Director of Community Relations Susannah Lewis—about a rise in behavioral health issues, including anxiety and depression, especially among girls during the pandemic. We also talk specifically about what’s been involved in training “mentors” among the staff and volunteers who run programs for LiveGirl, a locally based nonprofit organization whose founder, Sheri West, was our podcast interviewee last week. Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:

Podcast: LiveGirl Founder Sheri West

This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to New Canaan’s Sheri West, founder of LiveGirl, about the nonprofit organization’s efforts to address a growing mental health crisis among young people and especially girls. An important part of LiveGirl’s plan includes a new partnership with Silver Hill Hospital to help train mentors. We plan to interview Silver Hill for next week’s podcast. Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0:

First Selectman Proposes Fund To Help New Canaanites In Need of Silver Hill’s Psychiatric Services

New Canaan’s highest elected official is proposing a new fund to be overseen by a prominent nonprofit organization that would help town residents seeking psychiatric treatment following substance-related emergencies. 

The fund would cover treatment at Silver Hill Hospital for people coming out of Norwalk Hospital following emergency admissions for overdoses or other problems involving substances, according to First Selectman Kevin Moynihan. About $500,000 would be needed to kickstart the fund, to be managed by the New Canaan Community Foundation and serving those who are unable to pay for treatment at the Valley Road facility through private health insurance, he said during a press briefing held Wednesday in his Town Hall office. “Money should never be the issue,” Moynihan said during the briefing, also attended by Patch and Hearst Connecticut. “Families that face that a crisis don’t know what to do and they don’t know where to turn. And there are agencies around—if you decide to go to this one in Westport or go to this one in Greenwich, who are you dealing with, right?