Providers work to improve mental health care

After reviewing and discussing needs and programs addressing Hi-Line mental health issues, including an ongoing survey with opinions on major mental health issues, local health care providers reached a consensus on two keys to improving local services on the issue: collaboration and advocacy.

Some 20 health care and mental health professionals met in Havre last week at a mental health needs assessment meeting. The top issue, they said by the end, was health care providers working together to treat the whole patient.

Trent Lear, clinical director of the Center for Mental Health, which sponsored...