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Collaborating in the Field: Doubling Down on Education About the Co-Response Model

Collaborating in the Field: Doubling Down on Education About the Co-Response Model

In one way or another, Sarah E. Abbott, PhD, Director of the Center for Crisis Response and Behavioral Health, has spent the majority of her career at the intersection of individuals experiencing a mental health crisis and the community at large. Her first exposure to work in America (after earning her BA at home, in England) came via recruitment by a nonprofit agency in central Massachusetts where Abbott spent several nights each week in a residential group home for individuals ages 18-25 with a mental health condition. While there, she witnessed first-hand the challenges associated when police responded to calls—which didn’t always go well.

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Fall Update: Academics, Assets, Aspirations

The President's Corner

Black Mental Health Graduate Academy Inaugural Brunch

On September 18, 2016, Dr. Natalie Cort, Director of William James College's Black Mental Health Graduate Academy, hosted the Academy's inaugural brunch.

Welcome to the Academic Year 2017

The President's Corner

Henrietta Silverman Bench Dedication

Empathy, Relationship and Generativity

Reflections on Dallas, St. Paul and Baton Rouge

The President’s Corner

Flag Raised to Honor Lives Lost in Orlando Shooting

The President's Corner

In Response to the Boston Globe Spotlight Team on the MA Mental Health System

Dear William James Community: The series by the Boston Globe Spotlight Team on the Massachusetts Mental Health System has the potential to bring much needed

History of LGBT Pride Month

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. The Stonewall riots were a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In the United States the last Sunday...

@PulseOrlando

The tragic shootings of innocent people this week in Orlando bring a cluster of feelings to each of us. Americans mourn the deaths of 50 vulnerable people

2016 Commencement Speech from Joan Wallace-Benjamin

President and CEO of The Home for Little Wanderers

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