Guest Blog: A Stigma that Kills 

by Alexandria Lacoste | Feb 25, 2022

Vermont High School Student Shares Her Brush with Suicide Editor’s Note: Alexandria “Lexi” Lacoste, 17, is a 12th-grader at Burr & Burton Academy in Manchester, Vt. She survived a suicide attempt when she was in the eighth grade. She now helps other teens who are...

Mental Health Advocacy Day Highlights Local Voices

by COVIDSupportVT | Feb 8, 2022

Legislator-Advocate Becca Balint Shares Advice on Coping with Triggers At Mental Health Advocacy Day, an annual event for seven years now, people living with mental health challenges get to tell their stories to people who have the power to make a difference. Becca...

Beyond the Lift: Winter Sports for the Rest of Us

by COVIDSupportVT | Feb 3, 2022

Winter Hiking & Other Free Frolics for Surviving February in Vermont Sure, Vermont is known for its world-class alpine skiing and snowboarding. And rightly so. But for a substantial proportion of Vermonters, dropping a few hundred bucks for a family day at the...

Reckoning with a Racist History

by COVIDSupportVT | Feb 1, 2022

Getting to the Root of Racial Disparities in Healthcare How does our country’s racist history drive health disparities across medicine? Whether overt or covert, race-based prejudice and discrimination lie at the root of the widely divergent health outcomes for Black...

Finding the Queer Joy in Vermont

by COVIDSupportVT | Jan 28, 2022

Outright Vermont & LGBTQ+ Youth Battle Doom & Gloom In an era when doom and gloom dominate the headlines, Outright Vermont has a message for LGBTQ+ youth: find the queer joy.  Vermont youth who are queer or other-gendered stand at the intersection of two...

Covid Positive? Managing Anxiety in Isolation

by COVIDSupportVT | Jan 20, 2022

Practical Guidance from COVID Support VT Clinical Psychologist As the Omicron variant sweeps through the state, more Vermonters find themselves or a family member testing positive for Covid. We all probably know someone who’s sick with Covid and in isolation. And many...