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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAccording to reports from the Florida Department of Health in Polk, in 2022, about 17% of adults (18 years or older) reported poor mental health on 14 or more days out of the past 30. In the same year, about 30% of middle and high school students who attended Polk County public schools reported having felt sad or hopeless for two or more weeks in a row and stopped doing usual activities in the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is nothing as unbearable as seeing a person suffer and knowing that there may be a resource available to meet their behavioral health needs,\u201d said Holly Vida, Behavioral Health Program Manager. \u201cOur hope is that this website will provide a starting point for individuals seeking resources for themselves, or for friends or family members trying to help a loved one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to behavioral health information, the website provides resources to help Polk County residents address supplemental aspects of well-being, including health coverage, transportation to and from medical appointments, food resources and housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The website was funded through a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visit the website at www.polkcountybehavioralhealthresources.org<\/a> or www.pcbhr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Polk County\u2019s behavioral health team has launched a website to help those seeking mental health and substance use disorder resources in the county. The website features a directory of behavioral… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"6481","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDZcL3VuZGVyc3RhbmRpbmctZ3JpZWYtMTAyNHg2ODMtMS53ZWJwP2ZpdD0xMDI0JTJDNjgzJnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiUG9sayBDb3VudHkgTGF1bmNoZXMgV2Vic2l0ZSBmb3IgQmVoYXZpb3JhbCBIZWFsdGggUmVzb3VyY2VzIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.unUqFm45-CUPe-9_WJ6W3Hv50TD97DbwQHEsBbAFqPgMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":56321,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/understanding-grief-1024x683-1.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6481],"tags":[11692],"class_list":["post-56320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-polk-county-launches-website-for-behavioral-health-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56322,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56320\/revisions\/56322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}