A school district in Michigan isolated children with disabilities more than 4,000 times – and administrators will not reveal why.
Mental Health

Free Press investigation finds some Michigan educators using restraint and seclusion improperly, with no law to stop them.

Lawmakers concerned about New Mexico’s worst-in-the-nation rate of alcohol-related deaths are focused on revising how the state taxes alcohol.

Jasmine Cuevas is among millions of parents whose children are struggling with their emotional and mental health.

A life fraught with constant change and uncertainty.

Demand for mental health services for children has swelled as expressions of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts have increased alarmingly.

A reporter shares her own family's struggle with mental illness, and the toll it has taken.

Securing the physical, emotional and informational support of doulas.

Highly valued, proven effective and undercompensated.

Imperial County officials routinely keep people on psychiatric holds for longer than 72 hours, often in ill-equipped facilities and without a formal hearing that’s required by law, an inewsource investigation found.