Mental Health

Treating their trauma is complex: Language and cultural barriers make it hard for many to access mental health care.

An investigation by KJZZ and the Arizona Daily Star found that physical and sexual abuse, as well as neglect, can occur anywhere — and often, nothing is done about it.

A review of internal records and interviews with a dozen current and former health department staff show what expertise it possesses has long been muzzled or ignored.

New details revealed about a fatal incident within Texas’ understaffed state hospital system, where little information is made public about patients — even when they die.

Nisha thought that violence in a marriage was simply what every Indian wife ‘had to accept’ in her husband’s home. She was only 24.

Michigan educators have secluded and restrained students nearly 94,000 times over the past five school years, a Free Press investigation found.

“Folks need to be served by people who look like them and who maybe had some of their life experiences," as one coalition leader put it.

Lawmakers sought to restrict the use of seclusion and restraints on students in Michigan schools back in 2016. It was only supposed to be used for emergencies, they said.

If Adan Castaneda were charged with a crime and found mentally incompetent to stand trial in October 2022, he would be court ordered to a state mental hospital and stuck in jail for about two years before a hospital bed would become available.

Zach Chafos languished for a total of 76 days in a Maryland ER waiting for a psychiatric bed — part of a growing mental health treatment crisis for teens across the country