Mental Health

Due to lack of funding and stigma, law enforcement is often on the front lines for mental health crises and the aftermath of suicides in California's Mendocino County.

On the heels of the fellowship series "The Children of Central City," the New Orleans City Council recently approved a resolution calling for a citywide approach to childhood trauma.

Folks in underserved New Jersey face adversities that few in America ever even have to think about. How can the state turn the corner in addressing epidemic levels of trauma?

In California's Mendocino County, startling rates of suicide highlight a severe lack of access to mental health care.

In 2017, Mendocino County voters voted for a special sales tax to improve mental health services. Is it making a difference yet?

Exposure to domestic abuse can change how children view relationships, with effects that last a lifetime.

Every ambitious reporter wants to move beyond stories describing problems to stories that spur solutions to problems. But how?

The American justice system is more likely to criminalize children of color instead of understanding their behavior, a leading juvenile justice advocate told a journalists this week.

Trauma researcher Natalie Slopen can't stop thinking about recent news footage showing a tearful father embracing his unresponsive son after a long forced separation.

“The Children of Central City” is a powerful set of stories and videos that uncover the deep emotional and physical scars born by New Orleans’ most vulnerable kids.