A New Hampshire family struggled to find local mental health care for their daughter, leading to years of out-of-state residential programs. Gaps in services left them with no other choice.
Children & Families
The severity of youth mental health needs intensified after the COVID-19 pandemic, with more children exhibiting extreme behaviors.
Heather Preston, an Iowa mom of five adopted sons with behavioral health needs, struggles to find care due to waitlists, low Medicaid funding, and a lack of therapists across the state.
Thousands of restraints and seclusions used on students each year reveal fractured interpretation of Maine law.
Even with incomplete data, experts say districts show alarming reliance on practices meant for emergency use.
Most people who have suffered a tragedy don’t want to talk to a reporter about it. Here's how one reporter navigated that challenge for a series on orphanhood and child bereavement.
A cash-assistance program for expectant moms and babies, which first began in Flint more than a year ago, is growing its reach to hundreds more families across Michigan.
"So much of what ails my children that I care for, so much of what makes people sick at a population level, the root cause is poverty," says Dr. Mona Hanna, the pediatrician who helped expose the Flint water crisis.mo
Native American kids in Montana are placed in foster care at five times the rate of white kids. A data-driven project explores the causes and community-led solutions to reduce this disparity.
Attorney Therese Yannan had represented children in state custody for many years before she sued New Mexico in 2018. She was seeing a pattern of resources not being made available.