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.
Mental Health & Trauma
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.
Small communities have the same addiction problems as big ones but they often have far fewer resources, with people spread out over large areas.
Iowa youth face a growing mental health crisis worsened by lack of early care, long wait times, and a broken system. Families only get help after crisis, prompting reform efforts.
Immigration status is not the only source of worry for farmworkers in California. Financial stress cause many in the Central Valley additional psychological distress.
In California's Vietnamese American community, caregivers silently endure their own health crisis while tending to disabled or elderly family members, trapped between cultural expectations of filial duty and the crushing reality of round-the-clock care.
As immigration enforcement tightens under the Trump administration, there are a growing number of undocumented Asian immigrants caught in legal limbo — unable to adjust their legal status, return home, or speak openly about their lives.
The very circumstances that made Henry Gaymon such a fitting subject for a story on mental health care also made it very difficult to report out his experience.
Taken from school at 15, Janay Eustace turned trauma into purpose as a champion of equity in child welfare, especially for Black families.