Almost nobody has been moved into permanent supportive housing.
Mental Health & Trauma
As the waitlist for a state hospital bed in Texas continues to grow, mental health leaders remain dedicated to the widespread adoption of a strategy known as “Eliminate the Wait.”
Santa Barbara County plans to add another co-response team and reopen its crisis stabilization unit as a locked facility.
This project was produced as project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2022 National Fellowship and its Kristy Hammam Fund for Health Journalism....
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.
The change follows a Sun-Times/Better Government Association investigation last year that documented the impact of “dead end” drug arrests in which people are briefly locked up, only to see the charges soon dismissed.
“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.