A tragic death galvanized them to help people grappling with drug use and mental illness. Now they’re proposing legislative change.

The author of a survey of crisis hotline counselors talks about his experiences and why he wanted to tap into the wisdom of the people who answer calls to 988.

A nurse-led program based in Atlanta equips Black churches across the country with funding and support to make their services more welcoming to people living with dementia and their families, challenging the stigma that often accompanies the disease.

“Every New Yorker deserves access to care, dignity and support, no matter where they are in their recovery journey,” Mamdani said.

About one-third of people who have died in ICE custody since January 2025 are of Asian origin. The majority of them are of Chinese descent.

President Trump’s mental instability and sole authority to launch nuclear weapons make him “a clear and present danger,” according to one doctor.

Despite increased visibility of LGBTQ+ people and progress in policy, most LGBTQ+ adolescents still come out to a hostile and rejecting world. Today, kids who don’t get support at home can connect with online supports and resources – if we continue to create and support those tools.

A new bill would empower youth in foster care to define their own family networks and maintain critical financial resources.

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced efforts to curb psychiatric overprescribing at a MAHA Institute Mental Health and Overmedicalization Summit.

Detainees at North Lake Processing Center in Michigan launched a hunger strike on April 20 to protest inhumane living conditions.

Facing shortening attention spans, educators are stocking their teaching kits with strategies to help students stay engaged in learning.

Emani Davis spent her teens and early 20s advocating for children of imprisoned parents. At 14, she was speaking around the country. By 26, she was physically exhausted and emotionally depleted by reliving the most traumatic events of her life over and over again.

A recent study finds that the judgment calls made when triaging young people with mental health emergencies in the ER are often inaccurate, and Black and Hispanic children are more likely to have their conditions minimized.

More than half of respondents to a 2025 Gallup survey reported experiencing anxiety or panic at work or crying due to work stress. Many are turning to substances to manage that stress.

What COVID-19's "blanket of grief" can teach us, years later, about how best to cope with this unavoidable part of being human.

Buzzballz drinks’ playful packaging and fruity flavors attract young drinkers, much like candy-flavored vapes hook kids on nicotine.

Fountain House aims to build connection by operating “clubhouses” where people with serious mental illness can connect with and support each other. Read more about its Hollywood program here:

Illinois' mental health courts can offer treatment and a path away from incarceration. But only half of participants graduate, and many who might benefit never get a chance.

Anhedonia, the clinical term for “Ozempic personality,” is described as a general loss of pleasure in life.

Jesse Turnipseed is among the preventable casualties that almost immediately followed the December elimination of Idaho’s assertive community treatment, a Medicaid-funded program that provided intensive, in-home mental health care to the state’s most severely ill residents.

To get a good sense of how policy gets made these days in Washington, look no further than Saturday’s signing event at the White House. The bottom line: Damn the clinical trials. Full speed ahead.

When standard toxicology tests failed, a coroner kept digging and finally discovered cychlorphine, a new, highly potent synthetic drug spreading rapidly throughout the nation’s street supply.

April is National Stress Awareness Month. Parents are one of many groups to experience stress, but their mental health has ramifications "not only for the health of children but also for the health of society," former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy writes.

In California, peer support specialists provide valuable mentorship and emotional support — grounded in hard-earned personal experience.

Ten years after he warned about the impact of email and instant messaging on our ability to focus, author and professor Cal Newport says “I think we’re rapidly losing the ability to think deeply at all."

A new report reveals the LA homeless shelter system is failing to meet its targets, with nearly 60% of residents returning to the streets. bit.ly/4tUsaho

Instead of planning for freedom, Allen Burnett focused on finding purpose within the prison walls. That choice set him on a path that would reshape not only his life but the lives of countless others.

Owning cell phones at a younger age, eating ultraprocessed food, and the crumbling of family bonds are largely to blame for the youth mental health crisis in wealthier countries, says founder and chief scientist Tara Thiagarajan.

Over the past 20 years, states have shuttered their youth prisons and stopped prosecuting kids as adults. A new book tells the story of how a coalition of parents, activists, and prison officials brought a destructive institution to its knees.

Doctors say newly postpartum people need medical care, sleep and the ability to rely on friends and family for help. Immigration crackdowns have made that support impossible.

As Donald Trump posted unhinged rants – using words that are almost the definition of genocide – members of Congress, columnists and even Marjorie Taylor Greene called for using the 25th amendment to declare him mentally incompetent and remove him from power.

Researchers have found that practicing disposing things in virtual reality may make a difference for those experiencing hoarding disorder.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is advocating for state laws to divert people with mental illness from jail and into treatment, highlighting Florida’s Tristin Murphy Act as a national model.

More than 19 million Americans live with both a serious mental illness and substance use disorder. Few programs serve them. Even fewer serve those over 55. Two unique homes in San Francisco do.

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Tuesday that a Colorado ban on conversion therapy for youth violates the free speech rights of a Christian counselor, clearing the way for a practice that goes against the recommendations of every major medical association in the country.

Since 2001, the Nurse-Family Partnership program has been pairing mothers-to-be in Philadelphia with a visiting nurse who makes house calls, starting in the second trimester of pregnancy.

A new Hopelab report finds online support is vital to the mental health of rural youth.

Psychology professor Chris Moore explores the difference between guilt and shame, revealing how healthy guilt can motivate healing, repair relationships, and drive restorative justice.

Changes to federal law allow Medicaid to provide health and other services to people exiting prisons. California and some other states are making use of the program, but expansion efforts will depend on the Trump administration.

Environmental changes impacting beehives compound the disconnection the Ogiek community has experienced and “made them feel like they are not OK, weak in the bodies, weak in the mind.”

Dr. Bandy Lee urges Americans to protest by marching on No Kings Day to the White House and state capitols and refusing to leave.

Experts say more preventive care is needed to combat the growing mental health crisis affecting college students.

Congresswoman Lateefah Simon, leaders of the Young Women’s Freedom Center and MindSite News explored how the Center is helping to build a healing community and developing the potential and power of young women as community leaders and change-makers. bit.ly/4lWRaBU

Despite broad bipartisan support for policy intervention to offer unpaid family caregivers relief, there is currently no federal assistance, and only a handful of states offer small tax credits or paid leave to caregivers, leaving most of them to manage on their own. bit.ly/4lLT4oB

Ohio nonprofit leader Sudarshan Pyakurel on third country relocation and other immigration policies that retraumatize highly vulnerable Bhutanese refugees in the U.S. bit.ly/47ksahK

Since Trump’s return to office, the strained staffing situation within the Department of Veterans Affairs is now “at a breaking point.”

A Danish program, “One of Us,” invites “ambassadors” to share their stories and combat stereotypes about mental illness.

The explosion in digital gambling is undermining both finances and mental health, especially among young people.

Forced to live under the Taliban’s strict patriarchal rules, Afghan families with no fathers or sons turn to girls to meet basic needs.

Developmental psychologist Emily Little argues that babywearing promotes secure attachment and better parental mental health.