Mental Health: 10 Ways to Help

Keep Them Safe: Ask if they've thought about a plan and remove access to lethal means of self-harm. Normalize: The more information that gets shared, the less stigma there is about mental health, and ... Read More

New York announces $33 million for mental health services. Here's how it will be used

Gov. Hochul secures funding for New Yorkers struggling with mental illness and involved in the criminal justice system. Read More

Leading Mental Health Organizations Applaud Strengthening of Mental Health and Substance Use Access in Medicaid Under Historic New Rules

The nation’s leading mental health organizations applaud the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) newly finalized rules that will help ensure people with mental health and substance use ... Read More

Mental illness in America costs $282 billion each year, study shows

America's mental health woes essentially serve as an annual economic downturn for the nation, a new study says. Mental illness costs the U.S. economy $282 billion every year, equivalent to the average ... Read More

Pilots, and airlines, are struggling with mental health. Here's what they're doing to help

Pilots need to maintain mental and physical well-being to fly and obtain a medical certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration, undergoing a medical exam with an aviation medical examiner ... Read More

10 ideas to help solve addiction, mental health crisis in NJ

Streamline Data Collection to be shared across agencies and with providers. This includes the history of substance abuse, involuntary holds, Narcan interventions, and drug interaction data. NJ SAMS is ... Read More

A Portland couple tried everything to get their son mental health treatment. Then, he killed his mother

Hunter Graham says his family's tragedy is evidence of Oregon's flawed mental health system, which waits for someone to commit a crime before mandating treatment. Read More

New NAMI affiliate aims to help families dealing with mental health issues on the Outer Banks

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — There are few affiliates of the National Alliance on Mental Illness or NAMI in Eastern North Carolina and until this week that included the Outer Banks. Organizers are hosting ... Read More

Chesapeake mental health partnership helps uninsured and underinsured in Hampton Roads get help

The nonprofit Chesapeake Care Clinic, founded by Montero, and the internationally renowned Montero Medical Missions recently entered into a collaboration with United Community Solutions, a ... Read More

In WA, it might soon be easier to get mental health help over the phone

The Mental Health Project ... ear or can help schedule them for a next-day appointment. The phone line is accessible to people who speak Spanish, and interpreter services are available in more than ... Read More

Who has the best mullet? Cast a vote, help foundation raise mental health awareness

The Miles Jeffrey Roberts Foundation is putting on its first-ever Mullet for Miles event as a way to support mental health with the help of Jude Carlson, a sophomore and lacrosse player at Skyline ... Read More

Texas is struggling to diversify its mental health workforce as the state becomes less white

More than 40% of the state’s population is Hispanic, but its mental health provider population is more than 80% white. Read More