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COVID anniversary: 200,000 parents died. Indian kids lost the most

Opioid Orphans: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Left Behind

Deportation Threats Fuel Immigrant Children's Anxiety

Police Often Use Force on Black People During 911 Crisis Calls - MindSite News

Photoshopped Images, Scientific Fraud Derail Quest for Alzheimer’s Treatments - MindSite News

Miami Community Responders Work to Ease Mental Health Crises - MindSite News

Black kids overdiagnosed with "oppositional defiant disorder" - MindSite News

Childhood Grief: Helping Kids of Parents Killed by Violence - MindSite News

Trump May Make It Harder for You to Get Mental Health Coverage - MindSite News

Grieving a Loved One Killed by Police In a Mental Health Crisis - MindSite News

Fury rises over health claim denials - MindSite News

The Return of Trump: What Does it Mean for Mental Health Policy and Advocacy? A Live Discussion - MindSite News

Series Reveals the Secrets Behind the Stanford Prison Experiment - MindSite News

ADHD boosts risk of criminal behavior but goes untreated in prison - MindSite News

More Mentally Ill People Languish in Jail Than We Thought. - MindSite News

A DIY grief group for men who lost a child - MindSite News

Dissociative Identity Disorder Through the Ages - MindSite News

School Shooting: Beyond Thoughts & Prayers Is Mental Health - MindSite News

Why Did Dissociative Identity Disorder Explode on TikTok? - MindSite News

In Chicago, Immigrants Struggle with Their Mental Health - MindSite News

Only Two Percent of Psychiatrists are Black, Leading Some to Pursue Creative Solutions to Fill the Void - MindSite News

Troubled Teen Industry Is ‘Taxpayer-Funded Child Abuse,’ Senate Report and Paris Hilton Say. Where Are the Government Regulators? - MindSite News

Treatment not Trauma: Transforming Mental Health in Chicago - MindSite News

Mental health giving rises a bit but still too low - MindSite News

More Mentally Ill People Languish in Jail Than We Thought. - MindSite News

Investigating the troubled teen industry: Residential treatment's shocking record of abuseInvestigating the Troubled Teen Industry: Behind the Story - MindSite News

How Paris Hilton and Other Survivors of the Troubled Teen Industry Unleashed a Movement - MindSite News

A San Francisco Program Helps Older People Manage Their Hoarding Behavior – and Stay Housed - MindSite News

Building Hope in Philadelphia Neighborhoods Under Siege - MindSite News

California Program Trains Undocumented Residents to Become Therapists and Serve Those in the Shadows   - MindSite News

In Detroit, Arab and Muslim Communities Grapple to Heal from Collective Trauma - MindSite News

In Puerto Rico, Calling 911 in a Mental Health Crisis Can Get You Tased - MindSite News

VA Bureaucracy has Undermined the Vet Centers, Damaging a Peer Counseling Jewel, Investigation Finds - MindSite News

The Last Days of Little Eddie - MindSite News & The Prison Journalism Project

Boom! Bang! Tales From a Cell Below ‘The Crazy Unit’ - MindSite News & Prison Journalism Project

Israel Palestine Mental Health Series - MindSite News

Supreme Court: Nothing Cruel or Unusual About 3 Years of Isolation - MindSite News

Tribute to Rosalynn Carter, a Tireless Voice for Mental Health - MindSite News

California Prisons Fail to Uphold Transgender Rights Despite State Law - MindSite News

Colorado Librarian Fired for Resisting Censorship Wins $250,000 Settlement - MindSite News

‘She Made Me Feel Seen and Heard.’ Black Doulas Offer Support That Can Help Mom & Improve Birth Outcomes - MindSite News

Constant Fear, Death All Around: A Palestinian Psychologist Is Distraught For Her Family and the Impact of War on Gaza’s Children - MindSite News

911 Call-Takers Are Demoralized, Overwhelmed and Dealing With Their Own Mental Health Woes - MindSite News

Hua Hsu's Tender Elegy to a Lost Friend Resonates - MindSite News

On 60th Anniversary of JFK’s Mental Health Law, Another Kennedy Convenes Advocates to Build a Movement - MindSite News

Deadly Consequences: When Police Response to Mental Health Calls in New Hampshire Proves Fatal - MindSite News

Surviving the Tiger Pit: How a Journalist's Family Story Pushed Her to Report on a Failed Mental Health System - MindSite News

David Bartley Stepped Back from the Precipice and Now He Helps Others Do the Same - MindSite News

Families Have High Hopes for Gavin Newsom’s CARE Courts. Providers Want to Lower Expectations - MindSite News

Lockdowns, the New Prison Management Tool - MindSite News

Federal Appeals Court Revives Legal Battle for Health Insurance Parity - MindSite News

A Camp for Japan’s Social Recluses - MindSite News

Navigating the Waves - MindSite News

Florida’s Baker Act Has Seized Kids & Adults for Forced Mental Health Holds Almost 2 Million Times in Past Decade. Are Advocates Finally Forcing Change? - MindSite News

The Dental-Mental Connection: A Clinic in Oakland’s Chinatown Brings Mental Health Care to Dental Patients - MindSite News

For Transgender Youth, Conversion Therapy Brings Greater Suicide Risk Than Hormone Treatment, Researchers Say - MindSite News

As New York Boosts Residential Treatment, Regulators Turn a Blind Eye to Conditions - MindSite News

New York Let Residences for Kids With Serious Mental Health Problems Vanish. Desperate Families Call the Cops Instead. - MindSite News

Spare the Child: Spanking Harms Both Children and Caregivers - MindSite News

‘A lifesaving tool’: California’s new mental health crisis line sees a surge in calls - MindSite News

Their families said they needed mental health treatment. Mississippi officials threw them in jail - MindSite News

Diagnosis: Injustice. The Mental Health & Criminal Justice Report - MindSite News July 2023

Biden Announces New Rules to Put Teeth into Mental-Health Parity Legislation  - MindSite News

133 Degress and No AC: Kids at Angola Prison Kept in Potentially Deadly Heat - MindSite News

What actually happens in WA when someone’s not competent to stand trial - MindSite News

Buyer, Be Aware:  An Inside Look at Four Online Grief Counseling Certificate Programs - MindSite News

The puzzling rise of defendants too sick to stand trial in WA - MindSite News

The Confess Project: Barbers Help Black Men Talk About Mental Health - MindSite News

Proposed Law Would Reduce Barriers to Mental Health Care for California Youth - MindSite News

Advocates Call for 911 Changes. Police Have Mixed Feelings. - MindSite News

Why mental health providers say Medi-Cal’s latest reform may force them to cut services - MindSite News

Few People Know About the 988 Lifeline – and Many Who Do Fear Calling it Will Lead to a Police Response - MindSite News

The Power of Experience: Philadelphia Mayoral Candidate David Oh on Trauma and Forgiveness - MindSite News

Climate Change Can Harm the Mental Health of Older Adults - MindSite News

Unpacking a ‘Watershed’ Legal Agreement to Improve Conditions for Mentally Ill People in L.A. County Jails - MindSite News

Eco-Anxiety: The Real Tsunami of Climate Change - MindSite News

Part Three | Ukraine Uses TV, Internet to Train People to Manage their Stress and Anxiety - MindSite News

Activist at 14, Burned Out by 26. Today, Emani Davis Teaches That to Change the World, You Must Also Take Care of Yourself - MindSite News

Ashwin Vasan, New York City's Doctor, on Trying to Fix a ‘Broken Mental Health System’ - MindSite News

Part Two | “Living under war tests the strength of the psyche and body” - MindSite News

Ukraine: Life During Wartime | Part One | ‘This Was Not a Dream’ - MindSite News

ChatGPT Can Channel the Stock Responses of a Therapist, But It Misses What Makes Us Human - MindSite News

From Fahrenheit 451 to Harry Potter, The Power of Fantasy Fiction for Youth Mental Health - MindSite News

Shootings, Lockdowns, Anxiety: Kids Are Not Alright – But They’re Working On It - MindSite News

Shame of a City, and a Nation - MindSite News

Breaking Away From Hate - MindSite News

Traveling Play Helps Miami High School Students Talk About Mental Health - MindSite News

One in Nine Arrests Are of People with Both Mental Illness and Addiction, New Study Finds - MindSite News

Teen Expert Lisa Damour Wants Us All to Embrace Sadness - MindSite News

Peer Court Keeps Youth Accountable, Removes Shame and Stigma - MindSite News

Students Weigh in on Idea of Taking ‘Mental Health Days’ from School - MindSite News

Where have all the mental health beds gone? - MindSite News

Therapy as Reparations: Working for Free Mental Health Access for Black Americans - MindSite News

One in Nine Arrests Are of People with Both Mental Illness and Addiction, New Study Finds - MindSite News

Can Income Reduce Mental Illness? - MindSite News

More than 12,000 Californians are getting cash from guaranteed income experiments - MindSite News

Texas’ shortage of mental health care professionals is getting worse

Prince Harry and His Decade of Magical Thinking - MindSite News

Pandemic's "Shocking" Toll on Girls - MindSite News

Biden Puts Mental Health, Suicide and the Trauma of Police Violence at Center of State of the Union Speech - MindSite News

Machine Gun Kelly on Gratitude - MindSite News

Immigrants in New York Cope with Grief after Deadly Border Crossings - MindSite News

Solutions Lab Spotlight: In New York, ‘Housing First’ Approach Helps Unhoused People Find Stability

Solutions Lab Spotlight: Can the Right Kind of Tech Help Address the Mental Health Crisis Among LGBTQ+ Youth?

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Illinois is Getting Better at Answering Calls to the Suicide Crisis Line. Will Chicago’s South Side Be Left Behind? - MindSite News

Cowgirl Boots, Anxious Nights: Transgender Youth and Families Grapple with Hostile Legislation – and Sky-High Rates of Mental Illness - MindSite News

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Expert Committee Slams Chicago Detention Center for Isolating Youth, Calls for its Closure - MindSite News

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Abortion bans will bring psychological harms – here’s what research shows will happen in post-Roe America - MindSite News

Abortion Denials Can Cause Mental Health Problems for Mothers and Children: ‘It's a Burden They Both Carry Forever’ - MindSite News

Blaming Mass Shootings on “Mental Illness” Is Harmful and Misguided - MindSite News

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Social Media Posts Criticize the 988 Suicide Hotline for Calling Police. Here’s What You Need to Know - MindSite News

New Poll Shows Strong Support for Non-Police Crisis Response - MindSite News

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Dial 988: California’s new mental health crisis hotline debuts - MindSite News

Abortion Denials Can Cause Mental Health Problems for Mothers and Children: ‘It's a Burden They Both Carry Forever’ - MindSite News

Michael Pollan Docuseries Explores the World of Psychedelics - MindSite News

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When Gayness was a Crime and a Mental Illness: One Man’s Journey from Involuntary Confinement to Pride - MindSite News

New York Let Residences for Kids With Serious Mental Health Problems Vanish. Desperate Families Call the Cops Instead. - MindSite News

As youth mental health crisis rages, Michigan schools work to bolster students’ sense of connection  - MindSite News

To Prevent Mass Shootings, Stop Hunting for Motive, Start Investigating Shooters' History of Childhood Adversity - MindSite News

Inmate shuffle: How California bounces around its mentally ill prisoners - MindSite News

As youth mental health crisis rages, Michigan schools work to bolster students’ sense of connection 

Sam Quinones on How Fentanyl and Meth Hijacked Our Country - MindSite News

Safe sites for drug use? - MindSite News

Young Advocates Take the Lead to Curb Campus Suicide - MindSite News

Naomi Judd’s death shines a light on high rates of suicide among seniors

Turning Red: A Quirky Coming-of-Age Tale of Breaking Through Intergenerational Pain - MindSite News

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OCD: From Memoirs to Big Screen, Misunderstood Mental Illness Finally Gets Its Due - MindSite News

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What’s Behind the Protests Against Schools Trying to Boost Kids’ Mental Health? - MindSite News

The Confess Project: Barbers Help Black Men Talk About Mental Health - MindSite News

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What’s Behind the Protests Against Schools Trying to Boost Kids’ Mental Health? - MindSite News

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A family’s struggle to care for their son’s autism reveals the gaps in mental health parity laws

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The Old Asylum Is Gone: Today A Mental Health System Serves All (For Now)

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