After losing her daughter to suicide, a mother is doing what she can to use this year’s legislative session to create change.

Two thirds of nurses experiencing mental health issues are not receiving treatment. Some states are pushing for legislation ...

Assemblymember Damon Connolly has introduced legislation intended to curtail barriers to emergency mental health treatment.

Caroline Ouko, the mother of Irvo Otieno is putting her support behind a piece of legislation that she says could have helped saved him from being sent to jail and his eventual death.

And lingering bias in the healthcare system against mental health services — and patients — may also be at play. Federal and ...

Diane Watts was Jamie’s community mental health worker and had known him for a long time. She told the inquest she had ...

United States Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) reintroduced the Supporting and Treating Officers ...

A new year means new laws that have gone into effect here in Illinois. Governor J.B. Pritzker said that "For thousands of Illinoisans, the reforms in this bill will mean the difference between ...