Amy Wethington couldn’t sleep Monday night after hearing story after story from parents with children who had been bullied in the Tipton School District and in the Tipton community.

The settlement resolves a lawsuit filed two years ago by three Iowa children, who were represented by three advocacy groups, ...

The state of Iowa has agreed to change how it provides mental health services to children on Medicaid. This action stems from a settlement agreement following a class action lawsuit filed in 2023.

DES MOINES — Iowa’s health agency pledged to ensure the delivery of home and community-based services to the state’s most vulnerable children with mental and behavioral health care needs ...

The involved deputy sustained minor injuries and was taken to Indiana University Tipton Hospital for medical evaluation. He has since been treated and released. The occupants of the second vehicle ...

Iowa will take ... an institution or a hospital that's scary and they don't know anyone," Johnson said. "They get to stay with the people that love them, and grow up with mental health services ...

Young and in Crisis is the Register’s occasional series exploring Iowa's youth mental health crisis ... and family services at Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines.

"People experiencing severe mental illness and accessing hospital-based mental health care have significantly shorter life expectancies, largely due to preventable physical health conditions such ...