As the COVID-19 pandemic drove a kids mental health crisis, lawmakers passed three sweeping bills containing dozens of ...

U.S. Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) said access to mental health services is vital for K-12 students’ well-being and academic ...

When lawmakers, mayors, psychiatrists and mental health advocates gathered last month to unveil a bill that would “enact major changes to California’s behavioral health law,” they put into ...

Participation in the peer support networks would be confidential so officers would not have to worry that what they say will ...

Unfortunately, there is a gap in suicide prevention training for mental health providers. To meet this need, I introduced legislation in 2014 to require all mental health professionals to receive ...

Learn more. WASHINGTON — Lawmakers hope to produce legislation to address growing mental health and substance use needs this year as deadlines approach, but the issue is competing for attention ...

Last week, the Senate Finance Committee introduced a draft of legislation that would aim to address the mental health care shortage. The bill has been deemed by mental health experts a significant ...

For kids that do require hospital care, the new legislation also lifts a moratorium on new mental health beds for the next five years, paving the way for Children's Minnesota to open it's long ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds signs mental health legislation into law, surrounded by legislators and advocates Families of loved ones who have suffered and died from mental illness gathered in the statehouse ...

Despite complying with treatment, she was assessed by a clinician and then detained under the Mental Health Act. Georgie described how both she and her parents objected – concerns that fell on ...