mental health

A state committee has been investigating the crisis of parents who relinquish kids when they can't get adequate mental health treatment.

Opinion: Family preservation is not the problem, but when services are piecemeal, under-resourced or lack timely oversight, children remain at risk.

Under a court settlement, New York must now guarantee Medicaid-eligible children access to timely mental health services in their own communities.

For two years, scholar Katie Gibson went inside settings where decisions to medicate foster youth are made.

An expansion of services comes amid growing uncertainty for groups serving Minnesota’s homeless youth population.

Four months after The Imprint asked for data on adoptees sent out of state for residential care, officials abruptly halted the practice.

Michigan jurists call on lawmakers to protect parents from neglect accusations when they're unable to manage teens’ mental health crises.

The day Darren was released from prison, he checked his phone and found a message that changed everything.

The documentary “Recovering Innocence,” made almost entirely by foster youth, explores the risks of psych meds — and alternative ways to heal.