Children’s Mental Health

Four young adults speak to The Imprint about how psychotropic medication use affected their tumultuous childhoods in Los Angeles County.

New data offers rare insight into a long-running national public health concern: the frequent and sometimes haphazard prescribing of psychiatric drugs to foster youth. Part II of an ongoing series.

Trump policy decisions targeting transgender youth have led to an escalating mental health crisis, experts and advocates say. 

On this week’s episode we go deep on one headline: a recent Senate Finance Committee hearing in which Chairman Ron Wyden called the residential care business an inherently flawed model that intentionally puts children in unsafe situations.

In Oakland, where access to mental health care is scarce, coaches may be a trusted resource for Black and Latino children and teens.

Dr. Monique Mitchell describes the harms and grief described to her by youth who experience foster care and family separation.

By Ria Babaria and Fiona Lu Should income status determine the mental health care that youth receive? Of course not. And in California, there is finally legislation to prevent this.  Assembly Bill 665, passed by the state Legislature, would ensure all Medi-Cal youth have equal access to vital mental health counseling and support.

A proposal that would have increased the number of young Californians receiving mental health care died quietly in the Legislature.

After struggling to get a psychiatric diagnosis for their teen daughter, a New York family is making progress with multisystemic therapy