Mental Health

Jurors awarded $8.3 million to the family of Cedric Lofton, a foster youth who died after he was held in a face-down restraint at a Wichita correctional facility.

The Imprint’s investigation looked at policies in all 50 states on their use of psychotropic drugs in foster care.

Barry Cooper is founder of the BRO Experience, a Brooklyn-based organization that uses cognitive behavioral therapy at the center of its approach to mental health support for young men of color.

On Monday, a panel of Georgia lawmakers met with child welfare workers, mental health providers and others to discuss the issue of kids left in psychiatric care.

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.

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

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