Mental Health

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.

See how each state child welfare agency monitors use of psych meds for its children and youth in government custody.

Therapists and former foster youth in California talk about what works to support healing — beyond psych meds.

Oppositional Defiant Disorder — the "bad kid" diagnosis — "greases the school-to-prison pipeline," a California psychiatrist says.

From a small station in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights, 18-year-old Kennia Camacho talks with teens about anxiety, stress and depression.

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