July 5, 2017

New Indiana Laws Affect Kids and Mental Health

As kids get ready to head back to school, teachers aren't just focused on traditional curriculum. This year, there is a mental health focus. Source: New […]
June 25, 2017

Pride in Mental Health: Visibility

This week I had the privilege of speaking with experts, activists, and advocates about the various mental health needs we have in the LGBTQ communities, at […]
June 19, 2017

Why Black Mental Health Literacy Matters

“Confronting chronic emotional pain in Black life is the terrain of political resistance we must now explore, the new revolutionary frontier—” -bell hooks Black psychologists, psychiatrists, […]
June 19, 2017

6 signs your grown up child might be suffering with addiction

This summer, thousands of university and college students up and down the country will be returning home following the end of another academic year – an […]
June 10, 2017

Asking a distressed person about suicide may help save a life

Mental Health First Aid teaches what to do when you come upon someone having a rough time. Youth Mental Health First Aid doesn't train people to […]
June 2, 2017

The Prison System is Designed to Ignore Mental Illness

Negligence, delays in diagnosis, and flat-out abuse are rampant. Source: The Prison System is Designed to Ignore Mental Illness
June 1, 2017

It’s time to recognize mental health as essential to physical health

Source: It’s time to recognize mental health as essential to physical health
June 1, 2017

Integrating spirituality, clinical care effective for mental health

SAN DIEGO — Preliminary findings presented at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting indicated significant need and impact of a program that integrated spirituality into psychiatric […]
August 6, 2016

Will Presidential Candidates Oppose Prosecuting Children As Adults?

On any given night in America, more than 5,000 children are held in adult jails and prisons. Youth offenders held in adult prisons receive the lowest […]