North Carolina is launching a $20 million pilot program to take law enforcement personnel out of the process of transporting ...

Sheriff Donna Buckley joined a chorus of voices displeased with the potential Pocasset Mental Health Center closure.

The West St. Paul center serves adults in need of mental health care, services, treatment and short-term residency at no cost ...

For years, states strictly limited the amount of time people could be institutionalized. With homelessness rising, some policymakers want to do more.

An updated California law allows involuntary psychiatric holds for people with severe substance use disorders. San Diego ...

The public-private partnership comes after a string of violent patient outbursts at the hospital over the past two years.

A judge determined Jonathan Alas, 29, was suffering from psychotic symptoms that impaired his sense of reality when he killed ...

Unless the funding challenges seen in Lynnwood — and at similar facilities in Pierce County — are solved, it could put the ...

Epic Health has expanded its services into Chatham with the opening of a new facility dedicated to supporting adult males ...

The settlement resolves a lawsuit filed two years ago by three Iowa children, who were represented by three advocacy groups, ...

A $200 million regional homelessness project backed by the resort industry and partially funded by taxpayers may disrupt ...

The bill would abolish the Department of Mental Health and Substance Use Services and put all of those services in the hands ...